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

*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

Ghalia Volt Shout Sister Shout Ruf

Christone (Kingfish) Ingram Live In London Alligator

Various Artists Basie Swings The Blues Candid

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Live in 1967 – Volume Three Forty Below

Coco Montoya Writing on the Wall Alligator

*Michael Jerome Browne Gettin’ Together Stony Plain

Nina Simone You’ve Got To Learn Verve

Various Artists Delmark 70^th Blues Anthology Delmark

Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones The Prize Strawberry Moon

*Layla Zoe Back to the Spirit of 66 Cable Car

T-Model Ford Live At The Deep Blues Alive Naturalsound

*André Bisson Latchford Independent

Robin Trower Joyful Sky Provogue

Various Artists Alligator Records Christmas Collection Alligator

Joanna Connor Best of Me Gulf Coast

*JW-Jones Everything Now Stony Plain

Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton Death Wish Blues Rounder

*The Maple Blues Band Let’s Go Cordova Bay

*Denotes Canadian Release