This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail Twitter: @bwheelerglobe

Mavis Staples Sad and Beautiful World Anti-

*JP LeBlanc All In My Blood/ Je l’ai dans le sang Acadian Connection

*Miss Emily The Medicine Gypsy Soul

Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues The Blues Is My Biography Rosa’s Lounge

Sean McDonald Have Mercy! independent

Robert Finley Hallelujah! Don’t Let the Devil Fool Ya Easy Eye Sound

John Primer Grown in Mississippi Blues House

Kyle Rowland Not Holding Back! independent

Lonnie Mack Live in Louisville 1992 Last Music Co.

Alastair Greene Live in Sin City Ruf

Maria Muldaur One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey Album Nola Blue

Wailin’ Walker Blues Lightnin’ Jitterbug

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Hard Road Red Zero

Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames Bluesin’ Through The Years Delmark

*Blue Moon Marquee and Northern Cree Get Your Feathers Ready independent

Pierre Lacocque’s Mississippi Heat Don’t Look Back Delmark

Ana Popovic Dance to the Rhythm Electric Heel

*Honeybear I Was Wrong Playmor

Larkin Poe Bloom (with An Acoustic Companion Volume II) Tricki-Woo

Shirley Johnson Selfish Kind of Gal Delmark

*Dominique Fils-Aimé Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival Ensoul