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.
JOE BONAMASSA
Dust Bowl
TAD ROBINSON
BACK IN STYLE
LYNWOOD SLIM & THE IGOR PRAD0 BAND
BRAZILIAN KICKS
MARK T SMALL
Smokin' Blues
REVEREND FREAKCHILD
Chaos and Country Blues (The Best of Reverend Freakchild)
Freekbass and the Bump Assembly
Cincinnati
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