 | Deluxe Edition by Lonnie Brooks
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.97 No one has come along and replaced Muddy Waters yet, but there are some excellent contemporary blues artists out there nevertheless. Like Lonnie Brooks, whose Alligator recordings can be sampled here
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 | Live from Chicago by Lonnie Brooks
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.00 "Deluxe Edition" is a great place to start appreciating Brooks' tough Louisiana "swamp blues", and "Live In Chicago" is almost as good
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 | Hoodoo Moon by Kenny Neal
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.64 Harpist Raful Neal's son Kenny is perhaps the greatest of all contemporary bluesmen. He has yet to make a bad record, and this is probably his best yet, one of the finest blues records of the 90s
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 | Bayou Blood by Kenny Neal
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.89 Almost all of Kenny's albums are remarkably consistent....
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 | Devil Child by Kenny Neal
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 ...and musically varied, too. Rather than simply drawing on the classics, Neal writes or co-writes almost all of the material on his albums himself....
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 | One Step Closer by Kenny Neal
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.46 ....and his switch from Alligator records to Telarc has in no way dimmed his remarkable talents as both a vocalist, a songwriter and an instrumentalist
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 | What You Got by Kenny Neal & Noel Neal
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.50 This one is a bit more soul-flavoured than his earlier releases
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 | Fever for the Bayou by Tab Benoit
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $9.13 Tab Benoit got a lot of kudos for this 2005 album, and with good reason, too
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 | Nice & Warm by Tab Benoit
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.49 His 1992 debut album would be a good place to start as well, though, a fresh and gutsy set of electric blues
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 | The Son Seals Blues Band by Son Seals
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.49 The self-styled "Bad Axe", Frank 'Son' Seals, passed away last year. He was equipped with a rough, gravelly singing voice, perfect for singing the blues....
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 | Midnight Son by Son Seals
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $8.27 ...and these are two of his best albums. Biting lead guitar lines blending with a R&B-styled horn section
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 | Deluxe Edition by Son Seals
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.44 Or how about a good compilation for starters?
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 | Royal Blue by Koko Taylor
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.50 Koko Taylor is not all that contemporary, perhaps....she started recording for Chess records in the 60s under the guidance of the great Willie Dixon
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 | Force of Nature by Koko Taylor
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.97 But she is still out there recording and touring, and these two latter-day releases are among her best and most consistent
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 | I Got What It Takes by Koko Taylor
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.24 Like former labelmate Kenny Neal, Koko Taylor's albums are usually very consistent as well. This was her first LP for Alligator records, another career highlight
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 | Live From Chicago : An Audience With The Queen by Koko Taylor
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.67 Fine live album here as well, featuring a couple of rarities, like the supremely groovy "Going Back To Iuka" and the slow grind of "Devil's Gonna Have A Field Day"
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 | The Earthshaker by Koko Taylor
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.99 Yeah, this one is great as well :-)
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 | The Progressive Blues Experiment by Johnny Winter
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.00 Texas guitarist Johnny Winter is sorta contemporary, and while he sometimes strays from the blues, he has also made some of the best blues albums by a white artist. Like this, his debut LP
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 | Johnny Winter by Johnny Winter
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $8.70 And this wonderful expanded edition of his first Columbia record
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 | White Hot & Blue by Johnny Winter
For this white-hot slice of blues to be out of print is a crime. Plain and simple
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 | Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.20 No white boy played the blues any better than the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan. His 1983 debut album was one of the two or three greatest blues records of the 80s. At least
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 | Couldn't Stand the Weather by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.15 This one is almost as good, particularly in this remastered and vastly expanded edition
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 | Live at Carnegie Hall by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.15 Tremendous live album here
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 | Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Buy new: $36.47 / Used from: $25.84 And this is one of the very best box sets on the market, one which works as a career overview and adds something new for the longtime fan as well. A+
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 | From the Cradle by Eric Clapton
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.01 Looking in vain for Eric Clapton? Well....he doesn't record a whole lot of blues anymore, does he? But this one is still a classic
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