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.
MAC ARNOLD
Mac Arnold's Blues Revival; Live at the Grey Eagle
Jim Gustin & Truth Jones
Memphis
ALBERT COLLINS
LIVE IN MONTREUX, 1992
JOHNNY AND THE MoTONES
NOTHIN' TO LOSE
CHRIS HARPER
Four Aces And A Harp
Blind Lemon Pledge
Pledge Drive
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