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

Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd Young Fashioned Ways
Thirty Tigers

*Crystal Shawanda Sing Pretty Blues New Sun Records

Johnny Iguana At Delmark Delmark

Songhoy Blues Heritage Transgressive

Various artists The Lost Recordings: The Original American Folk Blues Festival 1962 & 1963 ACT

*Kenny (Blues Boss) Wayne Ooh Yeah! Stony Plain

Robbie Basho Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan Tompkins Square

Ally Venable Money & Power Ruf

Family Southern Avenue Alligator
*Ollee Owens Nowhere to Hide Independent

Sean Chambers Live From Daryl’s House Club Quarto Valley

John Mayall Second Generation: Live Magic 1968-1993 Madfish

Tony Holiday Keep Your Head Up Forty Below

Eric Johanson Live in Mississippi Ruf

Various artists Treasures Untold : A Modern 78 RPM Reader Tompkins Square

ZZ Ward Liberation Dirty Shine/Sun

Janiva Magness Back For Me Blue Élan

*David Vest and Terry Robb CrissCross Cordova Bay

Jerron Paxton Things Done Changed Smithsonian Folkways

*Colin James Chasing The Sun Stony Plain

Larkin Poe Bloom Tricki-Woo