The Roots Music Report's
Top Classic Blues Song Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Little Taste | D.K. Harrell |
| 2 | Grown Now | D.K. Harrell |
| 3 | Junkyard Blues | John Brennan |
| 4 | Ain't Gonna Cry for You No More | John Brennan |
| 5 | Praise These Blues | D.K. Harrell |
| 6 | Liquor Stores and Legs | D.K. Harrell |
| 7 | Vibe with Me | D.K. Harrell |
| 8 | Talkin' Heavy | D.K. Harrell |
| 9 | Boom Boom | John Lee Hooker |
| 10 | Gear Jammer | George Thorogood |
| 11 | Bright Lights | Gary Clark Jr. |
| 12 | Bring It on Back to Me | John Brennan |
| 13 | It Hurts Me Too | John Brennan |
| 14 | Walking by Myself | Gary Moore |
| 15 | Shake Your Money Maker | John Brennan |
| 16 | Wild Women (Never Get the Blues) | Cat Wells Blues Band |
| 17 | Ramblin' on My Mind | John Brennan |
| 18 | You'll Get Yours Someday | John Brennan |
| 19 | PTLD | D.K. Harrell |
| 20 | Life's Lesson | D.K. Harrell |
| 21 | Burnin' Tears | Yates McKendree |
| 22 | Good As Gone | Yates McKendree |
| 23 | Nothin' to Lose | John Brennan |
| 24 | Cryin' for My Baby | Mitch Woods |
| 25 | Same Old Blues | Freddie King |
| 26 | Lucky in Love | Tommy Castro |
| 27 | The Sun is Shining | Delbert McClinton |
| 28 | One Way Ride | John Brennan |
| 29 | Stagger Lee | Delbert McClinton |
| 30 | Into the Room | D.K. Harrell |
| 31 | What Real Men Do | D.K. Harrell |
| 32 | One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer | Delbert McClinton |
| 33 | Lonesome Road | John Brennan |
| 34 | Need to Know You Better | Yates McKendree |
| 35 | Long Tall Sally | Delbert McClinton |
| 36 | Still a Fool | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 37 | Look over Yonder Wall | John Primer |
| 38 | Serves Me Right to Suffer | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 39 | Color and Kind | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 40 | Buddy Buddy Friend | John Primer |
| 41 | Stagger Lee | Taj Mahal |
| 42 | Luv Sumbody | John Primer |
| 43 | Baby, Please Don't Go | John Brennan |
| 44 | Where'd You Stay Last Night? | John Brennan |
| 45 | You Shook Me | John Brennan |
| 46 | Cincinnati's the Place to Be | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 47 | Baby, Please Come Home | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 48 | Mama Talk to Your Daughter | John Primer |
| 49 | Ain't That Lovin' You | Delbert McClinton |
| 50 | Ten Long Years | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 51 | Marry You | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 52 | Two Step Too | Delbert McClinton |
| 53 | Jambalaya | Delbert McClinton |
| 54 | I'm the Man Down There | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 55 | Key to the Highway | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 56 | Settin' the Woods on Fire | Delbert McClinton |
| 57 | Walkin' Thru the Park | Muddy Waters |
| 58 | Pass You by | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 59 | Three O'Clock Blues | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 60 | As Long As I Have You | Barkin' Bill Smith |
| 61 | That's What I Am | Michael Burks |
| 62 | Call Me the Breeze | John Brennan |
| 63 | I Love to Love You | Barkin' Bill Smith |
| 64 | Run It in the Ground | Yates McKendree |
| 65 | Down the Line | Barkin' Bill Smith |
| 66 | Blue Guitar | Barkin' Bill Smith |
| 67 | Sleeping While the River Runs | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 68 | Get Your Kicks | Barkin' Bill Smith |
| 69 | Someday After Awhile | Barkin' Bill Smith |
| 70 | Going Down for the Last Time | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 71 | Grim Reaper | Sugar Brown |
| 72 | Jukebox Drive | Mitch Woods |
| 73 | Love in Vain | John Brennan |
| 74 | Riding with the King | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 75 | Dimples | John Lee Hooker |
| 76 | Good Man | D.K. Harrell |
| 77 | You'd Be Amazed | D.K. Harrell |
| 78 | No Thanks to You | D.K. Harrell |
| 79 | Gonna Be Some Changes | Matt "Guitar" Murphy |
| 80 | Spoonful | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 81 | I Don't Care | Yates McKendree |
| 82 | Fireman Ring the Bell | R.L. Burnside |
| 83 | Hard Hearted Hannah | Delbert McClinton |
| 84 | Sweet Talkin' Man | Delbert McClinton |
| 85 | Help the Poor | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 86 | See See Rider | Yates McKendree |
| 87 | Black Mattie | The Too Bad Jims |
| 88 | Trouble of My Own | John Primer |
| 89 | When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 90 | Come Rain or Come Shine | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 91 | Days of Old | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 92 | Worried Life Blues | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 93 | Hold on I'm Coming | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 94 | Connecticut Blues | Delbert McClinton |
| 95 | I Ain't Got You | Delbert McClinton |
| 96 | I Want a Little Girl | Delbert McClinton |
| 97 | I'm Ready | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 98 | Move It on over | Delbert McClinton |
| 99 | Call Me a Cab | Delbert McClinton |
| 100 | When I Met the Blues | John Primer |
| 101 | Smokescreen | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 102 | The Right Man | D.K. Harrell |
| 103 | Miss Maybelle | The Too Bad Jims |
| 104 | Trick Bag | Yates McKendree |
| 105 | Something You Got | Yates McKendree |
| 106 | Get These Blues out of Me | D.K. Harrell |
| 107 | Over the Hill | The Too Bad Jims |
| 108 | Boogie Woogie Bar-B-Que | Mitch Woods |
| 109 | While I'm Young | D.K. Harrell |
| 110 | Long Haired Doney | The Too Bad Jims |
| 111 | You're a Queen | D.K. Harrell |
| 112 | Going Down South | The Too Bad Jims |
| 113 | Honey Ain't So Sweet | D.K. Harrell |
| 114 | Skinny Woman | The Too Bad Jims |
| 115 | Bed Down | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 116 | Chalk Line | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 117 | Little Anna Mae | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 118 | Peaches | The Too Bad Jims |
| 119 | Let Me Love You Baby | John Primer |
| 120 | The Time Has Come (feat. Richard Innes, Larry Taylor, Barrelhouse Chuck & Billy Flynn) | Kim Wilson |
| 121 | Wish You Wouldn't | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 122 | Ode to Billy Joe | Yates McKendree |
| 123 | Engine Light | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 124 | Ain't Doing Too Bad | John Primer |
| 125 | Every Night, Every Day | John Primer |
| 126 | One for the Road | D.K. Harrell |
| 127 | I Wanna Be | B.B. King & Eric Clapton |
| 128 | Money Honey | Delbert McClinton |
| 129 | Common Ground | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 130 | Back to Baton Rouge | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 131 | They Call Me Lil' Jimmy | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 132 | A String to Your Heart | Lil' Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin |
| 133 | It Hurts Me Too | John Primer |
| 134 | Hello Trouble | D.K. Harrell |
| 135 | If the Good Lord's Willing | D. Scott Riggs |
| 136 | Chitlin' Pickin' | Brothers Brown |
| 137 | Hoochie Coochie Man | The Reverend Shawn Amos |
| 138 | If the Blues Was Whiskey | Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson |
| 139 | Sixteen Shots | Sugar Brown |
| 140 | Not Here for a Long Time, Pt. 2 | D.K. Harrell |
| 141 | Don't Need but One | Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen |
| 142 | Not Here for a Long Time, Pt. 1 | D.K. Harrell |
| 143 | I Can't Stop | Yates McKendree |
| 144 | Just a Game | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 145 | The Last Time | John Németh |
| 146 | Leaves Tremble on the Tree | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 147 | Please Don't Ask Me | Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen |
| 148 | Don't You Want to Roll with Me | Duke Robillard |
| 149 | DIY Mama | Big Harp George |
| 150 | Flower Shop | Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen |
| 151 | Tide | Yates McKendree |
| 152 | Mr. Boogie's Back in Town | Mitch Woods |
| 153 | Midnight Hour | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 154 | Be My Lovey Dovey | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 155 | Rock Bottom | John Németh |
| 156 | Walk with Me | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 157 | The Hucklebuck (feat. Kim Wilson) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 158 | See Me Coming (feat. Wild Child Butler) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 159 | Part Time Love (feat. Kim Wilson) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 160 | Going to Norway (feat. Wild Child Butler) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 161 | The Hully Gully Twist (feat. Kim Wilson) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 162 | Aching All over (feat. Wild Child Butler) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 163 | Baby What You Want Me to Do (feat. Kim Wilson) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 164 | Alcohol (feat. Kim Wilson) | Big Jack Johnson |
| 165 | Give Me Time | Yates McKendree |
| 166 | Bustin' out | Big Harp George |
| 167 | There Will Come a Time | D. Scott Riggs |
| 168 | Five Long Years | Freddie King |
| 169 | I Drink Alone | George Thorogood |
| 170 | Shake Your Boogie | Big Frank & Mike Smith |
| 171 | When a Guitar Plays the Blues | Roy Buchanan |
| 172 | Sooner or Later | John Németh |
| 173 | Baby, What's Wrong | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 174 | Feeling Good | John Németh |
| 175 | These Hard Times Will Come to Pass | D. Scott Riggs |
| 176 | Mean Town Blues (feat. Joe Bonamassa) | Edgar Winter |
| 177 | On a Monday | Ry Cooder |
| 178 | My Baby Gives It Away | Pete Townshend |
| 179 | It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day) | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 180 | Sell, Steal or Die | Sugar Brown |
| 181 | Out on the Road | The Too Bad Jims |
| 182 | Alice Mae | The Too Bad Jims |
| 183 | What the Missus Misses | Big Harp George |
| 184 | Thin Line | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 185 | Glory Train | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 186 | Keep You from Harm | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 187 | You Stay the Same | Sugar Brown |
| 188 | The Things I Used to Do | John Primer |
| 189 | You Don't Love Me | Angela Strehli |
| 190 | Country Boy | Roy Buchanan |
| 191 | Habit of the Heart | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 192 | Blue Coat Man | Duke Robillard |
| 193 | Come to Me | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 194 | Look What You Done | Duke Robillard |
| 195 | Dress the Monkey | Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen |
| 196 | Where's the Fire | Mother Blues With Gerald McClendon |
| 197 | I Wanna Go Home (feat. Sean Mack McDonald) | Yates McKendree |
| 198 | Leave It at the Door | D.K. Harrell |
| 199 | Here Come the Blues | The Love Dogs |
| 200 | The Older We Get | Big Harp George |
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