July 30, 2017 | Leave a comment
As this month there are more artists are over here and on tour we chat to Eric Bibb, but couldn’t make contact with Lucky Peterson in Dallas, so Steve Morphew has written up a few notes to fill you in on what to expect. We mentioned last month in our news section that Clare Free […]
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June 30, 2017 | Leave a comment
We’re very much in west London this month with a piece on the Ealing Festival and a history of the Eel Pie Club in our Club spot. Matt Schofield will be returning to our shores shortly for a few gigs and some of them with Henrik Freischlader – we get the full run down in […]
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May 29, 2017 | Leave a comment
The festival season is now coming into full bloom. It’s nice to see some new names and you can find the UK’s most comprehensive Blues Festival listings starting on Page 39. Our Club this month is the Hope Tavern pub. We thought we’d interview three Chrises for this edition. Chris Antonik is from Canada, has a new […]
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April 27, 2017 | Leave a comment
This month we talk to Matt Andersen and Little Hurricane who are both visiting the UK, we catch up with Ruby Tiger as she and the Revelators release their new album and talk to Gerry Jablonski. He and the band will be appearing at clubs up and down the country as well as at festivals. […]
Continue ReadingMarch 26, 2017 | 3 Comments
The North are getting more than their fair share of attention in this month’s edition as we get an update on the live music scene (with the emphasis on blues) in Sunderland, we hear from Newcastle based band Broken Levee and Salford based Norman Beaker about being inducted into the American Blues Hall of Fame. […]
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February 27, 2017 | Leave a comment
Welcome to our new readers who signed up at the stand at the Skegness Festival back in January, we’ve put our review in the centre pages this month. We think our gig guide is the biggest we’ve ever had, so do check it out (starting page 34) and see who’s on where you’re going to be. […]
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January 31, 2017 | Leave a comment
This month, we have so many interviews we’ve had to drop the Big Picture and use the space. We talk to new album releasers Fran McGillivray and Mike Burke, Troy Redfern, Jack J Hutchinson and Catfish. We find out about two clubs and hear about the new arrangements for Colne in August. Blue Touch introduce themselves and Bad […]
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December 25, 2016 | Leave a comment
We start the year in this issue by chatting to our cover artist Dave Kelly, Ronnie Greer from Northern Ireland, Dom Pipkin, who must feel he lives in New Orleans sometimes and Toronzo Cannon who will be playing at Skegness. Jam sessions and Open Mic Nights are discussed in depth by Trevor Turley and Tanya […]
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December 1, 2016 | Leave a comment
In December’s magazine we talk to Howlin’ Mat, The Voodoo Sheiks and catch Aynsley Lister as he comes back to the UK after a successful European tour. Boris ‘The Blade’ is working frantically to introduce many UK blues artists to the people of Russia and we find out who’s been and what they thought of […]
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October 30, 2016 | Leave a comment
In November’s magazine, we hear about the Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury. We talk to Guy Davis who is over on tour and to Beth Hart, find out about pianist Tom Seals and catch up with Cherry Lee Mewis’s latest escapades in the southern states of America, talking of which, Keith Thompson has a blues dilemma. We’ve […]
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