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.SHEMEKIA COPELAND
AMERICA'S CHILD
RORY BLOCK
A WOMAN'S SOUL
HANS THEESSINK & TERRY EVANS featuring RY COODER
DELTA TIME
The Goddess Lakshmi
Dreaming
BRYAN LEE
PLAY ONE FOR ME
HERITAGE BLUES ORCHESTRA
AND STILL I RISE
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