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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.
Austin Hanks
Alabastard
AL BASILE
MID-CENTURY MODERN
J.C. SMITH BAND
DEFINING COOL
JOYANN PARKER
HARD TO LOVE
OMAR KENT DYKES WITH JIMMIE VAUGHAN
ON THE JIMMY REED HIGHWAY
RANDY McALLISTER AND THE SCRAPPIEST BAND IN THE MOTHERLAND
PAPERBAG SALVATION
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