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.MARION JAMES
Northside Soul
ALICE RUSSELL
Pot of Gold
REVEREND FREAKCHILD
Chaos and Country Blues (The Best of Reverend Freakchild)
GURF MORLIX
Gurf Morlix Finds the Present Tense
TAD ROBINSON
BACK IN STYLE
JIMMY BURNS BAND
Stuck In The Middle
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