Crossroads Top 40 For May 2020

  1. Mark Hummel – Wayback Machine (Electro-Fi)
  2. Frank Bey – All My Dues Are Paid (NOLA Blue)
  3. Cindy Cashdollar – Waltz for Abilene (Silver Shot)
  4. John Primer & Bob Corritore – The Gypsy Woman Told Me (Vizztone)
  5. Rory Block – Prove It On Me (Stony Plain)
  6. Phantom Blues Band – Still Cookin’ (Vizztone)
  7. Chickenbone Slim – Sleeper (Lo Fi Mob)
  8. Robert Cray Band – That’s What I Heard (Nozzle)
  9. The Jimmys – Gotta Have It (Intercept)
  10. Whitney Shay – Stand Up! (Ruf)
  11. Jimmy Johnson – Every Day of Your Life (Delmark)
  12. Blind Lemon Pledge – Goin’ Home (Self)
  13. Avey Grouws Band – The Devil May Care (Avey Grouws Band)
  14. Casey Hensley – Good As Gone (Vizztone)
  15. Dave Specter – Blues from the Inside Out (Delmark)
  16. Forrest McDonald Band – Blues In a Bucket (World Talent)
  17. Sass Jordan – Rebel Moon Blues (Stony Plain)
  18. Andrew Alli – Hard Workin’ Man (EllerSoul)
  19. Ryan Perry – High Risk, Low Reward (Ruf)
  20. Crystal Shawanda – Church House Blues (True North)
  21. Jim Gustin/Truth Jones – Lessons Learned (Jim Gustin and Truth Jones)
  22. Roomful of Blues – In a Roomful of Blues (Alligator)
  23. Ben Rice/RB Stone – Out of the Box (Middle Mountain Music)
  24. 11 Guys Quartet – Small Blues and Grooves (Vizztone)
  25. Rae Gordon Band – Wrong Kind of Love (Rae Gordon Music)
  26. King Solomon Hicks – Harlem (Provogue)
  27. T-Bone Walker – T-Bone Jumps Again (Jasmine)
  28. The Proven Ones – You Ain’t Done (Gulf Coast)
  29. Joanna Connor – Rise (M.C. Records)
  30. B.B. King – Golden Decade: Nothing But Hits (Jasmine)
  31. Zakiya Hooker – Legacy (Zakiya Hooker)
  32. Jimmy Carpenter – Soul Doctor (Gulf Coast)
  33. Various Artists – Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues (World Music Network)
  34. Johnny Adams - Meets Lee Dorsey (Jasmine)
  35. James Hunter Six – Nick of Time (Daptone)
  36. Chanda Rule + Sweet Emma Band – Hold On (PAO)
  37. Al Basile – B’s Hothouse (SweetSpot)
  38. Watermelon Slim – Traveling Man (Northern Blues)
  39. Liz Mandeville – Playing with Fire (Blue Kitty Music)
  40. Tinsley Ellis – Ice Cream in Hell (Alligator)

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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.