Disappointments: Well, where do you want to begin? One of the biggest in terms of live gig what-should-have-beens was Lucky Peterson cancelling festival and club dates back in September.

Why so disappointing? Well The Son of a Bluesman (Jazz Village), Lucky’s latest, is the sort of blues album you might think doesn’t, or just couldn’t, exist any more. To catch a slice of the live action in its wake tantalising to say the very least.

Featuring the titanic drums of Raul Valdes well captured in this Dallas studio album made in June 2013, the ‘listening’ bass guitar of Timothy Waites, and lively soulful guitar of Shawn Kellerman, The Son of a Bluesman is about renewal: dusting yourself down and getting on with life.

Original compositions ‘Nana Jarnell’, with some of the best guitar playing on the whole album on this sensitive Bobby Blue Bland-styled song, ‘Boogie-Woogie Blues Joint Party’, the regretful but stoic ‘I’m Still Here’, tender but tough autobiographical title track ‘The Son of a Bluesman’, ‘You Lucky Dog’, and a cover of Bobby Blue’s ‘I Pity the Fool’ from Two Steps From the Blues arranged like a Ray Charles record with a great opening thump to it, the words tumbling out of Lucky's mouth, just some of the many treasures here.

The good news, disappointment be damned, is Lucky’s coming in the end appearing now at Vicar Street in Dublin on 12 March.