The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 California Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 9, 2021
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | Take Me Back | Kim Wilson | M.C. | Classic Blues |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | 100 Years of Blues | Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite | Alligator | Classic Blues |
| - | 3 | 3 | Found! One Soul Singer | Sonny Green | Little Village Foundation | Soul Blues |
| - | 4 | 4 | From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings | Dave Alvin | Yep Roc | Americana Country |
| ▲ | 5 | 9 | Soft Hard & Loud | Dennis Jones | Blue Rock | Blues Rock |
| ▼ | 6 | 5 | Good Luck with Whatever | Dawes | HUB | Alternative Rock |
| - | 7 | 7 | The Land That Time Forgot | Chuck Prophet | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| ▲ | 8 | 15 | The New World Blues | Alastair Greene | Whiskey Bayou | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 9 | 6 | Work Hard and Be Nice | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax | Alternative Rock |
| ▲ | 10 | 14 | Friend of the Sky | Cej | Gnosong | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 11 | 13 | Asterisk the Universe | John Craigie | Thirty Tigers | Alternative Folk |
| ▲ | 12 | 22 | Hot Coffee and Pain | Crooked Eye Tommy | Blue Heart | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 13 | 8 | All Rise | Gregory Porter | Decca | Jazz |
| ▼ | 14 | 12 | Woman in Color | Raye Zaragoza | Art Menius | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 15 | 16 | Another Sky | Kelly's Lot | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 16 | 19 | Brother Sister | Watkins Family Hour | Family Hour | Alternative Folk |
| - | 17 | 17 | Oklahoma | Keb Mo | Concord | Contemporary Blues |
| ▲ | 18 | 23 | Godless Land | The Lucky Losers | VizzTone | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 19 | 10 | Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff | Grant Lee Phillips | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| ▼ | 20 | 11 | My Blues Pathway | Kirk Fletcher | Cleopatra | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 21 | 20 | Stand Up! | Whitney Shay | Ruf | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 22 | 21 | Rollin' on | Jesse Daniel | Die True | Honky Tonk |
| ▲ | 23 | 24 | The Remains of Sunday | Alec Lytle & Them Rounders | Four Acre | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 24 | 27 | Red, White & I Love You Too | The Mastersons | Red House | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 25 | 35 | Somebody Save Me | Sugaray Rayford | Forty Below | Contemporary Blues |
| ▲ | 26 | 28 | The Road Not Taken | Nick Justice | Lulu Belle | Folk Rock |
| ▲ | 27 | 52 | Is It You, is It Me | The Dustbowl Revival | Thirty Tigers | Contemporary Folk |
| ▲ | 28 | 56 | Mondegreens | Rachel Garlin | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 29 | 29 | Acceptance | Billy Childs | Mack Avenue | Mainstream Jazz |
| ▲ | 30 | 31 | Steppin' out | AJ Crawdaddy | 2459569 | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 31 | 30 | Love & Desperation | Rick Shea | Tres Pescadores | Roots Rock |
| - | 32 | 32 | Matamoros | James Kahn | Words and Music | Alternative Folk |
| - | 33 | 33 | No Time for Love Songs | The Mastersons | Compass | Contemporary Folk |
| - | 34 | 34 | Down in the Den | Ted Russell Kamp | PoMo | Americana Country |
| ▼ | 35 | 26 | - Ugh, Those Feels Again | Snoh Aalegra | Epic | R&B |
| - | 36 | 36 | Good As Gone | Casey Hensley | Vizztone | Contemporary Blues |
| ▲ | 37 | 38 | What's the Hurry | Kenny Washington | Lower 9th | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 38 | 42 | Earth to Dora | Eels | E Works | Alternative Rock |
| - | 39 | 39 | Soar | Joselyn & Don | Paintbrush | Americana Country |
| ▲ | 40 | 59 | Lessons Learned | Jim Gustin & Truth Jones | Self-Release | Contemporary Blues |
| ▲ | 41 | 43 | To Rise You Gotta Fall | Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers | Compass | Roots Rock |
| ▲ | 42 | 44 | Dotted Line | Alex Lucero & Live Again | Self-Release | Soul |
| ▲ | 43 | 72 | The Real McCoy | Alex Dixon's Vintage Dixon | Dixon Landing Music | Chicago Blues |
| *NEW* | 44 | - | Dreamcatcher | George Khan | CD Baby | Jazz |
| ▲ | 45 | 50 | Wildflowers: All the Rest | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Warner | Roots Rock |
| ▲ | 46 | 51 | Sinematic | Robbie Robertson | UMG | Roots Rock |
| ▲ | 47 | 53 | Live | Moses Guest | Sclanard | Jam Band |
| ▲ | 48 | 54 | Hooptie | Derek Bodkin | Self-Release | Alternative Folk |
| - | 49 | 49 | Old Flowers | Courtney Marie Andrews | Fat Possum | Americana Country |
| ▼ | 50 | 48 | Nobody Told Me | John Mayall | Forty Below | Contemporary Blues |
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