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Tahoe Onstage music critic Tom Clarke makes his picks for the best blues and roots albums of 2022. Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am The Moon” gets the nod for number 1. The remaining records are in no particular order: Tinsley Ellis, Hot Buttered Rum, Buddy Guy, Little Feat, Jack Pearson, Marcus King, Greensky Bluegrass, Jimmy Hall, John Nemeth, Paul Cauthen, Tim Gartland and Bywater Call

Ace of Blues, Angela Strehli's first album in over 17 years is a momentous event by any standard, made even more vital as it marks the relaunch of Antone’s Records, in partnership with New West Records.

Mighty Mike Schermer gathers an A-List crew for his Little Village debut. Dennis Johnsons slide slithers like a snake. Gina Sicilia resurrects Rev. Gary Davis. The Hogtown Allstars go "Hog Wild." Corky Siegel is a one-of-a-kind harmonica man, the likes of which youve NEVER heard.

Visit "Electric City" with Early Times & The High Rollers. Ryan Lee Crosby mixes Delta Blues with Hindustani slide guitar. Al Basile edges closer and closer to Sinatra. Lyle Odjick is a Blues Super Hero. The Dig 3 play pure organic natural blues thats good for you.

Singer makes record with Elvin Bishop before career-threatening surgery

Al Basile, blues man with a different instrument, debuts his "most fully realized" record in a long career.

Top blues acts including Uncle Charlie and the Meatballs and Nate Gross Band are on the bill at blues picnic at Sylvan Beach Village Waterfront Park.

This months Bluesology column covers Kenny "Blues Boy" Wayne resurrecting the tour that Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim played together; Diunna Greenleaf as the last of the red-hot mamas; Lew Jetton & 61 South running the hoodoo down after 30 years of dive bars and Koko Mojo doing it again for the 19th time with its "Southern Bred Louisiana RhythmnBlues Rockers."

Five things to do: Comedy, crafts, blues and more ...

A concert for late guitarist Sonny Rhodes and new albums celebrating the sounds of Oakland are part of a movement to honor elders in the Black music community.