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.BETTE SMITH
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE BETTE
ANTHONY GERACI
DAYDREAMS IN BLUE
MOLLIE O'BRIEN AND RICH MOORE
Love Runner
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Live in 1967 vol. 2
Minmae
835
TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS
KILLIN' IT LIVE
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