The Roots Music Report's
Top Blues Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood Brothers | Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia | Gulf Coast |
| 2 | Real Gone | Ally Venable Band | Ruf |
| 3 | Among the Insanity | Skylar Rogers | Blue Heart |
| 4 | Best of Me | Joanna Connor | Gulf Coast |
| 5 | What Key is Trouble In? | Nick Schnebelen Band | VizzTone |
| 6 | Backbone | Deb Callahan | Blue Pearl |
| 7 | Nothing but Time | Monster Mike Welch | Gulf Coast |
| 8 | Electric Church for the Spiritually Misguided | Dean Zucchero | Pugnacious |
| 9 | Shout Sister Shout | Ghalia Volt | Ruf |
| 10 | Gypsy Soul | Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival | J&R Collective |
| 11 | The Deep & the Dirty | Eric Johanson | Ruf |
| 12 | Live in Austin Vol. 1 | Sue Foley | Self-Release |
| 13 | Fresh Tracks | Big Shoes | Qualified |
| 14 | Far Enough | Jimmie Bratcher | Ain't Skeert Tunes |
| 15 | Lovers Before Sunrise | Brad "Guitar" Wilson | Cali Bee |
| 16 | Pinky's Blues | Sue Foley | Stony Plain |
| 17 | Nice Ain't Got Me Nothin' | Billy The Kid & The Regulators | indienink |
| 18 | Peace...Like a River | Gov't Mule | Concord |
| 19 | His-Story | Greg Sover | Grounded Soul |
| 20 | Slow Burn | Sunny Bleau and The Moons | CoccoMusic |
| 21 | Blue Diamonds | The Name Droppers | Horizon |
| 22 | Pretty Baby | Blues Fighters | Self-Release |
| 23 | That Killer B Sting | Little Bobby | Untouchable |
| 24 | Zero - 2 - Sixty | Scott Ellison | Liberation Hall |
| 25 | Light & Darkness | Stef Paglia | Self-Release |
| 26 | Blues in the Barn, Vol. 1 | Mikey Junior | 8th-Train |
| 27 | The Blues, Man, the Blues | Mick Clarke | Rockfold |
| 28 | Wild & Precious Life | Duane Betts | Royal Potato Family |
| 29 | Playing in a Rock'n Roll Band | Annika Andersson & the Boiling Blues Band | Self-Release |
| 30 | For You | Tim Woods | Self-Release |
| 31 | Death Wish Blues (With Jesse Dayton) | Samantha Fish | Rounder |
| 32 | Raise Your Hands | Scott Weis Band | Self-Release |
| 33 | Blues from the Bayou (feat. Jonathon Boogie Long) | The Groove Krewe | Sound Business Services LLC |
| 34 | Blues All Around | Savoy Brown | Quarto Valley |
| 35 | Fated | Jeau James | Lord Vinyl |
| 36 | The Blues Album | Joanne Shaw Taylor | Keeping The Blues Alive |
| 37 | Ain't Giving Up | Chris Duarte | Mascot |
| 38 | Painting Stars | LH Express | Self-Release |
| 39 | The Blues, Man, Rides Again!! | Mick Clarke | Rockfold |
| 40 | Babel | Jhett Black | RumbleStump Entertainment |
| 41 | A Sound in the Dark | Sandra Bouza | Self-Release |
| 42 | Do You Have the Blues or Do the Blues Have You | The Rev Douglas | Self-Release |
| 43 | Heavy Load Blues | Gov't Mule | Concord |
| 44 | Open Road | Colin James | Stony Plain |
| 45 | Dear Illusion | Steve Hill | No Label |
| 46 | Colors of Jealousy | Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip | Hokahey! |
| 47 | We Hot | The Wicked Lo-Down | Self-Release |
| 48 | The Sun is Shining Down | John Mayall | Forty Below |
| 49 | Need a Friend | The Christopher Dean Band | Lost World |
| 50 | Supply Chain Blues | Brooks Young | Self-Release |
| 51 | Alive in the New World (Live) | Alastair Greene | Whiskey Bayou |
| 52 | Midnight Blues | Crystal Shawanda | True North |
| 53 | 4801 South Indiana Avenue | Joanna Connor | Keeping The Blues Alive |
| 54 | First Last Time | Ghost Hounds | Gibson |
| 55 | Enchantment | Until The Sun | Self-Release |
| 56 | What's Buggin' You? | Omar & The Howlers | Big Guitar |
| 57 | Changing Times | Silent Partners | Little Village |
| 58 | Faster | Samantha Fish | Rounder |
| 59 | 11 X 11 | 11 Guys Quartet | VizzTone |
| 60 | Equinox | Geminii Dragon | Nepotism |
| 61 | Rough Around the Edges | Lone Star Mojo | Self-Release |
| 62 | Philadelphia Mississippi | G. Love & Special Sauce | Thirty Tigers |
| 63 | Believe | Albert Cummings | Mascot |
| 64 | Blues in the Barn, Vol. 2 | Mikey Junior | 8th-Train |
| 65 | Modern Nostalgia | Hughes Taylor | The Bent Note |
| 66 | Dirt on My Diamonds, Vol. 1 | Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band | Mascot |
| 67 | Breakfast Served Cold (feat. the Moons) | Sunny Bleau and The Moons | CoccoMusic |
| 68 | Heart of Fire | Ally Venable Band | Ruf |
| 69 | Dumpster Fire | Mean Old Fireman | First Due |
| 70 | Child of the State | Ayron Jones | Big Machine |
| 71 | Change | Johnny Riley | Self-Reledase |
| 72 | I Got Love | Albert Castiglia | Gulf Coast |
| 73 | Blood Brothers: Live in Canada | Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia | Gulf Coast |
| 74 | Trying to Keep My Head Above Water | Levee Town | Hudtone |
| 75 | Sonic Mojo | Foghat | Self-Release |
| 76 | It's a Mad Mad Bad Dad World | Bad Daddy | Piehole |
| 77 | Tribute to Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac Years | Rick Berthod | Self-Release |
| 78 | Joyful Sky | Robin Trower | Mascot |
| 79 | Same Pain | Garret T. Willie | Self-Release |
| 80 | Let It Bleed Revisited - an Ovation from Nashville | The Rock House All Stars | Qualified |
| 81 | Gin House | Wayne Nicholson | Grindstone |
| 82 | Speed of Heat | Skunk Baxter | BMG |
| 83 | Boston Bananafish | Bananafish | Treated & Released |
| 84 | Hot Mess | Coyote Kings | Twin Lion |
| 85 | Preach to My Soul | Spencer Mackenzie | Gypsy Soul |
| 86 | Hangin' at the DeVille Lounge | Rusty Wright Band | Sadson Music |
| 87 | Living in a Burning House | Selwyn Birchwood | Alligator |
| 88 | There's Something About the Night | Scott Ellison | Liberation Hall |
| 89 | On My Way | Katie Henry | Ruf |
| 90 | Southern Light | Saverio Maccne | Velvet Utopia |
| 91 | Strat's Got Your Tongue | Greg Koch | Self-Release |
| 92 | Queen of the Hill | Niecie | Ride The Tiger |
| 93 | Delta Kream | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 94 | Sound and Fury | Phil Coyne And The Wayward Aces | Self-Release |
| 95 | BLOW | Colin Linden | Highway 20 |
| 96 | Out of My Head | Hamish Anderson | Self-Release |
| 97 | Be Love | The Alexis P. Suter Band | Hipbone |
| 98 | Live at the Woodshed | Chase Walker Band | Revved Up |
| 99 | Queen of Rock 'n' Roll | Tina Turner | Parlophone |
| 100 | Almost Made It | The Matt Woods Band | Self-Release |
| 101 | Resurrection | Mike Zito | Gulf Coast |
| 102 | Quarterlife Blues | Nadine de Macedo | Self-Release |
| 103 | Boogalator | Tim Gibbons and The Swampbusters | Self-Release |
| 104 | Songs from the Road | Bernard Allison | Ruf |
| 105 | Bluesdaddy | Will Johns | Galetone |
| 106 | Slipstream | Bonnie Raitt | Redwing |
| 107 | Burn It All Down | Lauren Anderson | Self-Release |
| 108 | Live at G. Bluey's Juke Joint N.Y.C | Popa Chubby | Gulf Coast |
| 109 | Telegram | Mick Clarke | Rockfold |
| 110 | Unusual Suspects | The Righteous Villains | VillaineousBluesBflo |
| 111 | The Hard Line | Chris O'Leary | Alligator |
| 112 | Over the Pain | Orphan Jon and the Abandoned | Vintage LaNell |
| 113 | A Night at the Rhythm Room (Live) | Until The Sun | Self-Release |
| 114 | Born Again: the Complete Recordings 1967-1972 | Freedom | Cherry Red |
| 115 | The Journey, Pt. 2 | The Kinks | BMG |
| 116 | On the Run: 1984-2013 | Mick Ralphs | Cherry Red |
| 117 | Revelation | Dennis Johnson | Booda Lee |
| 118 | Los Angeles Forum - April 26, 1969 (Live) | Jimi Hendrix Experience | Sony |
| 119 | Blues Hotel | Catch 23 | Self-Release |
| 120 | Brace Yourself Live | Too Slim & the Taildraggers | VizzTone |
| 121 | No More Worlds to Conquer | Robin Trower | Provogue |
| 122 | Jumpin' the Broom | Markey Blue Ric Latina Project | soulOsound |
| 123 | Money Ain't Time | The Halley DeVestern Band | Self-Release |
| 124 | Nasty Crime | Alex Lopez | MarEmil |
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