The late Muddy Waters is in the blood, soul and heart of Mud Morganfield.

Greg Prevost of the Chesterfield Kings is in a stripped-to-the-bone solo acoustic traditional blues mode.

Like Piazza himself, this restless delight never stays in one place for long.

Add a blues belter, and this little-heard early-1970s Stooges demo is reborn.

Here are the seven best albums outside of realm of jazz so far in 2014. So says me.

They pay tribute to a blues great, yet create an album that is very much their own.

‘Good News,’ like all Ronnie Earl & The Broadcaster records since their 1990 debut, is where intense soul and stylish exploits intersect.

Facing what seemed like a certain doom, Walter Trout pushed back – hard.

White’s “old, yet new” vibe again has him brilliantly mixing seemingly unrelated styles.

Ford’s deep dive into his own record collection revealed a stone-cold classic.