Music Tracking 2021

These are 2021 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

Option selectors:

• Include priority 0, exclude rated.
• Just priority 2+, exclude rated.
• Rated only.
• Unrated only.
• Default (priority 1+ and rated).

Genre switches (selection not implemented yet):

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• Electronica
• Hip-Hop
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New Releases

• Eric Bibb: Dear America (Provogue) [10-10] - blues [**]
• Selwyn Birchwood: Living in a Burning House (Alligator) [01-29] - blues [*]
• Joe Bonamassa: Time Clocks (Provogue) [10-29] - blues rock
• Big Chief Monk Boudreux: Bloodstains & Teardrops (Whiskey Bayou) - Louisiana blues [*]
• Buffalo Nichols: Buffalo Nichols (Fat Possum) [10-15] - blues
• Cedric Burnside: I Be Trying (Single Lock) [06-25] - blues [**]
• Tommy Castro: A Bluesman Came to Town () - blues
• Merry Clayton: Beautiful Scars (Motown) [04-09] - gospel
• Steve Cropper: Fire It Up (Provogue) [04-23] - blues [**]
• Guy Davis: Be Ready When I Call You (MC) [06-04] - blues [***]
• Robert Finley: Sharecropper's Son (Easy Eye Sound) [05-21] - blues [***]
• Sue Foley: Pinky's Blues (Stony Plain) [10-22] - blues [A-]
• GA-20: GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor: Try It . . . You Might Like It! (Karma Chief/Alligator) [08-20] - blues [**]
• Corey Harris: Insurrection Blues (CRS) [11-17] - blues [**]
• Christone Kingfish Ingram: 662 (Alligator) [07-23] - blues [*]
• James: All the Colours of You (Virgin) [06-04] - Britpop
• Elizabeth King & the Gospel Souls: Living in the Last Days (Big Legal Mess) [04-02] - gospel
• Mick Kolassa: Uncle Mick's Christmas Album (Endless Blues) [10-15] - blues [B]
• Dan Kroha: Detroit Blues () - blues
• Veronica Lewis: You Ain't Unlucky (Blue Heart) - blues [***]
• Maria Muldaur With Tuba Skinny: Let's Get Happy Together (Stony Plain) [05-07] - blues [A-]
• The Ed Palermo Big Band: I've Got News for You: The Music of Edgar Winter (Sky Cat) [10-15] - big band blues [C+]
• Charlie Parr: Last of the Better Days Ahead (Smithsonian Folkways) - blues
• Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band: Dance Songs for Hard Times (Family Owned) [04-09] - blues [A-]
• Queen Esther: Gild the Black Lily (EL) [03-26] - blues [A-]
• Curtis Salgado: Damage Control (Alligator) [02-26] - blues [*]
• Ghalia Volt: One Woman Band (Ruf) [01-29] - blues [**]
• Carolyn Wonderland: Tempting Fate (Alligator) [10-08] - blues [**]

Reissues, Etc.

• TL Barrett: I Shall Wear a Crown (Numero Group) [09-24] - gospel
• Rev Alex Bradford: Feel Like Running for the Lord: Early Recordings 1951 to 1961 (City Hall) - gospel
• Lightnin' Hopkins: King of Dowling Street (Sunset Blvd) - blues
• Bobo Jenkins: Decoration Day Blues (Soul Jazz) - blues
• Bobo Jenkins: My All New Life Story (Third Man) [06-12] - blues
• John Mayall: The First Generation 1965-1974 (Madfish Music -35CD) - blues-rock
• New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers: Volume 2 (2007, Stony Plain) [03-26] - blues [**]
• Professor Longhair: The Bach of Rock (Sunset Blvd -20) - r&b
• Jimmie Vaughan: The Pleasure's All Mine (The Last Music Co -20) - blues
• Jimmie Vaughan: The Jimmie Vaughan Story [Deluxe Edition] () - blues
• Muddy Waters: The Montreux Years (BMG) [08-27] - blues
• Deniece Williams: Free: The Columbia/ARC Recordings 1976-1988 () - soul
• Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserocking Music (Alligator -3CD) [04-03] - blues
• Chicago/The Blues/Today! (1966, RSD) [06-12] - blues
• Blue Muse (Music Maker Foundation -19) [2019-02-01] - blues [***]
• Modern Love (BBE) [05-28] - David Bowie tribute [**]
• Sacred Soul of North Carolina (Bible & Tire) [10-15] - gospel [A-]
• Turn Me Loose White Man (1900-60, Constant Sorrow, 30CD) - Americana [A]

Priority Counts

• Priority 1: 20
• Priority 2: 1
• Priority 3: 0
• Priority 4: 23
• Priority 5: 2

Total: 46