As in the past, we offered up a Top 25 Countdown of the year’s best Sunday Morning Blues songs.

All of these are from excellent albums and would make nice additions to your own collections!

Note: the song title is first, the album name is second.

So, let’s say farewell to 2012 with these:

#25
I’m not Tired
Testify
The Lee Boys (featuring Warren Haynes)

#24
There it Is
Stronger for It
Janiva Magness

#23
The Man
Living the Dream
Albert Castiglia

#22
Locked Down
Locked Down
Dr. John

#21
Blues Got Me So Bad
Still on the Road to Freedom
Alvin Lee

#20
Saw My Mama Cryin’
Blues for the Modern Daze
Walter Trout

#19
Mighty Love
Mighty Tone
The Mystix (with Jerry Portnoy on harp)

#18
Candy Man Blues
Rooster Rag
Little Feat

#17
Catfishin’
Son of the Seventh Son
Mud Morganfield

#16
Homework
American Girl
Jeff Pitchell with Jay Geils

#15
She Loves Everybody But Me
Back to New York City
Popa Chubby

#14
Mannish Boy
Checkboard Lounge Chicago 1981 (CD/DVD set)
Muddy Waters with the Rolling Stones

#13
Ode to Beer
Done Deal
The Fat City Band

#12
Do You Really Want that Woman?
Soul Live
John Nemeth

#11
Boots and Shoes
Back to the Woods
Chuck Leavell

#10
Sweet Jelly Donut
Royal Southern Brotherhood
Royal Southern Brotherhood

#9
Won’t Be Coming Home
Nothin’ But Love
The Robert Cray Band

#8
Unconditional
Unconditional
Ana Popovic

#7
Railroad Story
The Adventures of Fishy Waters
Guy Davis

#6
Twenty Lies Ago
Littlewolf
Littlewolf

#5
Colleen
Crooked Avenue
A Ton of Blues

#4
Too Drunk to Drive Drunk
Hellfire
Joe Louis Walker

#3
Dislocated Boy
Driving Towards the Daylight
Joe Bonamassa

#2
What You Gonna Do?
Soul Shot
Curtis Salgado

#1!
Learn How to Love
Everybody’s Talkin’ (Live 2-CD set)
Tedeschi-Trucks Band