Cheap Trick and David Bowie led the way in ’77 with two albums each, and the blues was represented by Johnny Winter, Muddy Waters, and Roy Buchanan.
Aja: Steely Dan (“Peg”, “Deacon Blues”, “Josie”)
American Stars n’ Bars: Neil Young (“Hey Babe”, “Will to Love”, “Like a Hurricane”)
Bad Reputation: Thin Lizzy (“Opium Trail”, “Bad Reputation”, “Southbound”)
Book of Dreams: The Steve Miller Band (“Jet Airliner”, “Winter Time”, “Jungle Love”)
The Clash: The Clash (“White Riot”, “Career Opportunities”, “Janie Jones”)
Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick (“Hot Love”, “ELO Kiddies”, “Oh, Candy”)
CSN: Crosby, Still & Nash (“Shadow Captain”, “Dark Star”, “Just a Song Before I Go”)
Derringer Live: Derringer (“Beyond the Universe”, “Let Me In”, “Still Alive and Well”)
Draw the Line: Aerosmith (“Draw the Line”, “I Wanna Know Why”, “Sight for Sore Eyes”)
George Thorogood and the Destroyers: George Thorogood and the Destroyers (“Madison Blues”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “You Got to Lose”)
Hard Again: Muddy Waters (“I Can’t Be Satisfied”, “Mannish Boy”, “Crosseyed Cat”)
“Heroes”: David Bowie (“Joe the Lion”, “Heroes”, “The Secret Life of Arabia”)
Hurry Sundown: Outlaws (“Gunsmoke”, “Heavenly Blues”, “Hurry Sundown”)
In Color: Cheap Trick (“Clock Strikes Ten”, “Southern Girls”, “Come On, Come On”)
In City Dreams: Robin Trower (“Somebody Calling”, “Sweet Wine of Love”, “Smile”)
Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live: Jeff Beck (“Freeway Jam”, “Scatterbrain”, “Blue Wind”)
Leave Home: Ramones (“California Sun”, “I Remember You”, “Swallow My Pride”)
Let There Be Rock: AC/DC (“Whole Lotta Rosie”, “Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be”, “Problem Child”)
Lights Out: UFO (“Too Hot to Handle”, “Lights Out”, “Love to Love”)
Loading Zone: Roy Buchanan (“Ramon’s Blues”, “Green Onion”, “Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby”)
Low: David Bowie (“Always Crashing in the Same Car”, “Speed of Life”, “Be My Wife”)
Moonflower: Santana (“I’ll Be Waiting”, “She’s Not There”, “Bahia”)
Nothin’ But the Blues: Johnny Winter (“TV Mama”, “Mad Blues”, “Tired of Tryin'”)
Oops! Wrong Planet: Todd Rundgren (“Love in Action”, “Love is the Answer”, “Trapped”)
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (“Solsbury Hill”, “Slowburn”, “Here Comes the Flood”)
Rumours: Fleetwood Mac (“Go Your Own Way”, “Dreams”, “The Chain”)
Slowhand: Eric Clapton (“Wonderful Tonight”, “Lay Down Sally”, “Cocaine”)
Spectres: Blue Oyster Cult (“Golden Age of Leather”, “Searching for Celine”, “Fireworks”)
Stick to Me: Graham Parker and the Rumour (“I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down”, “Heat in Harlem”, “Stick to Me”)
Street Survivors: Lynyrd Skynyrd (“That Smell”, “I Know a Little”, “You Got that Right”)