PLAYLIST: Smokestack Lightnin’ Dot Com #0461

Artist/Song/CD/Label

Smokestack Lightnin’s Top 60 Blues CDs for 2003 Part 2, #30 - #1

#30 Ace Moreland/Blue Light Special/Hindsight is 20-20/Kingsnake
#29 Kay Kay & The Rays/Southside Of The Tracks/Big Bad Girl/Catfood
#28 Lucky Peterson/Jody’s Got Your Girl and Gone/Black Midnight Sun/Dreyfus
#27 Lavelle White/Soul Deep/Into The Mystic/Antones
#26 Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws/Peach Tree Blues/Burnin’/Hacksaw
#25 Joe Bonamassa/Burnin’ Hell/Blues DeLuxe/Medalist
#24 Hamilton Loomis/99 Miles/Kickin’ It/Blind Pig
#23 Derek Trucks&Gregg Allman/Drown In My own Tears/Soul Serenade/Columbia
#22 Bob Margolin&Willie Smith/Juke/All Star Blues Jam/Telarc
#21 Cold Shott & The Hurricane Horns/Tore Down/If You Got The Blues/Madman
#20 Kirk Fletcher & Kim Wilson/Club Zanzibar/Shades Of Blue/Crosscut
#19 Nick Curran & The Nitelifes/Lonesome Whistle Blues/Doctor Velvet/Blind Pig
#18 Blues Evolution/I’m Gone/Blues Evolution/Inner Vision
#17 James Blood Ulmer/Goin’ To New York/No Escape From The Blues/Hyena
#16 Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King/Runnin’ Blind/Roadhouse Research/Blind Pig
#15 Sir Mack Rice/Gloria/Vanthology/Evidence
#14 Bobby Blue Bland/I’m A Blues Man/Blues at Midnight/Malaco
#13 Chris Thomas King/Hard Time Killin’ Floor/The Roots/21st Century Blues
#12 Rory Block/Travellin’ Riverside Blues/Last Fair Deal/Telarc
#11 Michael Burkes/Miss Mercy/I Smell Smoke/Alligator
#10 Roomful of Blues/That’s Right!/That’s Right!/Alligator
#9 Tab Benoit/Darkness/The Sea Saint Sessions/Telarc
#8 E.G. Kight/Southern Comfort/Southern Comfort/Blue South
#7 Ellis Hooks/Down For The Last Time/Up Your Mind/Evidence
#6 Snooky Pryor & Mel Brown/Mojo Ramble/Electro Fi
#5 James Harman/Double Hogback Growler/Lonesome Moon Trance/Pacific Blues
#4 Harmonica Shah/Baby Scratch My Back/Tell It To Your Landlord/Electro Fi
#3 Robert Cray/Time Makes Two/Time Will Tell/Sanctuary
#2 Etta James/Somebody To Love/Let’s Roll/Private Music
#1 John Lee Hooker/Six Page Letter/Face To Face/Eagle

More Honorable Mentions for 2003

Candye Kane/Whole Lotta Love/Whole Lotta Love/Ruf
Sonny Landreth/True Blue/The Road We’re On/Sugar Hill
Jimmy Thackery/Blues ‘Fore Dawn /Guitar/Blind Pig
Mavis Staples/Will Tye Circle Be Unbroken/Johnny’s Blues/Northern Blues
Harry Manx&Kevin Breit/VooDoo Chile(Slight Return)/Jubilee/Northern Blues
Eugene Hideaway Bridges/I Got The Blues/Jump The Joint/Armadillo