December 25, 1998, 9:00-11:00 p.m.
Host: Peter Welch
Selections from my top 20 new Blues releases of 1998.
| Song Title | Artist | Album | Label & Format |
| Dew Drop Out | The Yockamo All-Stars | Dew Drop Out | Hannibal CD |
| Take Yo' Hand Off a Me | Robert "Bilbo" Walker | Rompin' and Stompin' | Fedora CD |
| Cool Blues Walk | Eddie Clearwater | Cool Blues Walk | Bullseye Blues & Jazz CD |
| Going for the Money | James Andrews | Satchmo of the Ghetto | Nyno CD |
| God Trying to Get Your Attention | Keb' Mo' | Slow Down | Sony/Okeh CD |
| It's Midnight Baby | Roy Gaines | Bluesman for Life | JSP CD |
| Feel Like Blowing My Horn | Robert Lockwood Jr. | I Got to Find Me a Woman | Verve CD |
| Crazy Woman | Magic Slim & The Teardrops | Black Tornado | Blind Pig CD |
| Bad Case of Love | B.B. King | Blues on the Bayou | MCA CD |
| Build Myself a Mansion | Lurrie Bell | Kiss of Sweet Blues | Delmark CD |
| New Age Woman Blues | Roy Bookbinder | Polk City Ramble | Rounder CD |
| For Whom the Horn Honks | Sax Gordon | Have Horn Will Travel | Bullseye Blues & Jazz CD |
| You Don't Miss Your Water | Johnny Adams | Man of My Word | Rounder CD |
| Red Mud | Chris Thomas King | Red Mud | Black Top CD |
| Young Mama | Olu Dara | In the World | Atlantic CD |
| Lyin' in the Name of Love | Joe Louis Walker | Preacher and the President | Verve CD |
| Here for the Music | James Armstrong | Dark Night | Hightone CD |
| Witchin' Moon | James Armstrong | Dark Night | Hightone CD |
| Best I Can | Guy Davis | You Don't Know My Mind | Red House Records CD |
| How Could I Be Such a Fool | Phillip Walker | I Got a Sweet Tooth | Black Top CD |
| Crapshoot | James Harman | Takin' Chances | Cannonball Records CD |
| Keep the Money | Larry Garner | Standing Room Only | Ruf Records CD |