December 1, 2019 | Leave a comment
In this month’s magazine we hear from Seth Rosenbloom who is coming to play here for the first time from the USA. Albany Down are back on the road as a three piece and we catch up with their frontman Phil Turley. The Blind Lemon Gators are a new flavour from established bluesers resident north […]
Continue ReadingOctober 30, 2019 | Leave a comment
In this month’s magazine we hear from Graeme of Deep Blue Sea who has some further thoughts on Trev Turley’s piece about pigeonholing in September’s issue, whilst Trev reflects on the New Crawdaddy Club which is closing at the end of this year. Wille Edwards, without his Bandits, is doing a short tour to raise […]
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September 30, 2019 | Leave a comment
In this month’s magazine we hear from the Surrey Blues Club who are celebrating their 10th anniversary and Suzanne Noble who tells us all about herself and her copulatin’ blues. There is a great deal of excitement surrounding Tommy Harkenrider’s visit to the UK and you can play along with Tommy at the Beer Rhythm […]
Continue ReadingAugust 27, 2019 | 4 Comments
In this month’s magazine Trev Turley ponders on Pigeonholing music, whilst we report on the tie-up of Sayer & Joyce with the American label Gulf Coast Records. The Ruf Records’ Blues Caravan is on tour and we take a look behind the scenes and find out what the girls will be playing. Samantha Fish has […]
Continue ReadingJuly 31, 2019 | 3 Comments
In this month’s magazine we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Tuesday Night Music Club. Dom Pipkin is back here and we hear about his stay in New Orleans and the people and venues he got to visit. Visiting our shores, only briefly, is Robert Randolph and we chat to him about his music and […]
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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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