 | Blues Deluxe by Joe Bonamassa
Buy new: £9.68 2003: Album features some heavy rocking covers such as Hookers Burning Hell, Walkin Blues & slide on Elmore James' Wild About You Baby and impassioned title track and Woke Up Dreaming acoustic track
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 | 22-20s by 22-20s
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £1.94 2004: Sadly the 22-20 are now defunct, but this was a promising debut with tracks like The Devil In Me (on Honda advert) and Shoot Your Gun. They also played a wild version of King Bee live too!
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 | Sean Costello by Sean Costello
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £12.14 2004: Sean produces a great album of modern blues and soul, best tracks are I've Got To Ride, Peace of Mind, ballad Don't Pass Me By and rockin' Big Road Blues
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 | The Throes by Two Gallants
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £5.69 2004: This punk/folk/blues duo are worth tracking down. Their debut album contains a cover of Rev Wilkins You Losin' Out about a cheating woman and the swampy slide guitar blues of Train That Stole...
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 | Honkin' on Bobo by Aerosmith
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.32 2004: Aerosmith finally produce an album that takes them back to their roots. Best tracks are the three Fred McDowall covers. Worth listening to, even for non Aerosmith fans
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 | Electric Blue Watermelon by North Mississippi Allstars
Buy new: £20.49 / Used from: £7.82 2005: North Mississippi Allstars' finest yet. Features a rollicking Charley Patton's Mississippi Bo Weevil, the Allman Bros's inspired Moonshine, the aptly named Stompin' and Odetta's Deep Blue Sea
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 | Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert by John Mayer Trio
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £5.20 2005: John Mayer finally plays the blues he was hinting at earlier - includes a good version of Ray Charles' I Got A Woman, and Gravity and Vultures which later appeared on Continuum
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 | Siftin' Thru Ashes by Matt Schofield
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £24.29 2005: High point for the Matt Scofield Trio. Good blues with a hint of jazz one of only two living British artists to be given a four star (excellent) rating in the Penguin Book of Blues Recordings.
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 | Full Circle by Walter Trout
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £8.34 2006: Walter Trout has made his best album of a long career, too many guest artists to name. Great songs include Working Overtime, Working Overtime, Can't Help Falling Apart and Clouds on Horizon
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 | Chulahoma: the Songs of Junior Kimbrough by The Black Keys
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £3.50 2006: Chulahoma was the town where Junior Kimbrough lived, and this is a fitting tribute to his memory, recorded by the Black Keys, includes Meet Me In The City, Keep Your Hands Off and My Mind...
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 | Prohibition by Gwyn Ashton
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.00 2006 - Gywn Ashton is an Australian guitarist who plays in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, includes a cover of Rory Gallagher's Secret Agent and autobiographical Guitar Town
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 | Dog House Music by Seasick Steve
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.08 2006: Seasick Steve is getting better known. This is a bareboned album of Mississippi country blues and some three string trance music! Best tracks are Dog House Boogie, Hobo Low & Cut My Wings
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 | Roll Away by Back Door Slam
Buy new: £18.09 / Used from: £7.36 2007 - Great debut album made by three teenagers from Isle of Man making success through constant touring of USA. Contains Come Home, Gotta Leave, Too Late and cover of Outside Woman Blues.
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 | Can't Take No More by Scott Mckeon
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £6.95 2007: Scott McKeon's promising debut tips its hat at artists such as The Hoax and John Mayer. Check out the rocking Shot Down and stomping title track
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 | Definition of a Circle by Otis Taylor
Buy new: £11.28 / Used from: £12.90 2007: Otis Turner streatches the boundaries of blues with mandolins, cornets and jazz pianos. Highlights are Few Feet Away, They Wore Blue and Little Betty, the latter featuring Gary Moore.
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 | Upside Down by Aynsley Lister
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £8.64 2007 - Possibly Lister's finest album yet starts with the rocking Find My Way Home, features should be hit singles Wherever I Am and Ice I'm Upon and uptempo title track.
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 | Icky Thump by The White Stripes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.45 2007: A welcome return to the style of De Stijl, Jack White brings out his slide again on Catch Hell Blues. Highlights include title track, 300MPH Torrential Outpour Blues and Rag and Bone.
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 | Radio Moscow by Radio Moscow
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £18.74 2007: A promising and energetic debut of blues rock originals by this power trio which recalls Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, Cream and Hendrix. Highlights are Mistreating Queen and Deep Blue Sea.
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 | Swagger by Ian Siegal
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £14.31 2007: Rated best blues album of 2007 by readers of Bluesmatters. A fine range of different blues, hightlights include the title track, High Horse, Mortal Coil Shuffle and Catch 22
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 | We Can Get Together by Sean Costello
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £11.80 2008: This was Costello's finest and more varied album, with soulful tunes such as All This Time, Hard Luck Woman and the sadly prophetic Going Home.
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 | Open Road by Oli Brown
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £6.34 2008: Oli Brown demonstrates why he is the most promising bluesman in the UK with some great uptempo tracks like New Groove and slow songs like Missing You that recall Otis Rush
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 | Hernando by North Mississippi Allstars
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £19.99 2008: North Mississippi Allstar's new album is their finest, most personal and sonic album yet. Featuring Shake & Keep The Devil Down
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 | Rich Man Falling by Simon McBride
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £13.30 2008: Simon McBride's album is a strong debut with good originals like The River and Devil Woman (not Cliff's) and a cover of Free's Be My Friend
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 | White Sugar by Joanne Shaw Taylor
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £12.75 2009: This is a superb blues rock album featuring 9 great originals including Going Home and Blackest Day, plus a cover of the Hoax's Bones. Get it!
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 | The Ballad Of John Henry by Joe Bonamassa
Buy new: £8.98 2009 - Joe's best collection of songs yet, standouts include Last Kiss, Jockey Full Of Bourbon the horn driven Funkier Than A Mosquito... and two great solo blues songs Happier Times & The Great Flood
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