DANI WILDE – Howling At The Moon (new single)
Blues Matters writer Dani Wilde has released a brand new single today called Howling at the Moon and it has been released via the Vizztone Label Group. British Blues Award winner Dani Wilde burst onto the international blues scene in 2007, opening for Jools Holland at London’s Royal Albert Hall and signing to prestigious blues […]
PAYING THE BLUES FORWARD Needs Your Help!
Singer/songwriter/producer Mike Zito has teamed up with Nick Moss to raise money for out of work Blues musicians who find themselves in severe financial hardship as a result of all of their tours getting cancelled because of the coronavirus. The project that they have set up is called Paying The Blues Forward – all artists involved […]
Issue 113 Out Now!
INSIDE THIS EDITION OF BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE… Larkin Poe Featured cover artists Megan and Rebecca Lovell AKA Larkin Poe give us the low down on gear, producing their own music, and new album Self Made Man. PLUS INTERVIEWS WITH… Tinsley Ellis The ultimate road warrior and master of mayhem talks Ice Cream in Hell. ———-BM———- […]
STEPHEN HARRISON’S Top 10 Blues
I started listening to the Blues through listening to Led Zeppelin when I started High School. Its what they had based their music on by re-working some old Blues tunes and keeping the Blues as a base for their own material. As an impressionable teenager I was immediately hooked on Zeppelin and through this began […]
Coronavirus And The Impact On Musicians
HOW THE PANDEMIC IS AFFECTING MUSICIANS With loads of musicians losing huge incomes from cancelled tours and gigs, Blues Matters contacted several well-known names from the world of blues to assess the impact of this awful virus on their livelihoods. We also asked them what steps they had taken to continue promoting their music and […]
THE BISHOP’s Top 10 Blues
Longtime BM writer Mr Dave Scott AKA The Bishop gives us his Top 10 Blues. 1 – John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillen My love of the blues started with this 1962 classic vinyl EP, The Blues Of John Lee Hooker by the greatest all-time blues superstar. Listening to the 1948 recording changed everything forever and […]
UK BLUES AWARDS CANCELLED
The UKBlues Federation have been advised that the venue they’d hired for the 2020 UKBlues Awards has now closed for the foreseeable future due to the ongoing pandemic. They have announced the following information regarding Tickets – ‘For those of you who have already purchased your tickets, TicketWeb have, we understand contacted you by e-mail […]
JARED JAMES NICHOLS Threw Me To The Wolves
Wisconsin-bred guitarist Jared James Nichols released his new single “Threw Me To The Wolves” on Wednesday, March 11th. The single is available to download and stream from https://orcd.co/tmttw Says Jared: “’Threw Me To The Wolves’ is a song we can all relate to. In life, we ultimately have to look certain situations in the eye, good […]
RUTH PATTERSON On Coping With The Coronavirus Crisis
The impact of the Coronavirus on the ability of musicians worldwide to earn a living is considerable given the closure of all venues. Apart from a small proportion of established high earners, the majority of bands and solo artists rely on gigs and the sale of merchandise to fund their chosen profession. Fans who can […]
DAVE ARCARI’s Top 10 Blues
Coming up in Issue 113 is an interview with the Scottish blues-rock giant Dave Arcari – in the meantime, he has given us his Top 10 favourite Blues tracks for you to check out. Dave will also be doing Facebook live streams over the coming days and weeks and has 2 new singles to announce […]
