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

*Ndidi O Simple Songs for Complicated Times Black Hen
*Sue Foley One Guitar Woman Stony Plain
James Harman Didn’t We Have Some Fun Sometime Electro-Fi
*Shawn Kellerman Kell’s Kitchen Songsurfer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Live in France: The 1966 Limoges Concert Deep Digs
Taj Mahal Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa Lightning Rod
Albert Cummings Strong Ivy Music
Philip Sayce The Wolves are Coming Forty Below
Gary Clark Jr. JPEG RAW Warner
Katie Henry Get Goin’ Ruf
*Blackburn Brothers SoulFunkin’ Blues Electro-Fi
Tinsley Ellis Naked Truth Alligator
Bernard Allison Luther’s Blues Ruf
Muireann Bradley I Kept These Old Blues Tompkins Square
*Robert Connely Farr Pandora Sessions Independent
Danielle Nicole Band The Love You Bleed Forty Below
Walter Wolfman Washington Feel So at Home Tipitina’s Record Club
Albert Cummings Strong Ivy Music
Mitch Ryder The Roof is on Fire Ruf
Steve Hunter The Deacon Speaks Independent
*Sue Foley Live in Austin, Vol. 1 Stony Plain
Slash (with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler) Killing Floor, from the forthcoming Orgy of the Damned