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Listen to the Sound of Burning Souls! Raising a Glass to Joanne Shaw Taylor, Erja Lyytinen, and the Frontlines of Modern Blues-Rock When the night breeze starts carrying a slight chill, even cheap liquor loses its sharp edge and tastes strangely good. Good evening, this is Memphis Ray. Tonight, once again with a glass of diluted whiskey and melting ice in hand, I’m sitting by the turntable, grooving and groaning all by myself. While the rest of the world burns through trends at breakneck speed, what about us blues nuts? We’re all terminal cases who willingly dove feet-first into the bottomless pit of "three chords and twelve bars"—a structure unchanged for a century—never to escape for the rest of our lives. Even when the doctor tells us to "cut back on the salt," we just can’t kick that overly salty bite (or bad habit) in a screaming guitar string bend. Well, good news has arrived for all you incurable blues addicts. Blues Rock Review has dropped their latest "Blues Rock Weekly," rounding up the hottest acts to watch. Just glancing at the lineup is enough to catch the scent of glowing-red vacuum tubes burning up in an amp. …