John Rankin, Guitar Gumbo (STR Digital)

John Fohl, Time Ain’t Waitin’ (Independent)

James Mathus and His Knockdown Society, National Antiseptic (Mammoth Records)

“I say you take about six parts blues and one part county, stir it all up, give it to a poor white Southern boy, and you got yourself some rock […]

Louisiana Red, Driftin’ (Earwig)

Various Artists, Any Woman’s Blues (Rounder Heritage)

Odetta, Looking for a Home (Thanks to Leadbelly) (M.C. Records)

Smoky Greenwell, Premium Smoke (Greenwell Records)

Lenny McDaniel, Unconditional Love (Café Au Lait Music)

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Back to Bogalusa (Blue Thumb)

Tracy Nelson, Ebony & Irony (Eclectic Records/Relentless Records)