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Crossroads Top 40 For August 2020

KMUW | By Chris Heim
Published September 1, 2020 at 12:08 AM CDT

  1. Jimmy Johnson – Every Day of Your Life (Delmark)
  2. Ruthie Foster – Live at the Paramount (Blue Corn)
  3. Linsey Alexander – Live at Rosa’s (Delmark)
  4. Lisa Mills – The Triangle (BMG)
  5. Savoy Brown – Ain’t Done Yet (Quarto Valley)
  6. Maceo Parker – Soul Food (The Funk Garage)
  7. Avey Grouws Band – The Devil May Care (Avey Grouws Band)
  8. Backtrack Blues Band – Your Baby Has Left (Vizztone)
  9. Alex Dixon – The Real McCoy (Dixon Landing)
  10. Johnny Burgin – No Border Blues (Delmark)
  11. The Nighthawks – Tryin’ to Get to You (Eller Soul)
  12. Bettye LaVette – Blackbirds (Verve)
  13. John Primer & Bob Corritore – The Gypsy Woman Told Me (Vizztone)
  14. Andrew Alli – Hard Workin’ Man (EllerSoul)
  15. Mark May Band – Deep Dark Demon (Gulf Coast)
  16. Whitney Shay – Stand Up! (Ruf)
  17. Lucky Losers – Godless Land (Vizztone)
  18. Joe Louis Walker – Blues Comin’ On (Cleopatra)
  19. CD Woodbury – World’s Gone Crazy (CD Woodbury)
  20. JD Taylor – The Coldwater Sessions (Vizztone)
  21. Shirley King – Blues for a King (Cleopatra)
  22. King Solomon Hicks – Harlem (Provogue)
  23. Dion – Blues with Friends (KTBA)
  24. Jose Ramirez – Here I Come (Jose Ramirez Music)
  25. Crooked Eye Tommy – Hot Coffee and Pain (Blue Heart)
  26. Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam – Ain’t No Man A Good Man (Mescal Canyon)
  27. JW-Jones – Sonic Departures (Solid Blues)
  28. Jim Gustin/Truth Jones – Lessons Learned (Jim Gustin and Truth Jones)
  29. Cary Morin – Dockside Saints (Cary Morin)
  30. Big Mama Thornton – The Singles Collection 1951-1961 (Acrobat)
  31. Little Junior Parker – The Singles Collection 1952-1962 (Acrobat)
  32. The Five Keys – The Five Keys Collection 1951-58 (Acrobat)
  33. Cindy Cashdollar - Waltz for Abilene (Silver Shot)
  34. Samoa Wilson & The Jim Kweskin Band – I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)
  35. Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne – Go, Just Do It! (Stony Plain)
  36. Blind Lemon Pledge – Goin’ Home (Self)
  37. Smoke Wagon Blues Band – The Ballad of Albert Johnson (Smoke Wagon Blues Band)
  38. Crystal Shawanda – Church House Blues (True North)
  39. Too Slim & the Taildraggers – The Remedy (Vizztone)
  40. Roomful of Blues – In a Roomful of Blues (Alligator)
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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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