February 2024 – Top Blues
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail Twitter: @bwheelerglobe
Muireann Bradley I Kept These Old Blues Tompkins Square
Tinsley Ellis Naked Truth Alligator
*Sue Foley Live in Austin, Vol. 1 Stony Plain
Bernard Allison Luther’s Blues Ruf
*Robert Connely Farr Pandora Sessions Independent
Chris O’Leary The Hard Line Alligator
Danielle Nicole Band The Love You Bleed Forty Below
Luther Dickinson Magic Music For Family Folk New West/Antone’s
Walter Wolfman Washington Feel So at Home Tipitina’s Record Club
JJ Grey & Mofro Olustee Alligator
Albert Cummings Strong Ivy Music
*Brandon Isaak One Step Closer Self
Bobby Rush All My Love for You Thirty Tigers
The Tibbs Keep It to Yourself Record Kicks
Caroline Cotto Bayou Sun Independent
*Blackburn Brothers SoulFunkin’ Blues Electro-Fi
Various Artists Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 Smithsonian Folkways
Robert Finley Black Bayou Easy Eye Sound
*Michael Jerome Browne Gettin’ Together Stony Plain
Christone (Kingfish) Ingram Live In London Alligator
*Layla Zoe Back to the Spirit of 66 Self
Bob Margolin Thanks VizzTone