- Bettye LaVette – Things Have Changed (Verve)
- Sue Foley – The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)
- Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa – Black Coffee (J&R Adventures)
- Curtis Salgado/Alan Hagar – Rough Cut (Alligator)
- Victor Wainwright & the Train – Victor Wainwright & the Train (Ruf)
- James Hunter Six – Whatever It Takes (Daptone)
- Muddy Gurdy – Muddy Gurdy (Vizztone)
- Mud Morganfield – They Call Me Mud (Severn)
- Johnny Tucker – Seven Day Blues (High John)
- Nick Moss Band – The High Cost of Low Living (Alligator)
- Various Artists – Hard Core Harp (Electro Fi)
- John Mayall – Three for the Road (Forty Below)
- Barrence Whitfield & the Savages – Soul Flowers of Titan (Bloodshot)
- Peter Parcek – Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (Lightnin’)
- Rae Gordon Band – Better Than I Was (Rae Gordon Music)
- James Armstrong – Blues Been Good to Me (Catfood)
- Jim Byrnes – Long Hot Summer Days (Black Hen)
- Bernard Allison – Let It Go (Ruf)
- Reverend Ravem & the Chain Smoking Altar Boys -My Life (Nevermore)
- Tinsley Ellis – Winning Hard (Alligator)
- Orphan Jon & the Abandoned – Abandoned No More (Rip Cat)
- Danielle Nicole – Cry No More (Concord)
- Janiva Magness – Love Is an Army (Blues Elan)
- Coco Montoya – Hard Truth (Alligator)
- Duke Robillard - …and His Dames of Rhythm (M.C. Records)
- Chris Daniels & the Kings – Blues with Horns Vol. 1 (Moon Voyage)
- The Rev. Shawn Amos – Breaks It Down (Put Together)
- Albert Cummings – Live at the ’62 Center (Ivy Music)
- Tommy Castro – Stomping Ground (Alligator)
- Mavis Staples – If All I was Was Black (Anti-)
- Laurie Morvan – Gravity (Screaming Lizard)
- Greg Sover – Jubilee (Grounded Soul)
- Dave Bartholomew – Jump Children (Jasmine)
- Various artists – Howlin’ at Greaseland (West Tone)
- Wee Willie Walker & the Andy Paule Soul Orchestra – After a While (Blue Dot)
- Al Basile – Quiet Money (SweetSpot)
- Bonerama – Hot Like Fire (Basin Street)
- Peter Karp – Blue Flame (Rose Cottage)
- Altered Five Blues Band – Charmed and Dangerous (Blind Pig)
- Benny Turner – My Brother’s Blues (Nola Blue)