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.
CHRISTINE OHLMAN & REBEL MONTEZ
THE DEEP END
PETE ANDERSON
BIRDS ABOVE GUITARLAND
JAMIE LIDELL
Compass
Williams Wayne & Isaak
Big City Back Country Blues
Sugar King James and the Chess Masters
Tru Blu Mud - A Tribute To Muddy Waters
Tommy Castro
Painkiller
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