Daughter of the Blues: Shemekia Copeland

Blues as Inheritance: Kenny Neal's "Bloodline"

Natural Disaster: Bessie Smith's "Back Water Blues"

Muddy Waters: My Home Is in the Delta

Blues and Zydeco: Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers?

Toronzo Cannon: "Bad Contract"

B. B. King Tells a Tale: "Sweet Sixteen"

Lonnie Johnson: Revealer of Deceit

Buddy Guy: Keeping the Blues Fresh

Pain behind the Happiness: Billy Boy Arnold

Albert Collins: Master of the Telecaster

Christmas Blues

Canadian Blues: The Jeff Healey Band

Love of Young Women: Muddy Waters's "She's Nineteen Years Old"

Guilt: Robert Cray's "Right Next Door (Because of Me)"

The Nighthawks: Blues from DC

The Mannish Boys: Having Fun

Anger out in the Cold: Muddy Waters's "Nine Below Zero"

Keb' Mo': Updated Delta Blues

Tab Benoit: Women and/as Cars