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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.
ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE
Deep Down in the Mud
WATERMELON SLIM
TRAVELING MAN
ROOMFUL OF BLUES
45 LIVE
BILLY BOY ARNOLD
THE BLUES SOUL OF BILLY BOY ARNOLD
HANS THEESSINK
SLOW TRAIN
MINGO FISHTRAP
ON TIME
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