Top 25 Blues-October 2002

by Marlee Walker-KEXP 90.3FM

This list is compiled from all the new Blues CD's we received at the Blues To Do offices (or at KEXP) during the previous month, and compiled by our Music Director, Tony Engelhart and Publisher/Blues Host, Marlee Walker. Please send two(2) copies for review & airplay consideration. Our CD reviews, written by various NW blues DJ's and fans, are quoted in the printed publication, and then posted entirely, along with this Top 25 list, each month at this website.

1. Various: When The Sun Goes Down: Vol 1-4 - Bluebird/RCA/Victor
2. Shemekia Copeland: Talking to Strangers - Alligator
3. Willie King & The Liberators: Living In A New World - Rooster
4. Albert King: Born Under A Bad Sign - Stax
5. Alvin Youngblood Hart: Down In The Alley - Memphis International
6. Etta James and the Roots Band: Burnin' Down The House - Private
7. Rick Holmstrom: Hydraulic Groove - Tone-Cool
8. Aretha Franklin: Queen In Waiting - Sony/Columbia
9. Blind Boys of Alabama: Higher Ground - Realworld
10. John & Phil Cephas & Wiggins: Somebody Told The Truth - Alligator
11. Coco Montoya: Can't Look Back - Alligator
12. John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Fattening Frogs For Snakes: The Delta Sound - Rooster/Okra-Tone
13. CeDell Davis & Friends: When Lightnin' Struck The Pine - Fast Horse
14. Magic Slim & The Teardrops: Blue Magic - Blind Pig
15. Chris Thomas King: Dirty South Hip-Hop Blues - 21st Century Blues
16. Little Milton Campbell: Guitar Man - Malaco
17. Junior Kimbrough: You Better Run - Fat Possum
18. Popa Chubby: The Good, The Bad, The Chubby - Blind Pig
19. T-Model Ford: Bad Man - Fat Possum
20. Various: Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute! - Evidence
21. Alice Stuart: Can't Find No Heaven - Burnside
22. Lightnin' Wells: Ragged But Right - Music Maker
23. Derek Trucks Band: Joyful Noise - Columbia
24. Various: A Cellar Full of Motown! - Motown
25. Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up On Me - Fat Possum