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.GRANDPA ELLIOT
Sugar Sweet
LOS LONELY BOYS
ROCKPANGA
CHICKENBONE SLIM
THE BIG BEAT
Rob Paparozzi And The Ed Palermo Big Band
Electric Butter
Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown
Goin' To The Delta
JOHNNY MOELLER
BLOO GA LOO
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