Bettye LaVette Interview
Bettye LaVette’s a US treasure, a blues-soul singer with a truly remarkable background and heritage. Now approaching seventy-five years of age – “I’ll be 75 in January,” she tells me – she has weathered countless twists and turns in her own personal musical journey since first recording as a young sixteen-year-old teenager with Atlantic Records […]
Issue 115 OUT NOW!
INSIDE THIS EDITION OF BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE… Featured artist Walter Trout talks to us about his latest album Ordinary Madness. GET YOUR COPY HERE FOR MORE INTERVIEWS… WALTER TROUT Featured cover artist Walter Trout gives us an in-depth talk about his latest album Ordinary Madness. “I can tell you this as honest as I can […]
New album from Kirk Fletcher out this September
Former guitarist with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and award-winning American blues guitarist Kirk Fletcher is very happy to release his sixth album “My Blues Pathway” via Cleopatra Records. The 10 tracks will be released on CD, vinyl and digital on Friday September 25th. The album is available to pre-order from https://orcd.co/kirk_fletcher_my_blues_pathway. “My Blues Pathway” follows hot […]
BOBBY RUSH Rawer Than Raw
JACKSON, Miss. — On August 28th, 2020, Grammy-winning blues icon Bobby Rush will release Rawer Than Raw, a stripped-down, acoustic tribute to the rich blues history of Mississippi featuring songs from a handful of blues greats from his adopted home state. The record, on the 86-year-old’s own Deep Rush Records label in partnership with Thirty […]
Sitting in with KAZ HAWKINS plus Album Review
Sitting In With… Kaz Hawkins by Colin Campbell Multi-award-winning Kaz Hawkins is a singer, songwriter, actress, radio presenter and mental health campaigner. The Belfast born singer-songwriter now lives in France and is fast becoming a performing icon using her music in her own personal mental health awareness campaign. Kaz embodies true grit and honesty and […]
An Interview with JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
There are guitarists who are maybe known as being ‘big-hitters’ then there are a few, a handful at most, who might merit the moniker of being ‘huge-hitters.’ UK picker John McLaughlin falls into the latter camp, with a truly astonishing ability and drive that has never slowed, drifted or faltered in what is now over […]
KAT RIGGINS Top 10 Blues
Inspired by the variety of music in her parents’ music collection, Kat’s own music style has mixtures of blues, soul, gospel, hip hop, rhythm & blues and rock & roll. But most of all she is a blues woman. She fronts her Blues Revival Movement, a musical revolution that aims to awaken the masses to […]
SID WHELAN – Waiting For Payday
Album Review for Sid Whelan – Waitin’ For Payday – Released via Presidio. New York-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Sid Whelan has a varied background that includes associations and working with the likes of acoustic blues guitar ace Woody Mann, country and rock singer Steve Earle, and world music acts The Lijadu Sisters and Afro […]
ROBBIE REAY – Up and Down
Album Review for Robbie Reay’s new album – Up and Down – Released Independently. Loving the vibe on this new release from Robbie Reay, ten original songs influenced heavily by an authentic delta blues inflexion. There are different styles, blues, roots, even folk influences. There is a real flow to the construction in lyrics and […]
LIBBY RAE WATSON & BERT DEIVERT She Shimmy
Album Review for Libby Rae Watson & Bert Deivert – She Shimmy – Released via Hard Danger Records. Now here’s an interesting album, a collaboration between two mighty fine acoustic blues musicians. Deivert hails from Boston, Mass, but has now lived in Sweden for almost forty years with many albums behind him including a few […]
