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.VARIOUS
Louisiana Swamp Stomp
JOYANN PARKER
OUT OF THE DARK
LIL' CLIFF & THE CLIFFHANGERS
THE LOVIN' KIND
JOHN SCOFIELD
PIETY STREET
Terry Robb
Cool On The Bloom
TERESA JAMES & THE RHYTHM TRAMPS
HERE IN BABYLON
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