This week on the program we conclude our Best of 2021 series, turning your attention to some of the best blues recordings released last year. We’ll hear from Buffalo Nichols, Sue Foley, Maria Muldaur, Robert Finley, Colin James and many more … a rockin’ Part 3, this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Dave Specter / “Wind Chill” / Six String Soul / Delmark
Corey Harrhis / “Twelve Gates to the City” / The Insurrection Blues / MC
Peter Keane / “Weary Blues” / Blues-Ballads-Cowboy Songs / Self-Produced
Maria Muldaur w/ Tuba Skinny / “I Like You Best of All” / Let’s Get Happy Together /
              Stony Plain
 
Tony Joe White / “Bubba Jones” / Smoke from the Chimney / Easy Eye Sound
Carolyn Wonderland / “The Laws Must Change” / Tempting Fate / Alligator
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss / “Last Kind Words Blues” / Raise the Roof / Rounder
Dave Specter / “Ridin’ High” / Six String Soul / Delmark
 
Buffalo Nichols / “Lost & Lonesome” / Buffalo Nichols / Fat Possum
Guy Davis / “Got Your Letter in My Pocket” / Be Ready When I Call You / MC
Sue Foley / “Two Bit Texas Town” / Pinky’s Blues / Stony Plain
Colin James / “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” / Open Road / Stony Plain
Robert Finley / “Make Me Feel Alright” / Sharecropper’s Son / Easy Eye Sound
Ally Venable / “What Do You Want from Me” / Heart of Fire / Ruf
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways