The Delmark, Rounder and Black Top labels insure that fall will offer up a bountiful harvest of blues albums.

Is there any coincidence in the fact that we have designated November, election month, as blues month? The late Republican “strategist” Lee Atwater was a noted blues aficionado and guitarist. At the Democratic rally in Woldenberg Park last month, Governor Clinton told me he’d love to play sax on “I’m Walkin’” with Fats Domino. Whatever your politics, it’s been a pr...