The recent
Walter Trout with friends album ain't bad. Good call
Gov't Mule. Excellent call
Songlines.
Robben Ford has his moments, although out of the jazz fusion guitarists who play blues as well, I much prefer
Scott Henderson's blues albums -
Tore Down House and
Dog Party. Check out
Blue Floyd, bluesing up
PF.
In passing having found another obscure
Mike Bloomfield album in a sale last week - but his singing is bloody painful most of the time and there isn't enough of his trademark guitar playing - I have to ask those who know of this late great guitarist's work, which album would they say is the definitive one? I know of the Sony Rootn'Blues label career compilation and the compilation of radio broadcasts from the Old Waldorff, half the
Supersession album (but
Al Kooper isn't a great vocalist either and let's forget their
Live Adventures), so I have to think it might be the LP version of
Mike Bloomfield & Friends Live At The Fillmore - which is now found in part on the CD version of
Nick Gravenites' My Labors. BTW thought the Sony lable were about to CD issue the
Gravenites/Bloomfield soundtrack for the movie
Steelyard Blues last Spring but it didn't happen.