Chicago, IL (Top40 Charts/ Raisin' Music) Raisin'
Music is proud to announce that
Chicago Blues: A Living History; The evolution Continues will be available in the US on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 via RED Distribution. This deluxe, two CD set follows the award-winning/Grammy-nominated
Chicago Blues: A Living History (2009).
The first album was an unprecedented collaboration between Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell and
Carlos Johnson, inheritors all of the
Chicago Blues tradition.
Chicago Blues: A Living History; The evolution Continues brings these legends, supported once again by The Living History Band, back for a second helping of soul-stirring
Chicago blues and features very special guests
Buddy Guy,
James Cotton, Magic Slim, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Mike Avery and Zora Young.
Produced by Raisin' Music's Larry Skoller and recorded by Blaise Barton at Chicago's JoyRide Studios,
Chicago Blues: A Living History; The evolution Continues covers the early piano-driven
Chicago Blues of the 1940s through to the classic electric-guitar-and-harmonica-driven period of the 1950s. This period laid the foundation for the British Invasion and continues to inform rock and pop music as we know it today.
Chicago Blues: A Living History; The evolution Continues is packaged in an eight panel Digipak designed by Larry Kazal, and includes a 32-page booklet with detailed liner notes and intimate photography by Paul Natkin and Brad Meese. Track highlights include a Billy Boy Arnold led cover of the Lonnie Johnson classic "He's a
Jelly Roll Baker," John Primer's take on the Muddy Waters'-penned "Canary Bird,"
James Cotton's powerful harmonica on seminal rock n' roll cut "Rocket 88" and
Buddy Guy's soulful vocal and trademark guitar on Eurreal Montgomery's "First Time I Met the Blues."
Chicago Blues: A Living History is already recognized as the greatest tribute of our time to the
Chicago Blues. With this new release, the group solidifies their place in the history of the music and builds on the tribute and its goal to keep the blues alive and well.
