February 2025 – Top Blues
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail Twitter: @bwheelerglobe
B.B. King In France Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival Elemental Music
*Live At Twisted Pines Maple Blues Revue Preservation
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers Closer To The Bone Alligator
*Blue Moon Marquee New Orleans Sessions Independent
*Kenny (Blues Boss) Wayne Ooh Yeah! Stony Plain
Ronnie Baker Brooks Blues in My DNA Alligator
Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood Blues Experience Forty Below
*David Vest and Terry Robb CrissCross Cordova Bay
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Honeysuckle Family Owned
Dom Martin Buried Alive Forty Below
Jerron Paxton Things Done Changed Smithsonian Folkways
Mitch Ryder With Love Ruf
*Colin James Chasing The Sun Stony Plain
*David Gogo Yeah! Cordova Bay
Larkin Poe Bloom Tricki-Woo
Shemekia Copeland Blame It On Eve Alligator
*Sarah Sokal Twisted Games Independent
Eric Clapton Meanwhile Bushbranch/Surfdog
*Kellylee Evans Winter Song Enliven Media
Joe Bonamassa Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 J&R Adventures