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.PAUL REDDICK
SUGAR BIRD
Vanessa Collier
Meeting My Shadow
Jonn Del Toro Richardson
Tengo Blues
THE BOTTOMS UP BLUES GANG
HANDLE IT
JAMES BLOOD ULMER
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Georgie Bonds
Hit It Hard
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