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.Andy T - Nick Nixon Band
Numbers Man
GRACE ASKEW
Until They Lay Me Down to Rest
THE IGUANAS
If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times
JOHNNY RAWLS
WAITING FOR THE TRAIN
LIZ MANDEVILLE
CLARKSDALE
TAJ MAHAL
MAESTRO
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