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.
"Big" Al Dorn & The Blues Howlers
They Call Me Big Al
ELVIN BISHOP
ELVIN BISHOP'S BIG FUN TRIO
ERNIE HAWKINS
Whinin' Boy
JOHN-ALEX MASON
JOOK JOINT THUNDERCLAP
VARIOUS- TRIBUTE TO DOUG SAHM
SAVE YOUR SOUL
BRAD VICKERS & HIS VESTAPOLITANS
Traveling Fool
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