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Smokestack Lightnin’s Top 25 Blues CDs for the Month of August 2006

#25 Lil Dave Thompson/Got To Get Over You/Got To Get Over You/Electro Fi
#24 Bill Perry/Can’t Afford To Die/Don’t Know Nothin About Love/Blind Pig
#23 Chubby Carrier/Father Of Fun/Bayou Road/Swampadelic
#22 Mel Brown/I Wanna See My Baby/Blues-A beautiful Thing/Electro Fi
#21 Studebaker John/Hoo Doo You/Self Made Man/Avanti
#20 R.J. Mischo/20% Alcohol/He Came To Play/Crosscut
#19 Bill Lupkin/Can’t Hide A Lie/Where I Come From/Blue Bella
#18 Charlie Musselwhite/Sundown/Delta Hardware Co./Real World
#17 Kilborn Alley Blues Band/Thousand Miles/Put It In The Alley/Blue Bella
#16 Eddie Kirkland/Miss You/Booty Blues/self
#15 Jimmie Bratcher/I Love My Baby/Red/self
#14 Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas/Hang It High,Hang It Low/same/Rounder
#13 Nick Moss & The Flip Tops/Your Red Wagon/Live At Chans/Blue Bella
#12 The Cash Box Kings/My Little Machine/The Royal Treatment/Blue Midnight
#11 Walter Trout&Jeff Healey/Workin’ Overtime/Full Circle/RUF
#10 Guy Davis/It Takes Love To Make A Home/Skunkmello/Red House
#9 Rory Block/Preachin’ Blues/The lady & Mr. Johnson/RYKODISC
#8 Lee Gates/Black Lucy moanin’ The Blues/Black Lucy’s Deuce/Music Maker
#7 Chris Thomas King/St. James Infirmary/Rise/21st Century Blues
#6 Moreland Arbuckle & Floyd/Locomotive/Floyd’s Market/Kingsnake Blues
#5 Big George Brock/Sugar Mama/Round Two/CatHead
#4 Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials/Broken Promises/Rattleshake/Alligator
#3 Dave Gross/I’m So Hungry Blues/Take The Gamble/SwingNation
#2 Guitar Shorty/Fine Cadillac/We The People/Alligator
#1 Joe Bonamassa/I Don’t Believe/You And Me/Premier Artists

By Request

Tommy Castro/No One Left To Lie To/Soul Shaker/Blind Pig
Dave Hole/Short Fuse Blues/35x35/Alligator
Lucky Peterson/Ventilator Blues/Exile On Blues Street/Telarc

Remembering Floyd Dixon

Floyd Dixon/Hey, Bartender/Wake Up and Live!/Alligator
Floyd Dixon/I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town/Mr. Magnificent/Cottontail
Floyd Dixon/Dion’t Send Me No Flowers In The Graveyard/Wake Up and Live!/Alligator

Classic Chicago Blues

Magic Slim & The Teardrops/In The Dark/That Ain’t Right/Delmark
Otis Rush/Mean Old World/All Your Love I Miss Loving/Delmark
Joe Carter/Anna Lee/That Ain’t Right/Delmark

All New Blues

Davis Coen/You Got To Move/Can’t get There From Here/219
Julian Fauth/Poor Lazarus/Songs Of Vice & Sorrow/Electro Fi
Kilborn Alley Blues Band/The Breakaway/Put It In The Alley/Blue Bella

New Live Blues

Omar & The howlers/Mississippi HooDoo Man/Bamboozled/Ruf
Derek Trucks/I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled & Crazy/Songlines Live/Sony BMG
Bernard Allison/Talking Guitar/Talking Guitar/Energized/Ruf

CLOSE

Styx/It Don’t Make Sense/Big Bang Theory/New Door
Paul Orta&Lazy Lester/Shuffle With Lester/Same/Great Blues Recordings

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