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.
DICKY JAMES AND THE BLUE FLAMES
Hard Rain
Maria Muldaur
Naughty, Bawdy & Blue
The Living History Band
Chicago Blues: A Living History
JAMES HARMAN
FINE PRINT
BIG AL AND THE HEAVYWEIGHTS
WORLD FULL OF TROUBLE
Georgie Bonds
Stepping Into Time
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