The Roots Music Report's
Top Blues Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2021
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Living in a Burning House | Selwyn Birchwood | Alligator |
| 2 | Open Road | Colin James | Stony Plain |
| 3 | BLOW | Colin Linden | Highway 20 |
| 4 | Resurrection | Mike Zito | Gulf Coast |
| 5 | Faster | Samantha Fish | Rounder |
| 6 | Alafia Moon | Damon Fowler | Landslide |
| 7 | Delta Kream | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 8 | Money Ain't Time | The Halley DeVestern Band | Self-Release |
| 9 | One Woman Band | Ghalia Volt | Ruf |
| 10 | Hope Dies Last | Steve Marriner | Stony Plain |
| 11 | Stomping Ground | Dion | Keeping The Blues Alive |
| 12 | Rising Up | Alex Lopez | Maremil |
| 13 | Papa Didn't Raise Me Right | The Porkroll Project | Roadhouse Redemption |
| 14 | Live on Stage | The Bluesbones | Naked |
| 15 | Good Life | Hurricane Ruth | American Showplace |
| 16 | You Can't Fall off the Floor | The Wildcat O'Halloran Band | Self-Release |
| 17 | Bless Your Heart | The Allman Betts Band | BMG |
| 18 | That's What I'm Talkin About - Tribute to Hubert Sumlin | Sean Chambers | Quarto Valley |
| 19 | Flathead | Seth Lee Jones | Horton |
| 20 | Hardware | Billy F Gibbons | Concord |
| 21 | The Corner | Early Times & The High Rollers | VizzTone |
| 22 | What is Real | Trevor B. Power Band | Farm 189 |
| 23 | In My Hands | Steve Keenan | Self-Release |
| 24 | Below Sea Level | Eric Johanson | Nola Blue |
| 25 | Slippin' and Slidin' | The Immediate Family | Quarto Valley |
| 26 | Best of | Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado | Ruf |
| 27 | Bad News Rising | Chris 'Bad News' Barnes | VizzTone |
| 28 | Tribute | Jack de Keyzer | Blue Star |
| 29 | Modern Nostalgia | Hughes Taylor | The Bent Note |
| 30 | Love on the Rocks | Lauren Anderson | Self-Release |
| 31 | Bluesdaddy | Will Johns | Galetone |
| 32 | Volume One | The Atomic 44's | Bird Dog |
| 33 | The Call of the Blues | Whitey Somers | Motorhome |
| 34 | Heavy Load Blues | Gov't Mule | Concord |
| 35 | The Blues Album | Joanne Shaw Taylor | Keeping The Blues Alive |
| 36 | Plug in and Play | Tommy Z | South Blossom |
| 37 | Whiskey, Women & Trouble | Kurt Allen | Titanium Blue |
| 38 | Traveler's Blues | Blues Traveler | Round Hill |
| 39 | Deep Dark Demon | Mark May Band | Gulf Coast |
| 40 | The Remedy | Too Slim & the Taildraggers | VizzTone |
| 41 | Rocket Ride | Broke Fuse | Self-Release |
| 42 | Ice Cream in Hell | Tinsley Ellis | Alligator |
| 43 | Soft Hard & Loud | Dennis Jones | Blue Rock |
| 44 | Containment Blues | Anthony Gomes | Up 2 Zero |
| 45 | Ashes | Be Sharp Band | Self-Release |
| 46 | Vortex | Tim Woods | Self-Release |
| 47 | Brotherhood | Terminal Station | Hard Rain |
| 48 | Pure | Robben Ford | earMUSIC |
| 49 | Magnificent Heart | Peter Karp | Rose Cottage |
| 50 | Kill or Be Kind | Samantha Fish | Rounder |
| 51 | Supergroove | Andy Watts | VizzTone |
| 52 | Back to Blue | Clay Melton | Watchtower |
| 53 | Live in Calgary | David Vest | Cordova Bay |
| 54 | The Firewater Sessions, Vol. II | Grandaddy Short Leg | Hillbilly Underground |
| 55 | The Sun is Shining Down | John Mayall | Forty Below |
| 56 | Introducing... | Aaron Frazer | Easy Eye Sound |
| 57 | Heartache and Toil | Jon Strahl Band | Self-Release |
| 58 | Alive | Sister Lucille | Endless Blues |
| 59 | Gild the Black Lily | Queen Esther | EL Recordings |
| 60 | 4801 South Indiana Avenue | Joanna Connor | Keeping The Blues Alive |
| 61 | The Ballad of Albert Johnson | The Smoke Wagon Blues Band | Self-Release |
| 62 | Cosmic Radio | Dudley Taft | American Blues Artist Group |
| 63 | Bywater Call | Bywater Call | Gypsy Soul |
| 64 | Nowhere Left to Go | Layla Zoe | Self-Release |
| 65 | Blow Up Doll | Anni Piper | Sugar Daddy |
| 66 | Tear in My Eye | Kenny James Miller Band | Self-Release |
| 67 | Slings and Arrows | Michelle Malone | SBS |
| 68 | What the Cat Dragged in | Norman Collins & the Tumblers | Self-Release |
| 69 | Southern Son | Jeff Fetterman | Green Tea |
| 70 | Old Girl | Lisa Mann | JayRay |
| 71 | Love Me Some | Boogie Beasts | Donor Productions |
| 72 | Simple Search for Truth | PK Mayo | Self-Release |
| 73 | Believe | Albert Cummings | Mascot |
| 74 | Peanuts | Sauce Boss | Swampside |
| 75 | Rise Above | Billy J | Self-Release |
| 76 | Waitin' | The Liberators | GMR Music |
| 77 | Dumpster Fire | Mean Old Fireman and the Cruel Engineers | First Due |
| 78 | Force of Will | Dave Fields | Self-Release |
| 79 | This Land | Gary Clark Jr. | Warner Brothers |
| 80 | Early Songs & Rarities | The Record Company | Concord |
| 81 | Warm Me Up | Jimmy Haggard | Self-Release |
| 82 | Betting on a Gambling Man | Dwane Dixon | Self-Release |
| 83 | Tin Foil Hat | Popa Chubby | Dixiefrog |
| 84 | Earthling | Eddie Vedder | Republic |
| 85 | The Tango Bar | Greg Copeland | Inside |
| 86 | The Battle at Garden’s Gate | Greta Van Fleet | Republic Records |
| 87 | The Language of Curiosity | Starlite Campbell Band | Supertone |
| 88 | Wanted | Five Points Gang | Lunaria |
| 89 | Moment to Lose | The Old No. 5s | High Bar Rekkads |
| 90 | Old School | Tom Gilberts | Polymerase |
| 91 | Something Good | JD3 & The Jondo Trio | Self-Release |
| 92 | Sweet Thing | Moonshine Society | Mojo |
| 93 | Quarantine Blues | Mike Zito | Gulf Coast |
| 94 | Eclectic Electric | Joe Louis Walker | Cleopatra |
| 95 | Friends of the Blues 2 | Myles Goodwyn | Linus |
| 96 | See That Light | Rick Holmstrom | Luellie |
| 97 | Killin' It Live (Live) | Tommy Castro | Alligator |
| 98 | Blues Groove Sessions #1 | Shakin' Woods | Self-Release |
| 99 | Nothing Holding Me Down | Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival | Self-release |
| 100 | The Blues Proper Sessions, Vol. 2 | Shakin' Woods | Self-Release |
| 101 | Help Wanted | Georgia Randall | Self-Release |
| 102 | Fading Away | Artur Menezes | VizzTone |
| 103 | We Fly Free | When Rivers Meet | One Road |
| 104 | Three Chords & the Truth | Van Morrison | Caroline |
| 105 | Perigon: Full Circle | Dianne Davidson | Perigon Music |
| 106 | Awa Blues | Grant Haua | Self-Release |
| 107 | Stripped Back | Rebecca Downes | Mad Hat |
| 108 | Wherever You Go | Tomas Doncker | True Groove |
| 109 | The Birdcage Sessions | Eddie Martin | Blueblood |
| 110 | Crazy All by Myself | Nick Schnebelen Band | Vizztone |
| 111 | In My Prime | Kai Strauss | Continental |
| 112 | Good to Go | Charlie Bedford | Blue Heart |
| 113 | No Good Deed | Mindi Abair And The Boneshakers | Pretty Good For A Girl |
| 114 | Breakfast Served Cold (feat. the Moons) | Sunny Bleau and The Moons | CoccoMusic |
| 115 | Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac | Mick Fleetwood & Friends | BMG |
| 116 | One Way out | Melissa Etheridge | BMG |
| 117 | Fancy Hercules | Makar | Andrea Deangelis & Mark Purnell |
| 118 | Southern Light | Saverio Maccne | Velvet Utopia |
| 119 | The BLUES Album (2020 Remix) | Whitesnake | Rhino |
| 120 | Sugarbowl | Shadow & the Thrill | Deko Music |
| 121 | Soulshaker | Rick Vito | VizzTone |
| 122 | Harlem | King Solomon Hicks | Mascot |
| 123 | Blues in My Blood | Tiffany Pollack & Eric Johanson | Nola Blue |
| 124 | Bending the Rules | Travellin' Blue Kings | Naked |
| 125 | Black Crow Moan | Eliza Neals | E-H |
| 126 | Woman Named Trouble | Vanja Sky | Ruf |
| 127 | No One Loves Me Better | Shane Dwight | Red Parlor |
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