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.
JO HARMAN
PEOPLE WE BECOME
THE TWISTERS
After the Storm
CEDRIC BURNSIDE AND LIGHTNIN’ MALCOLM -
2 MAN WRECKING CREW
GARY CLARK, JR.
The Bright Lights EP
LIZ MANDEVILLE
HEART 'O' CHICAGO
THE HOMEMADE JAMZ BLUES BAND
THE GAME
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