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
JENNI MULDAUR
DEAREST DARLIN'
The City Boy Allstars
Blinded By The Night
COLIN JAMES
MILES TO GO
Anthony Geraci And The Boston Blues All-
Fifty Shades Of Blue
MARION JAMES
Northside Soul
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