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.ANA POPOVIC
Unconditional
MAC ARNOLD
Mac Arnold's Blues Revival; Live at the Grey Eagle
Adrienne Fenemor's Kiwi Blue
Blues Jam
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS
THE NIGHTHAWKS
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
David Egan
You Don't Know Your Mind
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