T.K. Webb belongs to that small tribe of artists who channel the sounds of sorely missed genre pioneers so effectively (and with such unswerving solidarity) that it's almost spooky. Like Joss Stone, Jonny Lang, and Kieran McGee, Webb -- who was born Thomas Kelly Webb in 1977 in rural Missouri -- doesn't find much use for contemporary sounds. Though he recorded his 2005 full-length album -- KCK, short for Kansas City, KS -- in his adopted hometown of Brooklyn, the Delta blues are Webb's calling card, and he sings, stomps, and bats them out with conviction.
Webb picked up his g...