As has been the case in so many years, 2024 has brought me so much excellent, interesting, entertaining, sometimes thought provoking and often very original new music and my sincere thanks go to everyone who sent in albums for me to play on the award-winning Digital Blues.
In 2024 I received more than 300 albums and choosing my favourite fifteen was very difficult – I could, with little extra effort, made it my terrific twenty-five or my favourite fifty! But I wanted to stick with the previous format so fifteen it is and here they are, in strict alphabetical order! So the position of an album on the page does not reflect a chart position!
I know that my choices will not meet with universal approval, indeed there may be many who simply ask ‘Who?’
There will be others who will ask ‘where’s the blues’? There always are!
But I think you will find that these fifteen albums reflect the wide and eclectic variety of music which I try to bring you each week on Digital Blues and I will be pleased if you come across some stuff you have not heard before.
You can hear tracks from these fifteen albums plus 14 more that I really enjoyed in the editions of Digital Blues which first aired in the weeks commencing 29th December, 2024 and 5th January 2025, podcasts of which are available on RSS.com at https://rss.com/podcasts/digital-blues-podcast/1818567/ and https://rss.com/podcasts/digital-blues-podcast/1822064/ and on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/DigitalBlues/week-commencing-29th-december-2024-review-of-2024-part-2/ and https://www.mixcloud.com/DigitalBlues/week-commencing-5th-january-2025-review-of-2024-part-2/
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