Clearwater, Free My Blues (Clearwater Music)

The Jay B. Elston Band, The Jay B. Elston Band (Noiseland)

Roosevelt Sykes, Raining in My Heart (Delmark)

Sykes was known to the ladies—and therefore to the boogie-woogie world—as “The Honey Dripper,” but he was a shouter, not a lover, schooled in the very earliest days of barrelhouse […]

Big Walter Horton and Alfred “Blues King” Harris, Harmonica Blues Kings (Delmark)

Paul Pena, New Train (Hybrid)

Various Artists, Jump ‘n’ Shout!: New Orleans Blues and Rhythm

Robert Nighthawk, Live on Maxwell Street 1964 (Bullseye Blues and Jazz)

It gets no rawer. Robert Nighthawk, the sadly underrated and underrecognized slide-guitar master who, more than any artist, brought the Delta blues into the electric age, cut these songs out […]

Various Artists, New Beats From the Delta (Fat Possum)

Keb’ Mo’, The Door (Epic/550 Music/Okeh)

Chris Duarte, Love Is Greater Than Me (Zoe Records)