Top Blues – September 2013
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail (globeandmail.com and Twitter: bwheelerglobe)
Buddy Guy Rhythm & Blues Silvertone
*Kendall Wall Band The Way We Was 47 Records
Booker T. Jones Sound the Alarm Stax
Tedeschi Trucks Band Made Up Minds Sony
Mavis Staples One True Vine Anti-
*David Gogo Come on Down Cordova Bay
Moreland & Arbuckle 7 Cities Telarc
Various Artists Classic Harmonica Blues Smithsonian Folkways
North Mississippi Allstars World Boogie Is Coming Songs of the South
Studebaker John’s Maxwell Street Kings Kingsville Jukin’ Delmark
Roomful of Blues 45 Live Alligator
Willis Earl Beal Nobody Knows XL
Black Joe Lewis Electric Slave Vagrant
Rory Block Avalon-A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt Stony Plain
Walter Trout Luther’s Blues: A Tribute to Luther Alison Mascot
Tail Dragger Stop Lyin’ Delmark
Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five Bison Ranch Outside
Delbert & Glen Blind Crippled & Crazy New West
Guy Davis Juba Dance M.C.
Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Get Out! Stax
Corey Harris Fulton Blues Independent