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Crossroads Top 40 For October 2020

KMUW | By Chris Heim
Published November 1, 2020 at 8:00 AM CST

  1. Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Rise Up (Stony Plain)
  2. Sugar Ray & the Bluetones – Too Far from the Bar (Severn)
  3. New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers – Vol. 1 (Stony Plain)
  4. Sonny Green – Found! One Soul Singer (Little Village Foundation)
  5. Johnny Iguana – Chicago Spectacular (Delmark)
  6. Crooked Eye Tommy – Hot Coffee and Pain (Blue Heart)
  7. Kirsten Thien – Two Sides (Screen Door)
  8. Lucky Losers – Godless Land (Vizztone)
  9. Alex Dixon – The Real McCoy (Dixon Landing)
  10. Peter Parcek – Mississippi Suitcase (Lightnin’)
  11. Roomful of Blues – In a Roomful of Blues (Alligator)
  12. Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues (Alligator)
  13. Vanessa Collier – Heart on the Line (Phenix Fire)
  14. Bettye LaVette – Blackbirds (Verve)
  15. Shirley King – Blues for a King (Cleopatra)
  16. Johnny Nicholas – Mistaken Identity (Valour)
  17. Maceo Parker – Soul Food (The Funk Garage)
  18. Backtrack Blues Band – Your Baby Has Left (Vizztone)
  19. Johnny Burgin – No Border Blues (Delmark)
  20. Linsey Alexander – Live at Rosa’s (Delmark)
  21. John Nemeth – Stronger Than Strong (NOLA Blue)
  22. Misty Blues – Weed ‘Em And Reap (Misty Blues)
  23. Dion – Blues with Friends (KTBA)
  24. Fiona Boyes – Blues in My Heart (Reference)
  25. Al Basile – Last Hand (SweetSpot)
  26. Allman Betts Band – Bless Your Heart (BMG)
  27. Bette Smith – The Good, The Bad and the Bette (Ruf)
  28. Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam – Ain’t No Man A Good Man (Mescal Canyon)
  29. Ruthie Foster – Live at the Paramount (Blue Corn)
  30. Joe Louis Walker – Blues Comin’ On (Cleopatra)
  31. The Nighthawks – Tryin’ to Get to You (Eller Soul)
  32. Lisa Mills – The Triangle (BMG)
  33. Samoa Wilson & The Jim Kweskin Band – I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)
  34. Kat Riggins – Cry Out (Gulf Coast)
  35. Peter Karp – Magnificent Heart (ZYX)
  36. Walter Trout – Ordinary Madness (Provogue)
  37. Too Slim & the Taildraggers – The Remedy (Vizztone)
  38. Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw (Thirty Tigers)
  39. Savoy Brown – Ain’t Done Yet (Quarto Valley)
  40. John Primer & Bob Corritore – The Gypsy Woman Told Me (Vizztone)
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Chris Heim
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.
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