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.
SCOTT RAMMINGER
DO WHAT YOUR HEART SAYS TO
DEVON ALLMAN
TURQUOISE
Lisa Mann
Hard Times, Bad Decisions
FUNKTION
Funk Prelude
JOHNNY RAWLS
WAITING FOR THE TRAIN
WATERMELON SLIM & THE WORKERS
BULL GOOSE ROOSTER
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