The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Blues Album Chart
for the Week of Aug 23, 2025

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King Size
by: Big Shoes

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Label: Qualified
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One Hour Mama: the Blues of Victoria Spivey
by: Maria Muldaur

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Label: Nola Blue
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Right on Time
by: John Christopher Morgan

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Label: Self-Release
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4
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3
Unequivocally Blue
by: Gina Coleman

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Label: Guitar One
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16
Black & Gold
by: Joanne Shaw Taylor

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Label: Journeyman
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9
Look out Highway
by: Charlie Musselwhite

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Label: Forty Below
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18
Heartbreak City
by: Larry McCray

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Label: The Blues Alive
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15
It's My Time
by: Jimi 'Prime Time' Smith

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Label: New Folk
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9
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13
Grown in Mississippi
by: John Primer

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Label: Blues House
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10
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14
Live to Be This
by: The Boneshakers

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Label: Gulf Coast
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11
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5
Other Side of Blue
by: Misty Blues

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12
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4
Keep Living Til I Die
by: Monster Mike Welch

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13
LW
12
Roadhouses, Juke Joints and Honky-Tonks
by: Rusty Ends & HillBilly Hoodoo

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Label: Earwig
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14
LW
20
Back for Me
by: Janiva Magness

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Label: Blue Elan
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15
LW
19
A Bluesman of Sorts
by: Reverend Freakchild

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Label: Treated & Released
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24
The Great Women in Blues (Feat. Terrie Odabi) [Live]
by: Lisa Mann's Northwestern All-Stars

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17
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27
Live at the Song Theater
by: Debbie Bond

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Label: Blues Root
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18
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39
Truth is
by: Carolyn Wonderland

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Label: Alligator
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19
LW
65
I Love Freddie King
by: Popa Chubby

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Label: Gulf Coast
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20
LW
2
Our Time to Ride (feat. Annika Chambers & Paul Deslauriers)
by: Chambers Deslauriers

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Label: Forty Below
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21
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25
Shades of Trouble
by: Kyle Culkin

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Label: Tonebucker
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22
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10
Light It Up
by: Long Tall Deb & Colin John

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Label: Vizztone
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23
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8
California Trap
by: Andrew Duncanson

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Label: Run It Back
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24
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7
Breakthrough
by: Joe Bonamassa

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Label: J&R Adventures
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25
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26
Just Stay High
by: The Alexis P. Suter Band

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Label: Big Mama
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26
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Take the Edge off
by: Travellin' Blue

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Label: Naked Productions
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27
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40
Blues is Still Alive
by: Will Wilde

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Label: VizzTone
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28
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6
Live in Clarksdale
by: Christopher Wyze & The Tellers

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Label: Big Radio
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29
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30
Blues Power
by: Big Al & the Heavyweights

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Label: VizzTone
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Young Fashioned Ways
by: Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd

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Label: Deep Rush
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34
Bob Corritore & Friends: Doin' the Shout
by: Bob Corritore

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Label: VizzTone
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11
Which Way Do We Go?
by: Brandon Santini

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Label: Momojo
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33
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50
New Southern Vintage
by: Candice Ivory

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Label: Nola Blue
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34
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22
Family
by: Southern Avenue

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Label: Alligator
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38
Good Intentions Gone Bad
by: Chris Cain

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Label: Alligator
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35
August Moon
by: Allison August

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Label: Momojo
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Hired Hand
by: Geoff Arsenault

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38
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43
Blues Without You
by: Larry McCray

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Label: Keeping The Blues Alive
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28
Strike Up the Band
by: Little Feat

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Label: Hot Tomato
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40
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33
106 Miles to Chicago
by: The B. Christopher Band

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Label: Guitar One
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45
Strange Things Happening
by: Kid Ramos

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Label: Nola Blue
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Seattle to Greaseland
by: Joel Astley

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Label: Blue Heart
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32
The Hits Keep Coming
by: Rick Estrin & the Nightcats

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Label: Alligator
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62
Go Be Free
by: Sonny Gullage

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Label: Blind Pig
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45
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83
The Road to Memphis
by: Melon Jelly

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Label: Melon Jelly
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41
All My Love for You
by: Bobby Rush

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Label: Deep Rush
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47
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37
Blame It on Eve
by: Shemekia Copeland

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Label: Alligator
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48
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44
I Hear Thunder
by: Tab Benoit

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Label: Whiskey Bayou
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Downtown Ways
by: Citizen Jones

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Label: 7338611 Records DK
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48
Capricorn
by: Eddie 9V

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