Live Review: MAVIS STAPLES, UNION CHAPEL FORUM-LONDON
The words, great, and legend are used a lot, especially in the world of blues music. They could both have permanent residence attached to Mavis Staples. At 82 years old, Mavis Staples Has achieved so much in her life. As part of The Staples Singers alongside her Father and sisters, she became part of blues […]
Interview: SITTING IN WITH…Todd Sharpville
Got a chance to catch up with longtime British Blues and Americana singer songwriter and guitarist Todd Sharpville. He has a new release “Medication Time” out on Dixiefrog Records. This harkens to a time in his life sixteen years ago where due to circumstances he ended up as in patient in a Psychiatric Hospital. Here […]
Live Review: Walter Trout – Islington Assembly Hall, London
‘It’s awesome to be here, I’ve spent the last two years sitting on my ass dreaming about tonight’ stated Trout as he finished an incendiary performance of Bo Diddley’s I Can Tell and, like the title of his forthcoming album, we were in for quite a ‘Ride’ on the wild side of the blues. Words: […]
