Jan 2021 – Top Blues
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail Twitter: @bwheelerglobe
Wall Matthews The Plum Women’s Blues Tompkins Square
Cristina Vane Old Played New Blue Tip
*Steve Hill Desert Trip Self
*Bill King Mondo Jumbo Self
Selwyn Birchwood Living in a Burning House Alligator
Alabama Slim The Parlor, Cornelius Chapel
Bette Smith The Good, The Bad and The Bette Ruf
*Layla Zoe Nowhere Left to Go Self
Kim Wilson Take Me Back: The Bigtone Sessions MC Records
Duke Robillard & Friends Blues Bash! Stony Plain
Catfish Keith Blues at Midnight Self
Sonny Landreth Blacktop Run Provogue
The Doors Morrison Hotel (50th Anniversary Edition) Rhino
*Tony D Speak No Evil – A Flurry of Instrumentals Self
Songhoy Blues Optimisme Fat Possum
*Endrick and the Sandwiches Green Room Rumble Self
Rev. John Wilkins Trouble Goner Records
*Rick Fines Solar Powered Too Raf
New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 1 Stony Plain
*Miss Emily Live at the Isabel Independent
*Downchild Live at the Toronto Jazz Festival Linus
*Smokewagon Blues Band The Ballad of Albert Johnson Self
*Canadian release