GHALIA Mississippi Blend
Album Review for Ghalia – Mississippi Blend – Released on Ruf Records. Brussels born Ghalia Volt has brought out a second release following on from the success of the mostly New Orleans tinged “Let The Demons Out”. For Mississippi Blend, she delves into the Deep South. Here she got in touch with some star performers […]
THE ACHIEVERS Tour Announcement for 2020
The Achievers are pleased to announce their 2020 UK tour, taking place in March/April. The UK Blues Challenge winners will be performing songs from their critically acclaimed album ‘The Lost Arc‘ as well as favourites from their debut album ‘Live at The SVA‘. Set to cover twelve dates across the country, The Achievers will bring […]
JACK BROADBENT Moonshine Blue
Album Review for Jack Broadbent – Moonshine Blue – Released on Creature Records / Crows Feet Records. Jack Broadbent returns with his fourth studio album, Moonshine Blue, which features nine fabulous examples of acoustic, slide guitar blues. With evocative blues and folk-infused vocals, Jack weaves a distinct sound throughout the album that bends genres and […]
ISSUE 111 OUT NOW!
Highlights in Issue 111 are… Born to be wild, from rock star to wildlife advocate we hear from John Kay all about his journey with Wolf World and what he’s up to now following his 50 year career. US bassist, bluesman and songwriter Buscuit Millar catches up with us and we hear about his time […]
HOLY MOLY & THE CRACKERS, RUTH PATTERSON I’d Give It All – Redux
Released independently by Blank Studios, the word redux at the end of the song title indicates this is a revival of a ballad from the gipsy-folk and rock band’s best selling Take A Bite album. However, it is much more than that because I’d Give It All marks the debut solo single release of Holy […]
EUROPEAN BLUES AWARDS WINNERS 2019
Here are the 2019 winners. Award certificates will be distributed as normal during 2020. Best Band – Larkin Poe Best Guitarist – Joe Bonamassa Best Vocalist (Female) – Kyla Brox Best Vocalist (Male) – Alan Nimmo Best Solo/Acoustic – Dom Martin Best Musician (Performance) – Eric Gales Best Album – Kill or be Kind by Samantha […]
ROOTS AND THE FRUITS
Blues History Blog by Stephen Harrison. When we talk about blues music, we automatically lean our minds towards the Mississippi Delta and quite rightly so for that is where the American blues scene first came into existence. The slaves working in the cotton fields and living in and around the sharecropping communities began a ‘Field […]
Gig Review LAURENCE JONES BAND
The Waterfront, Norwich – 22nd November 2019 Laurence Jones kicked off his UK tour in fine form after having been on the road in Europe for several weeks. His band now consisting of Bennett Holland on keys & Hammond and backing singer Abbie Adigan as well as Phil Wilson (drums) and new member Jack Alexander Timmis […]
R.I.P. WEE WILLIE WALKER
The world’s greatest soul singer has sadly passed away at age 77. Standing at only 5ft 2″ he was a blues giant and adored by everyone lucky enough to catch one of his beautiful and heartfelt performances. The news was announced on the late singer’s Facebook page with a post from Blue Dot Records owner […]
CANCER ON THE ROCKS FESTIVAL 2019 – Update Sunday Cancelled
Cancer On The Rocks, a two day festival in aid of Macmillan Nurses, takes place for the first time this year in London. It will be held at Bush Hall, London on 23rd November 2019. Skyfire Records, Rick Palin has previously held it in the north but after moving his offices to London it then made sense […]
