25th Chicago Blues Festival
September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
Chris Simmonds reports on the 25th Chicago Blues Festival – online and exclusive!
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2nd Mijas International Blues Festival
September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Jane Spence reports on the 2nd Mijas International Blues Festival – online and exclusive!
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Peter Green
September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
Check out this video of Peter Green, released in advance of a forthcoming 4CD anthology of his work..
Continue ReadingBlues in Britain Awards
September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Blues In Britain Scroll of Honour Awarded for Special Contribution to Blues in the British Isles: Rory Gallagher – Peter Green – John Mayall – Paul Jones – Mike Vernon – Jo Ann Kelly – Alexis Korner Blues In Britain Gallery of the Greats The following artists have won the annual poll five times! Elevated [...]
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Bill Hurley & The Inmates
September 3, 2008 | 10 Comments
Here’s an excerpt from an interview called ‘Back In History – The Inmates’ that we ran in Issue 53 of Blueprint in 2001. With two albums out and following a barnstorming gig at the Borderline in September, 70s R&B giants The Inmates are back on the loose again. Keith Shackleton talked to lead singer Bill [...]
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The Elevators’ John Whippy
September 3, 2008 | 5 Comments
Back in Issue 39 we did an interview with the Elevators frontman, the late John Whippy. Here it is online, by way of tribute..
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Joss Stone – Soul Sessions
September 3, 2008 | Leave a comment
Archive CD review from 2003 Currently slippin’ and slidin out of your radio with her sly White Stripes cover ‘Fell In Love With A Boy’, its the end of the beginning for Joss Stone. Let’s see what we have here – just sixteen, ‘from that little English town of Devon’ as our American friends would [...]
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Roger Lewis Interview Out-takes
September 2, 2008 | Leave a comment
Roger Lewis, saxophonist and founder member of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, was interviewed by Jon Taylor for Blues in Britain (issue 41). Here, in an unprinted extract from the same interview, he talks about some of his musical experiences before the band formed in 1976.
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London Blues Jam
September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Every Tuesday, Blues In Britain holds a jam session at The Spice Of Life, Cambridge Circus, London WC2..
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