Top Blues – August 2017
Chuck Berry – Chuck (Dualtone)
George Thorogood – Party of One (Concord)
Dan Zanes – Lead Belly, Baby! (Smithsonian Folkways)
*Terry Gillespie – Home Boy (Self-released)
Don Bryant – Don’t Give Up on Love (Fat Possum)
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats – Groovin’ in Greaseland (Alligator)
Lauren Mitchell – Desire (Self-released)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Lay It On Down (Concord)
*Harrison Kennedy – Who U Tellin’? (Electro-Fi)
*Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie – Old Friends (Black Hen)
The Cash Box Kings – Royal Mint (Alligator)
Otis Taylor – Fantasizing About Being Black (Trance Blues)
Gov’t Mule – Revolution Come…Revolution Go (Fantasy)
Songhoy Blues – Résistance (Fat Possum)
*Tim Bastmeyer – AllStar Blues Band (Self-released)
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou – In Times Like These (Thirty Tigers)
*Chris Antonik – Monarch (Self-released)
*Kim Doolittle – Into the Blues (Self-released)
Sharon Lewis and Texas Fire – Grown Ass Woman (Delmark)
Selwyn Birchwood – Pick Your Poison (Alligator)
* = Canadian
This month’s recommended listening by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail.