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.
TERESA JAMES & THE RHYTHM TRAMPS
HERE IN BABYLON
Lazy Genius
Strange Plains, Dark Grooves.
RONNIE EARL AND THE BROADCASTERS
SPREAD THE LOVE
ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE
Electric Wire Hustle
Glen David Andrews
Redemttion
TOMMY CASTRO & THE PAINKILLERS
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
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