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

Toronzo Cannon Shut Up & Play! Alligator

*Big Dave McLean This Old Life Cordova Bay

Slash Orgy of the Damned Gibson

*David Gogo Yeah! Cordova Bay

*Ndidi O Simple Songs for Complicated Times Black Hen

Swamp Dogg Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St. Oh Boy

Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert Smithsonian Folkways

Fabulous Thunderbirds Struck Down Stony Plain

*The Harpoonist Did We Come Here To Dance Tonic

Eric Bibb Live at The Scala Theatre Stony Plain

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats The Hits Keep Coming Alligator

Curtis Salgado  Fine By Me Little Village

Left Lane Cruiser Bayport BBQ Blues Alive Naturalsound

Little Feat Sam’s Place Hot Tomato Productions/MRI

*Sue Foley One Guitar Woman Stony Plain

Muireann Bradley I Kept These Old Blues Tompkins Square

*Al Lerman Country-Fried Blues independent

James Harman Didn’t We Have Some Fun Sometime Electro-Fi

*Shawn Kellerman Kell’s Kitchen Songsurfer 

Gary Clark Jr. JPEG RAW Warner

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Live in France: The 1966 Limoges Concert Deep Digs

*Glen Foster Group Unnatural Tendencies independent