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.
MONSTER MIKE WELCH AND MIKE LEDBETTER
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
MARKUS JAMES
Snakeskin Violin
LUBRIPHONIC
Soul Solution
BETTE SMITH
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE BETTE
MINGO FISHTRAP
ON TIME
ANNIKA CHAMBERS & THE HOUSTON ALL-STARS
Making My Mark
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