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Crossroads Top 40 Albums For August 2018

  1.   Shemekia Copeland – America’s Child (Alligator)
  2. Bruce Katz Band – Get Your Groove! (American Showplace Music)
  3. Boz Scaggs – Out of the Blues (Concord)
  4. Various Artists – Tribute: Delmark’s 65th Anniversary (Delmark)
  5. Joe Bonamassa – British Blues Explosion Live (J&R Adventures)
  6. Buddy Guy – The Blues Is Alive and Well (Silvertone/RCA)
  7. Deb Ryder – Enjoy the Ride (Vizztone)
  8. Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio – Something Smells Funny ‘Round Here (Alligator)
  9. Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – Run to Me (Gypsy Soul)
  10. Bob Corritore & Friends – Don’t Let the Devil Ride! (Vizztone)
  11. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Downey to Lubbock (Yep Roc)
  12. Kid Ramos – Old School (Rip Cat)
  13. Nick Moss Band – The High Cost of Low Living (Alligator)
  14. Eugene Hideaway Bridges – Live in Tallahassee (Armadillo)
  15. Tom Hambridge – The NOLA Sessions (Sugar Shake Factory)
  16. Billy Price – Reckoning (Vizztone)
  17. Curtis Salgado/Alan Hagar – Rough Cut (Alligator)
  18. Myles Goodwyn – And Friends of the Blues (Linus)
  19. Trudy Lynn – Blues Keep Knockin’ (Connor Ray Music)
  20. Cyril Neville – Endangered Species: The Essential Recordings of Cyril Neville (World Order)
  21. Rory Block – A Woman’s Soul (Stony Plain)
  22. Big Harp George – Uptown Cool (Blues Mountain)
  23. Bob Lanza Blues Band – Kids, Dogs & Krazy Women (Connor Ray Music)
  24. Steve Krase Band – Just Waitin’ (Connor Ray Music)
  25. Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps – Here in Babylon (Jesi-Lu)
  26. Original Chicago Blues All Stars – Gold (Original Chicago Blues All Stars)
  27. Joyann Parker – Hard to Love (Joyann Parker)
  28. Al Basile – Me and the Originator (SweetSpot)
  29. Various artists – Chicago Plays the Stones (Raisin’ Music)
  30. Various artists – Rough Guide to Hokum Blues (World Music Network)
  31. Marcia Ball – Shine Bright (Alligator)
  32. Rockwell Avenue Blues Band – Back to Chicago (Delmark)
  33. James Harman – Fineprint (Electro-Fi)
  34. Kat Riggins – In the Boy’s Club (Bluzpik)
  35. Grand Marquis – Brighter Days (Grand Marquis Music)
  36. Keeshea Pratt Band – Believe (KPB)
  37. Lurrie Bell & the Bell Dynasty – Tribute to Carey Bell (Delmark)
  38. Savoy Brown – You Should Have Been There (Panache)
  39. Suzie Vinnick – Shake the Love Around (Suzie Vinnick)
  40. Sue Foley – The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)

Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.