July 1, 2019 | Leave a comment
This month we turn our attention to Europe with Boogie Woogie pianist Daniel Smith, now living in Spain but continuing his links with the UK in a variety of ways and we catch up with Catfish who have recently been busy touring most parts of Europe and are due back there shortly.We report on a […]
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May 30, 2019 | Leave a comment
This month we chat with Daniel Gallagher, Rory’s nephew to get the inside track on this important and posthumous compilation release from the family vaults and archives. Jim Kahr is a little known name over here, so prior to his gigs we find out about his background. Kenny Wayne Shepherd is over here, so we get […]
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May 1, 2019 | Leave a comment
In this month’s magazine we talk to Jonny Lang and Ana Popovic, who are touring the UK and take a look at Erja Lyytinen’s diary of her recent trip promoting her new album which is released this month. Catfish also have a new album and we talk to them about its creation. It’s good to […]
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March 31, 2019 | Leave a comment
In this month’s magazine we talk to John Mayall, who at the age of 85 will be ending his current European tour in London during the month and will be promoting his latest album. Shemekia Copeland is paying us a flying visit and Mike Ross finds he’s recorded three albums last year! and has plans […]
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February 28, 2019 | Leave a comment
This month we talk to Beki Brindle who is here touring from the USA, Andres Roots from Estonia with his new album and our own Elles Bailey touring everywhere in support of her latest release. We have a report from Memphis by previous editor Michael Ford on Kyla Brox’s experience of the International Blues Challenge. […]
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January 29, 2019 | Leave a comment
In this month’s magazine we talk to tourers from France, Englishman Paul Cowley, from Canada Ariel Posen and back from the USA, our own Joanne Shaw Taylor, they have new albums to promote and will be touring extensively around the UK in the coming month. We also catch up with Wille & The Bandits, who […]
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December 24, 2018 | Leave a comment
A Happy New year to you and I hope you’re having/had a good time over the festive season (depending on when you read this). In this month’s magazine we give our musician readers some tips on copyrighting their music/lyrics. We talk to Kyla Brox who has a new album and two Challenges to attend to […]
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November 30, 2018 | Leave a comment
This month we talk to The Betterdays about their album, Jon Cleary who’s in London this month, The Backbone Blues Band on playing in the US and the Starlite Campbell Band tour. I mentioned Alan Bates’ gigs in the garden in this column back in May, this month we catch up with him and find […]
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October 30, 2018 | Leave a comment
This month we talk to Ben Poole about his new album and his forthcoming UK tour, whilst Matt Woosey returns from Germany to tour. We catch up with the Rev. Shawn Amos who is only doing a couple of appearances but has an interesting tale to tell. The North East’s Emma Wilson introduces herself and […]
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October 1, 2018 | Leave a comment
In this month’s issue we talk to overseas artists Corky Laing and Robert Cray who are touring the UK, also Doyle Bramhall and Sari Schorr who are releasing new albums. Bad Touch are touring in support of their new album too. Glas and Niall Kelly introduce themselves from Wales and Northern Ireland respectively. As always […]
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