Crowdfunder Launched Today For UK Representative KYLA BROX Band
UK artist Kyla Brox was recently declared the winner of the 5th UKBlues Challenge which took place at Worthing Pier’s Southern Pavilion on Saturday 8th September 2018. Kyla Brox and her band will now go forward to represent the UK at the 35th International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, USA organised by The Blues Foundation between 22nd and 26th January 2019. They will be […]
BRYAN LEE Sanctuary
Bryan Lee – Sanctuary Released on Ear Relevant Records “This is the Blues/Gospel record I always wanted to make,” says the Braille Blues Daddy. “Sanctuary” first came to Bryan Lee in a dream. The night before a festival performance in a church in Spitsbergen, Norway, the blind New Orleans guitar legend heard an entire musical […]
WILY BO WALKER Almost Transparent Blues
Album Review for WILY BO WALKER – Almost Transparent Blues Released on Mescal Canyon Records Wily (pronounced Whiley) Bo Walker was born in Scotland but has contrived to play and sing blues (and gospel, R ‘n’ B, soul, and rock) so convincingly that he has been inducted into the U.S. Blues Hall Of Fame. On the […]
FANTASTIC NEGRITO Please Don’t Be Bead
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ISSUE 104 OUT NOW!!
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][dfd_single_image enable_link=”yes” tutorials=”” image=”3861″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Highlights in Issue 104 are… Blues/rock giant Joe Bonamassa on his 13th studio album Redemption Dan Patlansky talks Perfection Kills, Fender endorsements & his current acoustic tour Delbert McClinton gives us a rare interview from Tampa Bay Blues Festival Shemekia Copeland is climbing the charts with America’s Child Tony […]
EDINBURGH BLUES & ROCK FESTIVAL 2018
Edinburgh Blues And Rock Festival – Edinburgh Corn Exchange – Saturday 22nd September 2018 This was the third of its kind, but the first, fully run by UKBlues Award-winning Edinburgh Blues Club. The venue was The Corn Exchange which usually has attendances of up to two thousand people. Not the case with this event but what […]
EDDIE BOYD The Singles Collection 1947-62
Album Review for EDDIE BOYD – The Singles Collection 1947-62 Released on Discovery Records If you are not familiar with Eddie Boyd, then this is the perfect way to start your education. Starting his career as Little Eddie Boyd in the 40’s writing and performing his own songs like the opening track I Had To […]
MARIA MULDAUR releases 41st album Don’t You Feel My Leg
Maria Muldaur’s Don’t You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker. Released by The Last Music Company, the album sees the vocalist, and revered interpreter of American Roots music, pay tribute to Blue Lu Barker, the New Orleans singer who, from the late 1930’s onwards recorded dozens of Blues and Jazz […]
GREG COULSON What’s New
Album Review for GREG COULSON – What’s New? Released Independently Greg Coulson is a very talented multi-instrumentalist, who has performed at the Great British Rock and Blues Festival, the Top Secret Blues Festival and HRH Blues IV. His debut album What’s New? is a collection of nine self-penned tracks, covering a variety of styles, which […]
ROY BUCHANAN My Babe
Album Review for ROY BUCHANAN – My Babe Released on Angel Air Records One of the great moments in guitar playing history occurs when Telecaster man Roy Buchanan seems to explode with sheer pain during a solo on a version of Neil Young’s Down By The River. You have rarely heard such a desolate sound. […]
