August 2024 – Top Blues
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail Twitter: @bwheelerglobe
*Son of Dave A Flat City Goddamn Records
Shemekia Copeland Blame It On Eve Alligator
*Big Dave McLean This Old Life Cordova Bay
Rory Block Positively 4th Street Stony Plain
Willie Buck Live At Buddy Guy’s Legends Delmark
Eric Clapton To Save a Child Surfdog
Left Lane Cruiser Bayport BBQ Blues Alive Natural Sound
Louis Armstrong Louis in London Universal
Fabulous Thunderbirds Struck Down Stony Plain
Chris Cain Good Intentions Gone Bad Alligator
Toronzo Cannon Shut Up & Play! Alligator
Slash Orgy of the Damned Gibson
*David Gogo Yeah! Cordova Bay
*Ndidi O Simple Songs for Complicated Times Black Hen
Georgia Island Singers The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert Smithsonian Folkways
Eric Bibb Live at The Scala Theatre Stony Plain
*Sue Foley One Guitar Woman Stony Plain
*Al Lerman Country-Fried Blues independent
James Harman Didn’t We Have Some Fun Sometime Electro-Fi
*Shawn Kellerman Kell’s Kitchen Songsurfer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Live in France: 1966 Limoges Concert Deep Digs