- Mavis Staples – Live in London (Anti-)
- Big Joe & the Dynaflows – Rockhouse Party (Severn)
- Charley Crockett – Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza (Thirty Tigers)
- Rosie Flores – Simple Case of the Blues (Last Music)
- Benny Turner/Cash McCall – Going Back Home (NOLA Blue)
- Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne – Inspired by the Blues (Stony Plain)
- Bloodest Saxophone – Texas Queens 5 (Vizztone)
- Walter Trout – Survivor Blues (Provogue)
- Rockin’ Johnny Burgin/Quique Gomez – Dos Hombres Wanted (Vizztone)
- Brandon Isaak – Rise ‘n’ Shine (Brandon Isaak)
- Willie Buck – Willie Buck Way (Delmark)
- Atomic Road Kings – Clean Up the Blood (Big Tone)
- Kevin Burt – Heartland and Soul (Little Village Foundation)
- Chris O’Leary – Seven Minutes Late (American Showplace Music)
- Tommy Castro & the Painkillers – Killin’ It Live (Alligator)
- Paul Oscher – Cool Cat (Blues Fidelity)
- Fiona Boyes – Voodoo in the Shadows (Reference)
- Sean Chambers – Welcome to My Blues (American Showplace Music)
- Nick Schnebelen – Crazy All By Myself (Nick Schnebelen)
- John Mayall – Nobody Told Me (Forty Below)
- Rev. Shawn Amos – Kitchen Table Blues, Vol. 1 (Put Together Music)
- Kentucky Headhunters – Live at the Ramblin’ Man Fair (Alligator)
- Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson – Amour (Stony Plain)
- Dustin Arbuckle & the Damnations – Hook &* Ladder Theater (Dustin Arbuckle)
- James ‘Buddy’ Rogers – Everytime (JBR)
- Katarina Pejak – Roads That Cross (Ruf)
- Michael Jerome Browne – That’s Where It’s At (Borealis)
- Tedeschi Trucks Band – Signs (Fantasy)
- Watermelon Slim – Church of the Blues (Northern Blues)
- Knickerbocker All Stars – Love Makes a Woman (JP Cadillac)
- Dave Keller – Every Soul’s A Star (Catfood)
- Kirk Fletcher – Hold On (Kirk Fletcher)
- Doug Deming & the Jewel Tones – Complicated Mess (Ellersoul)
- Steve Krase Band – Just Waitin’ (Connor Ray Music)
- Tomislav Goluban – Chicago Rambler (Spona)
- Eric Gales – The Bookends (Provogue)
- Keith Stone & Red Gravy – Keith Stone & Red Gravy (Keith Stone & Red Gravy)
- Jeremiah Johnson – Straitjacket (Ruf)
- Lindsey Beaver – Tough as Love (Alligator)
- Dirty Red & the Soul Shakers – Cloudless Day (Dirty Red)
Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.