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    Favorite Blues CD's of 1999
    (Compilied from blues fans and reviewers)
    If you have a "best of" list of your favorite CD's for 1999 or part of 1998 let me know so we can add them to this list.
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    The "BEST OF" CD list for 1999 is in.

    Christopher Brunsberg
    Mike Henderson & the bluebloods, "Thicker Than Water"
    Mason Ruffner, "You Can't Win"

    Gabi Schwanke
    Canned Heat, "Boogie 2000"
    Eric Burdon & The i Band: Official Live Bootleg No.1
    Eric Burdon & The i Band: Official Live Bootleg No.2
    Jonny Lang, "Wander The World"

    Roz
    Jake Andrews, "Time to Burn"
    Indigneous, "Things We do"
    Jonny Lang, "Wander This World"
    Buddy Guy, "Heavy Love"
    Kenny Wayne Shepard, "Live"
    Jimmy Vaughn, "Stange Pleasures"
    Luther Allison, "Reckless"

    Adrienne Williams
    Ronnie Baker Brooks, "Golddigger"
    Buddy Guy, "Buddy's Baddest"
    Buddy Guy, "Heavy Love"
    Susan Tedeschi, "Just Won't Burn"
    Brooks, Hunter, Walker, "Lone Star Shootout"
    Muddy Waters, "The Lost Tapes, Live"

    Dick Houff
    Living Country Blues, "An Anthology" (3 CD Set, Evidence Records)
    Luther Allison, "Live In Chicago" (2 CD Set, Alligator Records)
    Muddy Waters, "The Lost Tapes" (Recorded Live, Blind Pig Records)
    Mance Lipscomb, "Live! at The Cabale" (Texas Songster, Vol. 4, Arhoolie Records)
    Earwig Music, "20th. Anniversary Collection" (2 CD Set, Earwig)

    Connie Humiston, Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival Operations Manager & KKFI 90.1 DJ
    Michelle Willson, "Trying to Make A Little Love" (Bullseye)
    Jimmy "T-99" Nelson, "Rockin' and Soutin' The Blues" (Bullseye)
    Johnnie Bassett, "Party My Blues Away" (Cannonball)
    W.C. Clark, "Lover's Plea" (Blacktop)
    Weepin' Willie w/Mighty Sam McClain & Susan Tedeschi, "At Last, On Time" (APO)

    Roy Prescott
    Albert King w/ SRV, "In Session"
    Big Bill Morganfield, "Rising Son"
    Living Country Blues: An Anthology (3 CD set on Evidence, Awesome!)
    Odetta, "Blues Everywhere I Go"
    Kid Ramos, "Kid Ramos"
    Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets w/ Sam Myers, "Change in My Pocket"
    Muddy Waters, "The Lost Tapes"
    The Ford Blues Band 1999
    Bob Margolin, "Hold Me to It"
    Little Milton, "Welcome to Little Milton"

    Scott Q
    Luther Allison, "Live in Chicago"
    Shannon Curfman, "Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions"
    Gypsy (self titled): reissued, Bedrock records 1999. Original release: 1970
    Gypsy, "In the Garden" reissued, Bedrock records 1999. Original release 1971

    Bill Crabb
    Luther Allison, "Live In Chicago"
    James Solberg, "LA Blues"
    Brooks, Hunter, & Walker, "Lone Star Shootout"
    Muddy Waters, "The Lost Tapes"
    Various Artists, "Blues Power: The Songs of Eric Clapton"
    Bill Morganfield, "Rising Son"
    Various Artists, "Tribute to Muddy Waters" (Hybrid Records)
    Various Artists, "The "Songs of Willie Dixon" (Telarc)
    Jimmy Johnson, "Every Road Ends Somewhere"
    Syl Johnson, "Talkin' Bout Chicago"

    Rolf Stensletten
    Mighty Mo Rodgers, "Blues Is My Wailin' Wall" (Northstar Records)
    Jerry McCain, "Good Stuff" (Varese Vintage)
    Papa Lightfoot/Sam Myers, "Blues Harmonica Wizards" (Official)
    Homesick James, "Chicago Slide Guitar Wizard" (Official )
    Slam Allen, "Things Sho' Done Changed" (Rave On Records)
    Rishell & A. Raines, "Moving To The Country" (Tone Cool Records)
    Toni Price, "Low Down And Up" (Antones Records)
    Texas Johnny Brown, "Nothin' But The Truth" (Choctaw Creek Records)
    Various Artists, "In The Blues Quartet-Chicago 1964" (Jefferson)
    Sam McClain, "Soul Survivor" (Audioquest)
    Walter Trout, "Livin Every Day" (RUF)
    Shannon Curfman, "Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions" (Arista)

    Gordon Baxter
    Ben Andrews, "Stones In My Passway"
    Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter & Philip Walker, "Lone Star Shootout" (Alligator)
    Snooky Pryor, "Can't Stop Blowin'"

    Ann Wickstrom
    Chris Smither, "Drive You Home Again"
    Joey DeFrancesco, "Goodfellas"
    Charlie Musselwhite, "Continental Drifter"
    Tom Hunter, "Big Thunder"
    Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, "Moving to the Country"

    Stephen Davidson
    Various Artists, "I Blueskvarter" Chicago 1964 volume 1 (Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4)
    Various Artists, "Living Country Blues, An Anthology" (Evidence ECD 26105-2)

    Michael Martindale
    Johnnie Bassett & the Blues Insurgents, "Party My Blues Away" (Cannonball Records)
    Charlie Musselwhite, "Continental Drifter" (Pointblank Records)
    Anders Osborne, "Living Room" (Shanachie Entertainment)
    Van Morrison, "Back On Top" (Pointblank)

    Ray Stiles
    Lazy Lester, "All Over You" (Antone's)
    Shemekia Copeland, "Turn The Heat Up" (Alligator)
    Eric Culberson, "No Rules To The Game" (King Snake Records)
    Ted Hawkins, "The Final Tour" (Evidence)
    Robbie Laws, "Takin' The Night Train" (Midnight Rain Music)
    Little Ed & The Blues Imperials, "Get Wild" by Tony Glover (Alligator)
    Roscoe Shelton, "Let It Shine" (Black Top)
    Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, "Give Me Wings" (Atomic Theory)

    Michael Evan
    Duke Robillard, "New Blues for Modern Man" (Shanachie)
    Jay McShann, "Still Jumpin' the Blues" (Stony Plain)
    Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, "Give Me Wings" (Atomic Theory Records)

    Terry Marshall
    Mike Morgan & the Crawl, "I Like the Way You Work It" (Black Top)

    Dave "Doc" Piltz
    Wilson Pickett, "It's Harder Now" (Bullseye)
    Luther Allison, "Live In Chicago" (Alligator)

    Tim Holek
    Big James Montgomery, "Funkin Blues" (Jamot Music)
    Little Mack Simmons, "The PM/Simmons Collection" (Electro-Fi)
    Ronnie Baker Brooks, "Golddigger" (Watchdog Records)
    Johnnie Bassett, "Party My Blues Away" (Cannonball)
    Downchild Blues Band, "Case of the Blues - Best of" (Attic)
    Alberta Adams, "Born with the Blues" (Cannonball)

    Ryan Reardon
    Robert Cray Band, "Take Your Shoes Off"
    Anson Funderburgh and The Rocket featuring Sam Myers, "Change in my pocket"

    Hal Horowitz
    Luther Allison, "Live in Chicago" (Alligator)
    Curtis Salgado, "Wiggle Outta This" (Shanachie)
    Rory Gallagher, "BBC Sessions" (Buddha)

    Ken Hall
    Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan, "In Session"
    Luther Allison, "Live In Chicago"
    Melanie Rosales, "Can't Change It"

    Jimmyboy
    Luther Allison, "Live in Chicago" (Alligator)
    L.A. Jones, "Live at the Dead Goat Saloon"
    Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson, "Live at the Rynborn"
    Muddy Waters the lost tapes
    Dave Mackenzie, "Rats in my Bedroom"

    Brian Broccoli
    Derek Trucks Band, "Out of the Madness" (House of Blues Music Co.)
    Boozoo Chavis, "Who Stole My Monkey?" (Rounder)
    Walter Trout, "Livin' Every Day" (Ruf Records)

    Lindsay
    Jonny Lang, "Wander This World"

    Barry Gober
    Lazy Lester, "All Over You" (Antones)
    Aaron Moore, "Boot Em Up" (Delmark)
    Roy Gaines, "I Got The T-Bone Walker Blues" (Groove Note)
    B.B. King, "Blues On The Bayou" (MCA)
    Kid Ramos, "Kid Ramos" (Evidence)
    Duke Robillard, "Stretchin Out Live" (Stoney Plain)
    Holland K. Smith, "Walkin Heart Attack" (Topcat)
    West Coast Playboys featuring Junior Watson, "Swingin, Rockin, Jumpin, Jivin" (Self Released)
    Kirk "Eli" Fletcher, "I'm Here & I'm Gone" (JSP)
    James Harman, "Taking Chances" (Cannonball)

    Terry Marshall
    JR. Kimbrough, "Meet Me In the City"

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