STOP PRESS – THIS JUST IN Bring in the New Year with SEASICK STEVE on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, tonight on BBC2 at 10.50pm  alongside Paul Weller, Zutons, Kooks, Lily Allen, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave etc. (Then please vote him best performer at www.bbc.co.uk/later!) Steve’s new album Dog House Music is available at www.bronzerat.co.uk [...]

It looks like Grahame has been out in town this week and sends in the following report….. I know that a lot of bluesinthenorthwest.com readers like Gary Moore – the Music Zone chain have a couple of his more recent releases at an absolute snip! “Back To The Blues” from 2000 is available for £1.97 [...]

Ray and Barbara have set up a great line of Blues for 2007 in two locations in Warrington. 19-Jan – Paul Lamb 23-Feb – The Stumble 02-Mar – Ian Siegal 10-Mar – Mike Sanchez at Alford Hall 23-Mar – Marcus Malone 13-Apr – Johnny Mastro & Mama’s boys The three March gigs are specifically to [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not blues but I still think that the live performance of “Crazy” by Gnarl Barkley on TOTP earlier in the year was one of the highlights of the TV year.  If you haven’t seen the clip before then I strongly advise you to check it out.  I liked the electronic [...]

Jonny from The Stumble sends his New Year greetings to all readers of bluesinthenorthwest.com in the form of a YouTube clip. Jonny has picked a little peach of a tune from the 1960s.  If this clip of Junior Walker and the Allstars does not get you dancing around your keyboard then you have a hole [...]

As usual there is a fabulous line up of acts upcoming for Worthenbury in the first part of 2007. Jan 19th – Nine Below Zero (unplugged) (or as we call them in Yorkshire Nahn Biloh Zehru) Sat Feb 24th – Rag Mama Rag Fri March 9th – Doug MacLeod Fri March 30th – Sonny Black [...]

The Harbourside Club in Liverpool have a great line up of gigs for the start of 2007. 10-Jan The Stumble 21-Feb John O’Leary Band 08-Mar Doug MacLeod 13-Mar Rocky Athas Band 11-Apr Honeyboy Hickling 15-May Little Toby Walker 28-Jun Geoff Achison As well as the gigs at the Harbourside Club, the same team are promoting [...]

Today’s YouTube video is not blues at all but is from one of the Jazz Masters – the fabulous Duke Ellington. Imagine being big enough to be able to carry a band of that size these days. That’s how important Ellington was. This is a great clip, showing his fabulous orchestra. I especially love the [...]

Christmas Day saw the launch of an all-new digital radio station called thejazz. Available on DAB, on Sky and NTL’s radio channels and online at www.thejazz.com, the station will play a range of music across the jazz genre and plans to engage listeners in a debate throughout 2007 by asking listeners to discuss “What is [...]

Man could this cat play. This is a fabulous clip of the late Jesse “Guitar” Taylor from Lubbock, TX. Tell you what – he’s also got a fabulous band with him – that night in the Cricketers in London must have been a blast. The groove on this song should be bottled and sold. Thanks [...]

You can see in advance the photos that will eventually be on Matt’s website. Here is a photoshoot from Canada. .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Flickr photo Matt Schofield, originally uploaded by neuroticjose.

I agree with Chuck Nevitt entirely on this one.  I had not heard of Red Archibald so was a little unmoved when I heard that he has passed away.  However, after reading Chuck’s post below, I checked out the 10 min promo clip and really enjoyed the clips and the voiceover. You can read Chuck’s  [...]

It’s great to see Freddie King’s daughter Wanda King keeping up the family Blues tradition. I recommend that you take a look at Don O’s great Dallas and Fort Worth Blues site. It’s at www.bluesdfw.com. From BluesDFW you can get to Don’s Blues Scene Sampler Project and recently posted is a clip of the Wanda [...]

There are a lot of facts about the life and times of James Brown on today’s BluesPower site.

Albert and Stevie together.

I don’t normally wear t-shirts, however I did find this one quite amusing. I wish that some of our UK bluesmen would take note. Flickr photo ZZ Top show 2005 summer Québec Originally uploaded by bluesmama.