October 31, 2009 | Leave a comment
In this issue there are articles on two touring US musicians. The much-celebrated Boston based guitarist, singer and bandleader Tom Principato is visiting the UK, briefly, for the first time, as part of a European tour. He is playing at Carlisle Blues Festival and at Famous Monday Blues in Oxford. He will be coming back [...]
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September 29, 2009 | Leave a comment
Our cover artist, Bobby Tench, is a musician who has played and recorded with so many people that his biography reads like a Who’s Who of British blues. He began his career as a bass player and was a noted singer. He has since developed as a formidable guitarist. And the beat goes on because [...]
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September 1, 2009 | Leave a comment
When Blues In Britain staffers see familiar people at blues festivals, we ask each other, ‘Is that Bob or Dave?’ Well a couple of articles this month are about two Daves and their fellow musicians. Guitarist Dave Peabody, a long-time member of the UK blues fraternity, has now made a solo album with his fellow [...]
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July 30, 2009 | Leave a comment
Our featured covered artist, US guitarist and singer Coco Montoya, is headlining at The Great British R & B Festival, at Colne in Lancashire, on the August Bank Holiday weekend. He has lived the blues life, on the road with Albert Collins and then with John Mayall and as a bandleader in his own right. [...]
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June 30, 2009 | Leave a comment
For your entertainment this month, we have three major articles about musicians who frequent our shores regularly. Geoff Achison will be touring here in late September and October. He has sent us an e-letter, which fills us in on what he has been doing recently. We also have copies of his excellent CD, One Ticket, [...]
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June 3, 2009 | Leave a comment
Our main feature this month was mostly written by Jeremy Spencer himself. He first contacted us because we reviewed the album In Session, which he made for Secret Records in one afternoon with Dave Briggs. As I had just watched the In Session DVD, in which Jeremy talks about the songs he is playing, I [...]
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May 6, 2009 | Leave a comment
There is so much happening blues-wise it is hard to keep up! I went to the 21st Burnley Blues Festival, at Easter, which had its best ever line-up. Congratulations to Barbara Hood and her staff at The Mechanics. For once the sun shone the whole weekend, which made the canal cruise with Eddie Martin particularly [...]
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April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
This issue features interview with two artists who have new albums coming out. Veteran blues and Gospel singer, harmonica player, actor, radio presenter and musicologist Paul Jones has made his first solo album in thirty-seven years. In that time, he has been busy, notably touring with The Blues Band and The Manfreds. He has made [...]
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