Consumer Guide Album

The Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues [World Music Network, 2020]
There are definitely treasures here, but too few of these picks pack quite enough melody and/or drive (Josh White, "I Don't Intend to Die in Egypt Land"; Washington Phillips, "A Mother's Last Word to Her Daughter"; Blind Joe Taggert, "Religion Is Something Within You"; Rev. Emmett Dickenson, "Death of Blind Lemon") ***