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      • Gary Moore, How Blue Can You Get
      • Reggie Harris, Solid Ground
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      • New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, Volume 2
      • Dave Whitcroft, Holy Mountain
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      • Alabama Slim, The Parlor
      • Albums 2020
        • Larkin Poe, Kindred Spirits
        • Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Straight to You: Live
        • Catfish Keith, Blues at Midnight
        • Sir Rod and the Blues Doctors: Come Together
        • Rory Gallagher, The Best of Rory Gallagher
        • George Benson, Weekend in London
        • Trouble, Rev. John Wilkins
        • Diana Jones, Song to a Refugee
        • Joe Bonamassa, Royal Tea
        • Walter Trout, Ordinary Madness
        • Sunnysiders, The Bridges
        • The Smoke Wagon Blues Band, The Ballad of Albert Johnson
        • Dedicated Men of Zion, Can’t Turn Me Around
        • Fabrizio Poggi, For You,
        • Larkin Poe, Self-Made Man
        • Dion, Blues with Friends
        • Brian Houston, Embrace
        • Eliza Neals, Black Crow Moan
        • Rory Block, Prove It On Me
        • Louise Cappi, Mélange
        • Sonny Landreth, Blacktop Run
      • Albums 2019
        • Sister Lucille Band, Alive
        • Joanna Connor: Rise
        • Matty T Wall, Transpacific Blues: Volume One
        • Samantha Fish, Kill Or Be Kind,
        • Martin Harley, Roll With the Punches
        • Janiva Magness, Change in the Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty
        • The Jorgensens: The Lexington Stretch
        • Lee Boys Band: Live On The East Coast.
        • Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers, No Good Deed
        • Eliza Neals, Sweet or Mean
        • Hans Theessink, 70th Birthday Bash
        • Tullie Brae – Revelation
        • Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Kingfish
        • Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi: There is No Other
        • Terry Robb, Confessin’ My Dues
        • Gottfried David Gfrerer’s paean to the Triolian resonator: Polychrome
        • Paul Nelson, Over Under Through
      • Albums 2018
        • Brooks Williams: Lucky Star
        • Eric Bibb is on a musical mission with Global Griot
        • Simon Kennedy Band: All Or Nothing
        • Ariel Posen: How Long
        • Paul Oscher: Cool Cat
        • Laurie Jane & the 45s: Late Last Night – Elixir of Sara Martin
        • Paul Cowley: Just What I Know
        • Matty T Wall: Sidewinder
        • Mark Harrison, The Panoramic View
        • Keeshea Pratt Band: Believe
        • Kris Lager Band: Love Songs & Life Lines.
      • Albums 2017
        • Alastair Greene: Dream Train
        • Lew Jetton & 61 South: Palestine Blues
        • Trevor Sewell: Calling Nashville
        • Low Society: Sanctified
        • Jon Zeeman’s Blue Room
        • Eliza Neals: 10,000 Feet Below
        • Jo Harman: People We Become
        • Thornetta Davis: Honest Woman
        • Kat & Co: Blues Is the New Cool
        • Guy Davis, Fabrizio Poggi: Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train
        • Janiva Magness – Blue Again
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      • Ian Zack, Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
      • Michael Corcoran, Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music
      • The Myth of the American Dream, D.L. Mayfield,
      • Gary Golio & E.B. Lewis, Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars
      • Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black
      • Mae Elise Cannon, Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age
      • Annye C. Anderson, with Preston Lauterbach, Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
      • Dick Waterman: A Life in Blues, Tammy L. Turner
      • The End of Hunger, J.E. Dyer & C. Falsani (eds.)
      • Charlie Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta, Robert Sacré (ed.)
      • David T. Koyzis, Political Visions & Illusions
      • Conforth & Wardlow: Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
      • Brian Hiatt, Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs
      • Brooks Harrington: No Mercy, No Justice
      • Jonathan Walton, Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth that Sets Us Free
      • Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion, by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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