| Artist | Title | Album (* = New Release) | Label |
|---|
| Ramsay Lewis Trio | The In Crowd | | |
| April March | Le Chanson De Prevert | | |
| Fabienne Delsol | I'm Gonna Catch Me A Rat | | |
| Shuggie Otis | Purple | | |
| Eric Mercury | Long Way Down | Electric Black Man | Avco Embassy |
| Everybody Has The Right To Love | | |
| Ry Cooder | The Long Riders | The Long Riders Soundtrack | |
| I'm A Good Old Rebel | | |
| Christian Marclay | 1930 | Island Of Sanity New Music From New York City | |
| Fish And Roses | Checkered Past | sland Of Sanity New Music From New York City | |
| Todd Rundgren | Lost Horizon | A Cappella | |
| Old Crow Medicine Show | Sweet Home | | |
| Kinks | Lola (Instrumental) | Percy | |
| Wayne Brady | Wash Your Hands | | |
| Pete Yorn | Splendid Isolation | | |
| Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros | Home | | |
| Smiley Lewis | I Hear You Knocking | | Imperial |
| The Kampells | New Lock On My Door | | Select |
| The Spencer Davis Group | Today Gluggo, Tomorrow The World | | Vertigo |
| Hardy Perennials | The Lone Ranger | | |
| Walter Carlos | William Tell Overture | | |
| Little Jerry And The Monotones | Mad | | |
| Ry Cooder | Money Honey | | |
| Phil Alvin With Sun Ra & The Arkestra | Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn | Un "Sung Stories" | WB |
| Next Week Sometime | | |
| Joe Brooks And Rosko | The Morning Of Your Life | Morning | Metromedia |
| Girl From The Bay Country | | |
| Special Kind Of Morning | | |
| Prince | Rainbow Children | The Rainbow Children | |
| Manu Dibango | Dangwa | Soul Makossa | Atlantic |
| Lily | | |
| Soul Makossa | | |
| Bruce And Jerry | I Saw Her First | | |
| Patterns | Late Late Show | | |
| U.S. Rockets | Bodacious | | |
| Camper Van Beethoven | Where The Hell Is Bill? | | |
| Chuck Prophet | Get Off The Stage | * | |
| Cracker | I See The Light | | |
| Fela Ransome- Kuti & The Africa 70 | It's No Possible | He Miss Road | |
| Dixie Dregs | The Riff Raff | Night Of The Living Dregs | Capricorn |
| Long Slow Distance | | |
| Prince | Purple Rain | | |
| Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze | | |
| Stu Miller | Wash Your Hands | | |
| The Kinks | Gods Children | Percy | |
| Santana | Soul Sacrifice | | |
| Santana | Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile) | Amigos | |
| Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) | | |
| Reno Bo | Eat At Home | | |
| Richard Ray Farrell | Stir Crazy | | |
| The Kinks | Whip Lady | | Percy |
| Nick Lowe | Let's Stay In And Make Love | | |
| Johnny "Guitar" Watson | Don't Touch Me | | |
| Shortstraw | Couch Potato | | |
| Digital Underground | Rhymin' On The Funk | Sex Packets | |
| Weird "Al" Yankovich | Couch Potato | | |
| The Smokers | Going Stir Crazy | | |
| The Reverend Horton Heat | Couch Surfin' | | |
| Les Nubians | Desolee | | |
| Phish | Down With Disease | | |
| The Flaming Lips | Suddenly Everything Has Changed | | |
| Young -Holt Trio | Wack Wack | | |
| John Mayall | Room To Move | | |
| Ramsey Lewis | What's The Name Of This Funk? (Spiderman) | | |
| Rare Earth | I Just Want To Celbrate | | |
| Ten Years After | I'm Going Home | | |
Six hour Covid-19 marathon. We observed a few album anniversaries. Santana's Amigos (1976), The Kinks' Percy (1971) and Digital Underground's debut, Sex Packets (1990). We also marked Purple Day (raising awareness of epilepsy) with a few "purple" tunes.
