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.
ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE
Deep Down in the Mud
ELVIN BISHOP
ELVIN BISHOP'S BIG FUN TRIO
THE KNICKERBOCKER ALL-STARS
TEXAS RHODY BLUES
J.C. SMITH BAND
DEFINING COOL
LAURIE MORVAN
GRAVITY
ANDERS OSBORNE
Three Free Amigos
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