September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
Our cover star this month, Ian Jennings, is one of the UK’s most talented bass players, playing both electric and double bass. He was a founder member of the amazing band, The Big Town Playboys, and he plays with touring US musicians, such as Lisa Mills and Mud Morganfield, as well as UK artists. Ian [...]
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August 3, 2010 | Leave a comment
This month’s cover artist is Dana Gillespie, singer, songwriter and British blues diva. Dana leads at least three lives; apart from her blues career she also records and plays her own style of Indian music and she arranges the programme for the annual Mustique Blues Festival. The festival raises money for scholarships for youngsters on [...]
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June 30, 2010 | Leave a comment
June has been really exciting at Blues In Britain. Firstly Sandi Thom came in to talk about her new album Merchants and Thieves, for this issue. You could win one of three copies, which are prizes in this month’s magazine competition. Then slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer was in London so I took him and his [...]
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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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