June 1, 2010 | Leave a comment
A Blues In Britain reader told me that Larry Miller, our featured artist this month, is very entertaining live. When I heard he was bringing out a new album, called Unfinished Business, it was a good opportunity to invite him in to Blues In Britain for interview. He turns out to be a very determined [...]
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April 28, 2010 | Leave a comment
Now that Spring is finally with us, visiting blues artists are here again, weather and volcanic ash permitting. Eric Bibb is touring in Europe and will be in the UK and Ireland throughout May. He is promoting his new album Booker’s Guitar, which has him playing solo and with harmonica player Grant Dermody. Eric was [...]
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March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
This is the one-hundredth issue under the title Blues In Britain, which would have been more obvious if the last issue, number 99, had not been erroneously numbered 98! The magazine, first published in 1989, was originally called Blueprint and reached 80 issues by December 1996.
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March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
As a teenager in the sixties when the popular music of the day was based on r&b, I became a born-again blues fan after I saw the light at one of Eric Clapton’s 24 Nights shows at the Royal Albert Hall. Many of the people I interview have been blues men who have, as Chris [...]
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February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
Our cover artist Ray Gelato, unusually for Blues In Britain, is at the jazz end of rhythm and blues. His band Ray Gelato’s Giant reflects the time when every American r & b and rock and roll band had a saxophonist. I went to see Ray and he told me all about his influences and [...]
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December 26, 2009 | Leave a comment
To start the year we have two major articles on UK artists who excel at different ends of the blues. Justin Adams has gone from being a major mainstream musician to working in the World music genre with African musicians. He has a 2009 album out, Tell No Lies, which he recorded with Gambian, Juldeh [...]
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November 30, 2009 | Leave a comment
The last issue of the year gives us a chance to look back and a tour by The Hoax has Scott Duncan looking back over the past twenty years. I recall this band when it was composed, mostly, of teenagers. They grew in talent and status and then were gone before they fulfilled the band’s [...]
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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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