Michael Hill's Blues Mob: Have Mercy CD (1997) Alligator ALCD 4845.  The outstanding guitarist’s second album melds acute social awareness with a modern blues approach to problems of bigotry, homelessness, street violence, gender equality, and other topics using high-decibel rock, funk, and reggae that is filled with great musicianship, lots of great guitar solos, and including Chicago Blues Festival and Memphis. Highlights: Stagolee/Perspctive, a great version of Hound Dog Tayler’s She’s Gone and the political commentary and (again) great guitar of Evil Spell: “The thieves are in the temple…”   Awesome!