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TOP BLUES: DECEMBER 2005

This month's recommended listening selected by Globe and Mail music writer Brad Wheeler.

Bettye LaVette: I've Got My Own Hell to Raise (Anti/Epitaph)
Magic Slim & the Teardrops: Anything Can Happen (Blind Pig)
Buddy Guy: Bring 'em In (Silvertone/Zomba)
Susan Tedeschi: Hope and Desire (Verve)
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers: For the Chosen Who (Delta Groove)
Billy Boy Arnold: Consolidated Mojo (Electro-Fi)
Various: Toronto Blues Society 20 Years (TBS)*
Rory Gallagher: Big Guns (Sony/BMG)
Julian Fauth: Songs of Vice and Sorrow (Electro-Fi)*
Tab Benoit, with guests: Wetlands (Telarc)
The Campbell Brothers: Can You Feel It (Ropeadope)
Brian Blain: Overqualified for the Blues (Northern Blues)*
Keith B. Brown: Delta Soul (Juna Music/Raisin Music)
Juke Boy Bonner: Sonet Blues Story (Universal)
Big Mama Thornton: Sassy Mama (Just a Memory)
Johnny Adams: The Great Johnny Adams Blues Label (Rounder)
Various: Eccentric Soul - The Bandit Label (Numero Group/Bloodshot)
Smokin' Joe Kubek, featuring Bnois King: Served Up Texas Style (Rounder)
Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer (Smithsonian-Folkways)
North Mississippi Allstars: Electric Blue Watermelons (ATO Records)

* Canadian artist