August 2022 – Top Blues

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

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Nonesuch

Shemekia Copeland Done Come Too Far Alligator

*Harrison Kennedy Thanks For Tomorrow Electro-Fi

Bettye LaVette Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette in Memphis Sun Records Kirk Fletcher Heartache By The Pound Ogierea

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm Carry Me Home ANTI-

ZZ Top RAW Shelter/BMG

*Angelique Francis Long River independent

Charlie Musselwhite Mississippi Son Alligator

*Steve Dawson Phantom Threshold Black Hen

*Mike Stevens Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music Stony Plain

Altered Five Blues Band Charmed & Dangerous Blind Pig

Rolling Stones Live at the El Mocambo Universal

*Horojo Trio Set The Record Stony Plain

*The Hogtown Allstars Hog Wild Stony Plain

*Little Miss Higgins The Fire Waltz Independent 

Kenny Neal Straight from the Heart Ruf

*Sass Jordan Bitches Blues Stony Plain

Son House Forever on My Mind Easy Eye Sound

*The Strongman Blues Remedy Volume 1 Stony Plain

Rick Holmstrom Get It LuEllie