This month’s recommended listening by John Valenteyn, host of Let The Good Times Roll on ciut.fm, 89.5 and CD reviewer for Maple Blues. You can drop by and say hello to John at the blues Department of HMV on Yonge Street

Al Lerman Crowe River Blues (Self)*

Guitar Mikey & The Real Thing Out of the Box (Earwig)*

Bill King Gloryland (7 Arts)*

Janiva Magness Stronger For It (Alligator/Fontana North)

Conor Gains Band The Junction Sessions (Self)*

David Essig Rolling Fork To Gallows Point (Watershed)*

Mike DeWay Turbulence (Bluesenville)*

Heritage Blues Orchestra And Still I Rise (Raisiní Music)

Dan Livingstone & The Griffintown Jug Addicts (Self)*

Otis Taylor Contraband (Telarc)

Richard Carr Tell Everybody (Iguane)*

Big James The Big Payback (Blind Pig/Stony Plain)

Contino Back Porch Dogma (Blind Pig/Stony Plain)

Charley Patton Reborn & Remastered (Rough Guide/Select)

Bo Carter & The Mississippi Sheiks (JSP)

Johnny Otis Show Vol. 2 Up With The Show (Ace)

Farewell Milwaukee When It Sinks In (Self)

Mac Arnold’s Blues Revival Live at the Grey Eagle (Vizztone)

Donna Grantis Electric Band Suites (Diamond Gem)*

Volker Strifler Let The Music Rise (Vizztone)