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.KYLE HENDERSON
Brand New Chance
VANESSA COLLIER
HEART ON THE LINE
GRACE ASKEW
Until They Lay Me Down to Rest
PATRICK SWEANY
Every Hour Is a Dollar Gone
NICK MOSS BAND FEATURING DENNIS GRUENLING
THE HIGH COST OF LOW LIVING
Mark May Band And The Soul Satyr Horns
Blues Heaven
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