Best Blues & Blues Rock Albums 2020 - The Best Live & Studio Albums

What are the best blues and blues rock albums released in 2020?

Below you will find a poll where I ask you to vote for up to TEN of your favourite albums from 2020. Please help others to find the best blues albums and let them guide you to albums that you haven’t yet heard.

My Favourites

If I’m asking you to recommend albums, it’s only fair that I tell which blues albums have made the biggest impression on me from 2020.

I have a weakness for female blues singers so you’ll see more albums by women in my list and probably more in the poll than you’d normally expect.

I rate out of 10 with 10 = brilliant (an all-time top 100 album), 9 = excellent (top 250 to 300 album), 8 = very good, 7 = good, 6 = pretty good. I’m also reluctant to give 9s and 10s out until they have stood the test of time. I like albums when I first buy or hear them but too often they don’t leave a lasting impression. The last 9s I have for blues albums are the 2019 albums by Elles Bailey and Whalia and the last 10 is Let Me Get By from the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Here are my thoughts so far for blues albums released in 2020

Blackbird & Crow – Ailm 8/10

A folk blues hybrid from this Irish pair. In a world where blues can have a generic sound, this is lovely and different.

Crystal Shawanda – Church House Blues 8/10

A new artist to me but this won’t be the last album I buy of hers now that she’s converted from country to blues. A native American from Canada with a terrific, husky voice.

Joe Louis Walker – Blues Comin’ On 8/10

One of those artists I’ve meant to investigate before but there’s something about this that tipped me over the edge to try it through my streaming service and it was so good, I just had to own it.

Larkin Poe – Self Made Man 8/10

A well publicised band in the music press, but they live up to the hype.

Robert Jon & The Wreck – Last Light On The Highway 8/10

I don’t understand why this fine Southern rock band aren’t much better known. Their music has the big hooks needed to be a crossover hit.

The title track is a two-parter.

Vanessa Collier – Heart On the Line 8/10

Vanessa has only released four albums but it speaks highly that I rate my third favourite of hers as high as 8/10. She is one of the female blues singers I’m turning to most often. I’m probably biased because I love the saxophone but this album has quite a wide range of styles including funk and soul.

Whitney Shay – Stand Up! 8/10

Powerful rhythm and blues by this singer from Texas. I’m very taken with her previous album, A Woman Rules The World.

The Best Blues & Blues Rock Albums In 2020

Here is the poll for studio albums. I’ll probably start another poll for live albums.

Please vote.
I’d love it if you leave a comment with details of explaining why you love certain albums or perhaps giving ratings for albums. Personally I use a rating out of 10.
Leave a comment to tell me about great blues albums I’ve missed. It’s inevitable that I’ll miss something and it’s probably really obvious to you.

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More Details About The Albums Selected

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Albert Cummings – Believe

Reviews at Amazon.com & Amazon.co.uk

Rock & Blues Muse – “Every moment of Believe is to be savored and proves without a doubt that Albert Cummings belongs among the biggest names in blues music today.”

Blues Blast Magazine – “Believe is a winner from the jump.”

Blues Rock Review – “Believe is an enjoyable album”

Allman Betts Band – Bless Your Heart