Great Northern Blues Society - 2008's Best Releases

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THE ‘BLUES DOCTOR’S PICKS FOR THE BEST 25 BLUES RELEASES FROM 2008
Last year was an excellent year for blues music and lovers of the genre! From all the great music released in 2008 it’s difficult to pick the “best” when so many releases were above average. For this reason my picks aren’t ranked but simply listed in alphabetical order by artist. If you’re favorite Blues or Blues-Rock CD doesn’t appear here it’s likely that it was in the running.

ARTIST:	TITLE:
Marcia Ball	Peace, Love & BBQ
Lurrie Bell	Let’s Talk About Love
Black Keys	Attack & Release
Michael Burks	Iron Man
Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater	West Side Strut
Clovis Mann	Dues
Sean Costello	We Can Get Togeather
Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters	Hope Radio
Buddy Guy	Skin Deep
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band	Pay Me No Minc
Greg Koch & Other Bad Men	Live! On The Air
Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials	Full Tilt
B.B. King	One Kind Favor
Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King	Blood Brothers
Magic Slim & the Teardrops	Midnight Blues
Janiva Magness	What Love Will Do
Liz Mandeville	Red Top
Mannish Boys	Lowdown Feelin’
Mike Morgan and the Crawl	Stronger Every Day
Queenie and the Blue Cats	Another Blue Day
Roomful of Blues	Raisin’ A Ruckus
Curtis Salgado	Clean Getaway
Byther Smith	Blues On The Moon
Otis Taylor	Recapturing The Banjo
Watermelon Slim and the Workers	No Paid Holidays
Westside Andy/Mel Ford Band	Alley Cat

*NOTES* Westside Andy/Mel Ford’s Alley Cat came out in 2007 but I wasn’t aware of it until the summer of 2008. Either way it would have made the “Best of the Blues” one of the years – its great work from a long time Wisconsin favorite.

Bob “The Blues Doctor” Decker, host of The Clinic of Boogie and Blues on WNRB – LP, 93.3 FM every Wednesday night starting at 7 PM. Free People, Free Radio, and when the Clinic’s open – mostly free and very real blues!