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

*Colin James Chasing The Sun Stony Plain

*Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley Forever Blues G-Three

 Ronnie Baker Brooks Blues In My DNA Alligator  

Tab Benoit I Hear Thunder Whiskey Bayou 

Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood Blues Experience’ Forty Below

Ella Jenkins A Long Time Smithsonian Folkways

Johnny Mars & The Cold Heart Revue The River Is Long independent

Joanne Shaw Taylor Heavy Soul Journeyman

Sugaray Rayford Human Decency Forty Below 

*Son of Dave A Flat City Goddamn Records  

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session Craft

*Blue Moon Marquee New Orleans Sessions independent

Fantastic Negrito Son of a Broken Man Storefront

Left Lane Cruiser Bayport BBQ Blues Alive Naturalsound

Alastair Greene Standing Out Loud Ruf

*Frank Cosentino Comeback independent

Shemekia Copeland Blame It On Eve Alligator

*Big Dave McLean This Old Life Cordova Bay

Rory Block Positively 4th Street Stony Plain

Evan Nicole Belle Runaway Girl Hummingbird

Muireann Bradley I Kept These Old Blues Tompkins Square

*David Gogo Yeah! Cordova Bay