Albums, révélations, chansons, rééditions, concerts : voici ce qui a le plus marqué les membres de notre rédaction en 2021. Première partie.

Nicolas Teurnier

Nouveautés
• Oliver Wood / “Always Smilin’” (Thirty Tigers)
• Mustafa / “When Smoke Rises” (Regent Parks Songs)
• Gabriels / “Bloodline” (Warner)
• Cedric Burnside / “I Be Trying” (Single Lock)
• Delgres / “4:00 AM” (Pias)
• Yebba / “Dawn” (RCA)
• Jazmine Sullivan / “Heaux Tales” (RCA)
• Jake Isaac / “Honesty” (Autopublié)

Révélations
• BLK Odyssy / “BLK Vintage” (After School)
• Eddie 9V / “Little Black Flies” (Ruf)
• Sam Wills / “Breathe” (eOne Music)
• Lowland Brothers / “Lowland Brothers” (Wita)
• Buffalo Nichols / “Buffalo Nichols” (Fat Possum)

Titres marquants
• The battle is over (But the war goes on) / Oliver Wood
• Bloodline / Gabriels
• Stay alive / Mustafa
• Assez assez / Delgres
• Mortal / Karl Benjamin

Rééditions
• Boyd Rivers / “You Can’t Make Me Doubt” (Terminus)
• Muddy Waters / “Live In Los Angeles 1954” (GNP)
• Reverend Robert Ballinger / “The King’s Highway” (Beat Family)
• The Cobras / “Caught Live At The Continental” (Jungle)
• Leo Nocentelli / “Another Side” (Light In The Attic)

Concerts
• Mustafa / 3537, Paris
• Gabriels / Café de la Danse, Paris

Jacques Périn

Nouveautés
• Robert Finley / “Sharecropper’s Son” (Easy Eye Sound)
• Natalia M. King / “Woman Mind Of My Own” (Dixiefrog)
• Curtis Salgado / “Damage Control“ (Alligator)
• Cedric Burnside / “I Be Trying” (Single Lock)
• Allison Russell / “Outside Child” (Fantasy)
• Oliver Wood / “Always Smilin’” (Thirty Tigers)
• The True Believers / “The Sounds We Grew Up On” (Malaco)
• Awek / “Awek” (Autopublié)

Révélations
• Eddie 9V / “Little Black Flies” (Ruf)
• Lowland Brothers / album et concert au Rendez-Vous de L’Erdre
• Joy Crookes / “Skin” (Sony)
• Jackie Venson / “Love Transcends” (Autopublié)
• Buffalo Nichols / “Buffalo Nichols” (Fat Possum)

Rééditions
• Ray Charles / “Live At The Olympia, Paris 1962” (Frémeaux & Associés)
• Hip Lankchan / “Original West Side Chicago Blues” (JSP)
• Mickey Baker / “In Session – Ain’t No Strain ”(Jasmine)
• Rev. Robert Ballinger / “The King’s Highway” (Bear Family)
• “5” Royales / “Rock” (Bear Family)

Concerts
• Rick Estrin / Bay-Car Blues Festival, Grande-Synthe
• Kirk Fletcher / Rendez-Vous de l’Erdre, Sucé-sur-Erdre
• J.P. Bimeni & the Black Belts / Tempo2Rives, Angers

Julien D.

Nouveautés
• Cedric Burnside / “I Be Trying” (Single Lock)
• The Buttshakers / “Arcadia” (Underdog)
• GA-20 / “Try It… You Might Like It!” (Karma Chief-Alligator)
• Oliver Wood / “Always Smilin’” (Thirty Tigers)
• Amythyst Kiah / “Wary + Strange” (Rounder)
• Cha Wa / “My People“ (Single Lock)
• Nick Waterhouse / “Blue Promenade” (Innovative Leisure)
• Gabriels / “Bloodline” (Warner)

Révélations
• Eddie 9V (album)
• Ron Artis & The Truth (concert)
• Urban Village (album)
• Bella White (album)
• The Diasonics (album)

Titres marquants
• 4 ed maten / Delgres
• Woman / Little Simz
• Blame / Gabriels
• Fine to me / Pokey LaFarge
• Can’t stop the rain / Neal Francis 

Rééditions
• Pastor TL Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir / “I Shall Wear A Crown” (Numero Group)
• “5” Royales / “Rock” (Bear Family)
• Leo Nocentelli / “Another Side” (Light In The Attic)
• George “Harmonica” Smith and his Blues Band / “…Of The Blues” (BGO)
• Barbara George / “I Know – The A.F.O. & Sue Years” (Jasmine)

Concerts
• Ron Artis & The Truth / Nancy Jazz Pulsation
• Kirk Joseph, Sunpie Barnes, Big Chief Juan Pardo / MNOP Gran Circus, Périgueux
• The Buttshakers / Nancy Jazz Pulsation