2009-05-11
This looks like a greatest hits compilation but it’s actually a retrospective performed by a modern Chicago collective calling themselves The Living History Band. They’re joined by 4 of Chicago’s great blues traditionalists – harp masters Billy Boy Arnold and Billy Branch; and guitarists Lurrie Bell and John Primer. Extensive liners explain the significance of the honored artists, none of whom, it could be pointed out, were born north of the Mason-Dixon.BIG AL JANO
Some of My Best Friends Have the Blues
JOHN NEMETH
Name the Day
RONNIE EARL AND THE BROADCASTERS
MAXWELL STREET
Various Artists -
The Champions of R&B
RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS
YOU ASKED FOR IT..LIVE
JOHN NEMETH
LOVE ME TONIGHT
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