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TOP BLUES: JANUARY 2008

This month’s recommended listening selected by Brad Wheeler, music writer for the Globe and Mail.

* Harrison Kennedy High Country Blues (Electro-Fi)
Nappy Brown Long Time Coming (Blind Pig)
Nathaniel Mayer Why Don't You Give it to Me? (Alive Records)
* Ken Whiteley One World Dance (Borealis)
Sleepy John Estes On The Chicago Blues Scene (Delmark)
John Dee Holman John Dee Holman & the Waifs Band (Music Maker)
* The Sojourners Hold On (Black Hen)
Frank Frost & Sam Carr The Last of the Jelly Roll Kings (SPV)
Homesick James Shake Your Money Maker (SPV)
Mem Shannon Live: A Night at Tipitina's (Northern Blues)
* Danny Brooks No Easy Way Out (Rockin’ Camel Music)
Sharrie Williams I'm Here to Stay (Electro-Fi)
* Michael Jerome Browne Double (Borealis)
* Sunparlour Players Hymns for the Happy (Baudelaire)
Various Artists Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)
Bettye LaVette The Scene of the Crime (Anti-)
Maria Muldaur Naughty Bawdy & Blue (Stony Plain)
* Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers En Duo (Justin Time)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers In the Palace of the King (Eagle)
Mavis Staples We'll Never Turn Back (Anti-)

* Canadian artist