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January 6,
2011 Issue
JP Blues -
I Will Not Go Quietly
Lynwood Slim and the Igor Prado Band -
Brazilian Kicks
The Latvian Blues Band - Unreal
Snowy White Blues Project – In Our Time –
Live
Delta Generators - Hard River To Row
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January 13,
2011 Issue
Dr. Duke Tumatoe -
I Just Want to Be Rich
The JT Blues Band – 21st Century Blues
Chrissie O’Dell & One Hot Mess - If I Had a
Dime
Chris Duarte Group - Infinite Energy
Biscuit Miller – Blues With A Smile
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January 20, 2011 Issue
Tip of the Top -
Rock Tonight
Johnny Max Band - It’s a Long Road
Bob Dorr & the Blue Band - Blue Moon Honeymoon
Retro Deluxe - Watermelon Tea
Johnny Moeller - BlooGaLoo
Tas Cru – Jus’ Desserts
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January 27, 2011 Issue
The Doors -
Live in Vancouver 1970 (Double CD)
Mark Rigg and the Big Rigg Band - Mark Rigg and
the Big Rigg Band
Milky Whites & the Bluesmen - One Direction
Jim Byrnes - Everywhere West
Blues Cargo – Delayed Delivery
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February 3, 2011 Issue
The Snakehandlers Blues Band -
Rock plus Roll
Blind Willy - Willing to Crawl
Frankie Lee’s Blues Mission - Sleepin’ Dog
Sabrina Weeks & Swing Cat Bounce - Tales from
Lenny’s Diner
David Vest – Rock A While
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February 10, 2011 Issue
Watermelon Slim & The Workers -
Live at the Ground Zero Blues Club DVD
Cal Williams Jr - All That I Learned From The
Sea
Catfish Keith - Live at the Half Moon
The Robin Thrush Jr. Band - Music City Jam,
Live in the Studio
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February 17, 2011 Issue
Son Jack Jr & Michael Wilde -
Walk The Talk
Jeff Turmes - Five Horses, Four Men
The Bonedrivers - Mobile
Shemekia Copeland - Deluxe Edition
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February 24, 2011 Issue
Damon Fowler - Devil
Got His Way
Rocket 88 & The Rockettes - One-Footed Cockroach
Stomp
North Mississippi All-Stars -
Keys To The Kingdom
Mark Slim Band - Katrina
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March 3, 2011 Issue
Alan Black - Happy As A
Monkey
Roddy Barnes - Under the Sun
Don Ray Band - Lonesome Rider
Big Daddy “O” - Used Blues
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March 10, 2011 Issue
Marshall Lawrence -
Blues Intervention
Macy Blackman and the Mighty Fines - Don’t
You Just Know It
Robin Trower -The Playful Heart
Graná Louise - Getting’ Kinda Rough!
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March 17, 2011 Issue
Mike Milligan And Steam Shovel -
Lucky Man
Stevie J - The Diversity Project
Deb Callahan – Tell It Like It Is
Grand Marquis - Hold On To Me
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March 24, 2011 Issue
Michael Osborn & The Drivers -
The Glamorous Life
John Alex Mason - Jook Joint Thunderclap
Ross Neilsen And The Sufferin’ Bastards –
Redemption
Greg Allman - Low Country Blues
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March 31, 2011 Issue
The Sugar Prophets -
The Sugar Prophets
The Deacons - Jump Tonight
AC Myles – Live Again
Lara Price - Everything
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April 7, 2011 Issue
Blues Dragon - Blues
Dragon
Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers - Double
Voodoo Blues
Open Blues – Seta w ryja!
Rory Block - Shake Em On Down
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April 14, 2011 Issue
Beverly Lewis - All
Shades of Blues
The Delta Flyers - Sixteen Bar
Terry Garland & Li’l Ronnie - Live
at the Canal Club
Dudley Taft - Left For Dead
Foghat - Last Train Home
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April 21, 2011 Issue
Too Slim and the Taildraggers -
Shiver
Dave Hoffheimer Band - King Pin
Big Apple Blues - Brooklyn Blues
Lance Lopez – CD Salvation From Sundown; DVD
The Killer Guitar From Texas
Sam Henry - Treme’ Soul: New
Orleans Gumbo
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April 28, 2011 Issue
Sweet Angel - A Girl Like
Me (Lessons in Life)
Big Joe And The Dynaflows - You Can’t
Keep A Big Man Down
Christopher Dean Band - What I Need
Delta Jets - Live
Big Head Todd & The Monsters -
Big Head Blues Club - 100 years of Robert
Johnson
Mike Hammar & the Nails -
Recipe for the Blues
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May 6, 2011
ISSUE
The Curbfeelers - Grit
‘N’ Groove
Blues International - Smooth and
Slippery at Atlantis
Eric Bibb - Troubadour Live
Popa Chubby – The Essential Popa Chubby
Rich DelGrosso & Jonn Del Toro Richardson -
Time Slips on By
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May 12, 2011
ISSUE
David Berchtold & Brian Stear -
Ghosts of Music Past
Lee Pons - Big Boogie Voodoo
Nebojsa Buhin Nebo - Six String Diary
Samantha Fish, Cassie Taylor, Dani Wilde -
Girls With Guitars
Todd Sharpville -
Porchlight
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May 19, 2011
ISSUE
Various Artists -
2010 Blues Music Awards DVD
Boogie Bone - Pro-Bone-O
Tab Benoit - Medicine
Tweed Funk – Bringin’ It
Big Shanty - Collection
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May 26, 2011
ISSUE
The Veldman Brothers -
Spreadin’ Around
Midnight Shift - Rhythm Rockin’ Boogie
Joe Bonamassa - Dustbowl
Tracy Nelson – Victim Of The Blues
Los Fabulocos featuring Kid Ramos -
Dos
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June 2, 2011
ISSUE
Donna Herula - The
Moon is Rising
Kenny Kilgore - Bad Luck Blues
Al Basile - The Goods
Marcia Ball – Roadside Attractions
JP Soars – More Bees With
Honey
Hugh Laurie - Let Then
Talk
Johnny Rawls - Memphis Still Got Soul
Michael Packer - My Time to Cry
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June 9, 2011
ISSUE
Nellie "Tiger" Travis -
I'm Going Out Tonight
Jesse Anderson - Funk ‘N’ Blues
Billy Thompson - A Better Man
Brad Vickers And His Vestapolitans –
Traveling Fool
Trampled Under Foot - Live at
Notodden Blues Festival
Sterling Koch -
Slide Ruler
Ivas John Band - Look Who’s Crying Now
Doug MacLeod - Brand New Eyes
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June 16, 2011
ISSUE
Grady Champion -
Dreamin
The 44’s - Boogie Disease
Steve Dawson - Nightshade
Ruff Kutt Blues Band – Mill Block
Blues
Ray Manzarek/Roy Rogers –
Translucent Blues
Johnny & the MoTones -
Nothin’ to Lose
Gina Sicilia - Can’t Control Myself
Meyer Rossabi - Blues Is the Color
Howard Glazer and the EL 34’s – Wired
For Sound
Chris Bergson Band - Imitate the
Sun
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June 23, 2011
ISSUE
Hadden Sayers -
Hard Dollar
Atomic Roots Orchestra – Vol. 1
Border Radio Gamble
Mix & Dorp - Blues + Beat
Jeff Chapman – Big Jeff’s Blues Vol. 2
Susan Wylde – In The
Light
Trampled Under Foot -
Wrong Side of the Blues
Sammy Blue - Live at the Blue Note West
Tommy Lee Cook - Outside Looking In
Big Shot Reub & The Reloaders -
Roundhouse Blues
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June 30, 2011
ISSUE
Teresa Lynne -
Tear Drop Collector
Jean Shy & Friends - Blow Top Blues
Don Ray Band – Live in Nashville
B Street Blues – Car Won’t Go
Carol Lockridge -
You Make Me Blue
Lightnin' Malcolm featuring Cameron
Kimbrough - Renegade
Anthony ‘Swamp Dog’ Clark – Raw
Cousin Harley - It’s a Sin
Sweet Claudette – Shaking Up The
Bucket
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July 7, 2011
ISSUE
Jackie Scott & The Housewreckers -
Going To The Westside
Chris Dair - Crossroads to Freedom
Common Ground Blues – Too Much
Talkin’
Davis Coen – Jukebox Classic
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July 14, 2011
ISSUE
Gary Sellers -Soul
Apparatus
Harpdog Brown (featuring Graham Guest) -
Naturally
John “Scootch” Cugno - The Road Leads Home
Demetria Taylor – Bad Girl
Blues Society Of Western Pennsylvania -
Blues From The Burgh 2
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July 22, 2011
ISSUE
Chicago Blues: A Living History -
The (R)evolution
Continues
Patrik Jansson Band - Patrik
Jansson Band
Shawn Pittman – Edge Of The World
Shar-Baby – Shar-Baby’s 11 O’Clock Blues
Andres Roots -
Roundabout
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July 28, 2011
ISSUE
Terry Hanck - Look
Out
Laurie Morvan - Breathe Deep
Elvin Bishop's Rainsin’ Hell Revue -
Live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
Quintus McCormick Blues Band – Put
It On Me!
Dana Fuchs - Love to Beg
Ben Prestage -
One Crow Murder
Lloyd Jones – Highway Bound
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August 5, 2011
ISSUE
Blinddog Smokin’ -
Up From The Tracks (CD, DVD, Booklet)
Eric Ranzoni - The Blues of Eric Ranzoni
Mississippi Cadillac Blues Band -
Stone Cold
Alexis P. Suter Band - Two Sides
Satan And Adam – Back In
The Game
Ron Tanski -
Dragged You Down
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August 11, 2011
ISSUE
Head Honchos’ - Head
Honchos’
The Steve Miller Band - Bingo!
The Steve Miller Band - Let Your Hair Down
Stan Erhart - Missing You
The Russ Tippins Electric Band -
Electrickery
Little Phil -
Never Gonna Give It Up
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August 19, 2011
ISSUE
Glenn Kaiser - Cardboard
Box
Davina and the Vagabonds - Black
Cloud
The Jeff Golub Band Featuring Henry Butler - The
Three Kings
The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue - Live
Lou DeAdder - Headlights
(don’t get caught in the glare)
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August 25, 2011
ISSUE
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band -
Peyton on Patton
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit - Strictly
Whatever
Blue Lunch - Saxophone Shootout II
Eddie Martin - Folk & Blues
Blues Duo Featuring Tracy K And Jamie Steinhoff -
Canned Heat
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September 2, 2011
ISSUE
Kings Highway - The
Line
The Terry Quiett Band - Just My Luck
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - How I Go
(Special Edition)
R. B. Stone - Lonesome Traveler's Blues
Ron Hacker And The Hacksaws -
Filthy Animal
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September 8, 2011
ISSUE
Fruteland Jackson -
Singing the Blues with Stories Vol. 1
Richard Ray Farrell – I Sing The Blues
Eclectic
Barry Levenson – The Late Show
Shane Dwight - A Hundred White Lies
Vince Agwada - Basic Blue
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September 15, 2011
ISSUE
Blues Music from the Florida Folklife Collection -
Where The Palm Trees Shake At
Night
Franco Paletta & The Stingers - Can’t Kick
Love
Peaches Staten – Live At Legends
The Mighty Mojo Prophets – The Mighty
Mojo Prophets
Greg Nagy - Fell Toward None
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers -
Almighty Dollar
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September 23, 2011
ISSUE
Watermelon Slim and Super Chikan -
Okiesippi Blues
Paul Metsa & Sonny Earl - No Money
Down (EP CD and DVD package)
The Soul Of John Black – Good Thang
Douglas Watson R&B Revue - Broken Hearted
Man
Matt Schofield - Anything But Time
Bobby Jones - You Ain’t Got
No Proof
Little Phil -
Never Gonna Give It Up
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September 29, 2011
ISSUE
The Duke Robillard Band -
Low Down and Tore Up
Sena Ehrhardt - Leave the Light On
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne – An Old Rock
On A Roll
The Funky Butt Brass Band - You Can
Trust The Funky Butt Brass Band
Moreland & Arbuckle - Just A Dream
Eric Gales –Transformation
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October 5, 2011
ISSUE
Mike Zito - Greyhound
Bob Jones & The Drive - Michael and Me
Victor Wainright And The Wildroots – Lit
Up!
MonkeyJunk – To Behold
The Sean Chambers Band – Live From The Long
Island Blues Warehouse
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October 13, 2011
ISSUE
Candye Kane (featuring Laura Chavez) -
Sister Vagabond
Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo - 10:49
Earl Green & The Right Time – Live At Brönte
Blues Club
EG Kight - Lip Service
Big Joe Shelton - The Older I Get The Better
I Was
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October 21, 2011
ISSUE
Memphis Gold - Pickin’
High Cotton
Jim Allchin - Overclocked
Various artists – 35 Years Of Stony
Plain
Bill Bourne & The Free Radio Band - Bluesland
Ana Popovic - Unconditional
Bobby Jones - You Ain’t Got
No Proof
Little Phil -
Never Gonna Give It Up
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October 25, 2011
ISSUE
Matthew Curry - If I
Don’t Got You
Eric “Guitar” Davis & The Troublemakers -
Trouble Makin’ Man
Diunna Greenleaf – Trying To Hold On
The Elgins - Back To Chicago
Shaun Murphy - Live at Callahan’s Music Hall
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November 4, 2011
ISSUE
Julius Pittman & the Revival –
Live Tonight
Bobby Rush - Show You a Good Time
Mike Pachelli – Meeting Point
Jackie Johnson - Memphis Jewel
JT Coldfire - Crazy Sun
Boo Boo Davis - Undercover
Blues
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11, 2011
ISSUE
Big George Brock - I
Got To Keep My Bedroom Locked
Niecie – Beyond The Surface
Rich Fabec Band – RFB3
Tom Hambridge - Boom!
Various Artists - Barbecue Any Old Time –
Blues from the Pit
Bobby Jones - You Ain’t Got
No Proof
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November 17, 2011
ISSUE
Mark T. Small - Blacks,
Whites & The Blues
Mary Flower – Misery Loves Company
Josh Smith – I’m Gonna Be Ready
Various Artists - Puddletown Blues, Vol. 1
Mighty Sam McClain/Knut Reiersrud –
One Drop Is Plenty
Alberta Hunter - Downhearted Blues –
Live at the Cookery
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November 25, 2011
ISSUE
Dicky James And The Blue Flames -
Hard Rain
Toby Walker – Shake Shake Mama
Ivan Appelrouth – Blue And Instrumental
Maria Muldaur - Steady Love
Brick Fields - Gospel Blue
Whiteboy James & The Blues Express -
Extreme Makeover
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December 1, 2011
ISSUE
Hope Waits - Introducing
Hope Waits
Chris Duarte – Blues In The Afterburner
Andreas Arlt – All Time Favorites
Wes Lee - The Shack Sessions
D’Mar & Gill - Real Good Friend
The Chicago Kingsnakes -
Blue Mosaic
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December 8, 2011
ISSUE
Errol Linton - Mama Said
Bert Deivert - Kid Man Blues
Travis Moonchild Haddix – Old Man In Love
Bobby Messano - That’s Why I Don’t Sing The
Blues
Billy C. Farlow featuring Mercy - Alabama
Swamp Stomp
Sandy Carroll - Just As I
Am
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December 15, 2011
ISSUE
Bill Edwards - That’s
What I’m Talkin’ About
Scott Ellison - Walkin’ Through The Fire
Bad Influence Band – Under The Influence
Sista Monica Parker - Living in the
Danger Zone
Dream Boogie - I'm Ready
Sandy Atkinson -
Collection
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December 29, 2011
ISSUE
Andy Poxon Band - Red
Roots
Eli Cook - Ace, Jack & King
Sharrie Williams – Out Of The Dark
Sean Costello - At His Best: Live
B.C. Read - 1,000 Miles
Chris Thomas King -
Antebellum Postcards