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.
Steve Cropper
Dedicated
JON CLEARY
OCCAPELLA!
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
TAKE THE HIGH ROAD
THE CLAUDETTES
DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM
THE MIGHTY MOJO PROPHETS
FLYIN' HOME FROM MEMPHIS
ALBERT COLLINS
LIVE IN MONTREUX, 1992
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