*Jim Byrnes Long Hot Summer Nights Black Hen
Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black Anti-
*Betty Bonifassi Lomax Select
Boubacar Traoré Dounia Tabolo Lusafrica
Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters The Luckiest Man Stony Plain
*Little Miss Higgins My Home, My Heart Self-released
Hayes McMullan Everyday Seem Like Murder Here Light in the Attic
*Layla Zoe Songs from the Road Ruf
Mark Porkchop Holder Death and the Blues Alive
*Terry Gillespie Home Boy self-released
Syleena Johnson Rebirth of Soul Shanachie
Gregg Allman Southern Blood Rounder
*Downchild Something I’ve Done True North
*Julian Fauth The Weak and the Wicked Electro-Fi
Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ TajMo Concord
*Mighty Duck Blues Band Duck Soup Self-released
Watermelon Slim Golden Boy Dixiefrog
Otis Taylor Fantasizing About Being Black Trance Blues
Austin Hanks Alabastard self-released

*=Canadian