Is it okay if I say he's a bit of a moaner? His voice is very familiar from years of listening to Australian radio. But I'm just not sure about modern Oz blues. I want to say it's a bit thin. Probably an unfair comment.
The old blues and r&b stuff I'm listening to these days is just found singles. The genre called "Northern soul" has blues and r&B at one end and disco at the other, and motown in the middle. That's where I'm finding this stuff - collections of singles from that dance movement. I have always been a singles listener rather than an album guy, so the gigantic "keeping the faith" collections you find online are tailor made for me.