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.THE HOLMES BROTHERS
FEED MY SOUL
GREGG ALLMAN
LOW COUNTRY BLUES
ALICE RUSSELL
Pot of Gold
THE CLAUDETTES
DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM
RORY BLOCK
HARD LUCK CHILD- A TRIBUTE TO SKIP JAMES
GRACE ASKEW
Until They Lay Me Down to Rest
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