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.HANS THEESSINK
SLOW TRAIN
J.C. SMITH BAND
DEFINING COOL
Shemekia Copeland
Outskirts Of Love
LISA CEE
My Turn
NICK MOSS & THE FLIPTOPS
PLAY IT 'TIL TOMORROW
KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE
Rollin' With The Blues Boss
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