There is an excellent interview and live songs from Dave Kelly on the excellent Podcast Raven’n’Blues. Dave joined Dave on the top deck of the houseboat in the Thames for about an hour of conversation and live acoustic songs. The session will be edited down to a shorter segment in the main show that will [...]

Why don’t you celebrate Mike Morgan‘s birthday by checking out his live video All Night Long from Don O’s DFW Blues Scene Sampler Project. I’m sure that Mike would be the first to admit that he’s not the best singer that ever lived however he sho’nuff can play the ass off that guitar.

Robert Nighthawk. Born 30 November 1909, Helena AR Brownie McGhee. Born 30 November 1915, Knoxville, TN Mike Morgan (of Mike Morgan and The Crawl). Born 30 November 1959, Dallas, TX

Robert “H-Bomb” Ferguson a singer and pianist who urged listeners to “rock baby rock” at the dawn of the Rock ‘n’ Roll era, died on Sunday November 26 of complications from emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease. He was 77. You can read more on H-Bomb and his legendary wigs here. There are a few obituaries; this [...]

A choice has to be made by us Cheshire folk this Friday. Warrington RnB Club features Papa George. Telfords Warehouse in Chester have Jon Amor. I know that Jon isn’t a blues act but he is still really good. I’ll be in Telfords – come and say Hi.

One of the best reads on the Internet is Preston Hubbard’s story – available from his website. If you don’t know who Prez is – he was the bass player with the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful Of Blues; he has played on records by SRV, Bonnie Rait and dozens of others. The good news is [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A blues band leader for 40 years, born in the North West UK but an adopted Californian – today is John Mayall’s birthday. Born 1933 in Macclesfield – he’s 73! The [...]

A fantastic clip of a pretty unknown Betty Jeanette at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival.  Backing here are pianist Sammy Price, guitarist Lafayette Thomas and others. Thanks to Chuck Nevitt for tipping me off about this clip on his the blues and then some blog.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Today would have been the birthday of the legend Jimi Hendrix. Even my daughter recognises the iconic pictures of Hendrix even though she doesn’t know any of the songs. That’s how [...]

Nicky Moore’s Blues Corporation + the Sean Webster Band Alford Hall, Warrington – Friday 24th November 2006 Alford Hall is a larger venue used by Ray and Barbara O’Hare for occasional shows in addition to their regular gigs held at the Warrington RnB Club. Nicky Moore has been a firm favourite with the Warrington punters [...]

bluesinthenorthwest.com suffered an unplanned outage today. This was entirely due to a fault on my part, not reading and acting upon an important email sent by my hosting company. My apologies to all who were affected. All should be Ok now – if not, drop me a line.

My mailbox has been surprisingly light in gig information the last week or two, I think that this may be due to the Christmas lull in live music that is approaching us. But please heed this reminder – I can only post information to the main website and the bluesinthenorthwest.com calendar if I get the [...]

Yeah, yeah – I know that this is supposed to be a blues site, but I pay for the hosting so I’ll post what I want.  If you don’t like it tell me – better still, if you DO like it tell me also.  Anyway, on to the business in hand. I’m a big fan [...]

CHRIS  SPEDDING Pacific Road Arts Centre, Birkenhead: 21/11/06 This was one of the long-awaited gigs at this year’s International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, as the British guitarist with the longest cv in recording, Chris Spedding, made a rare British solo appearance at Pacific Road, in the company of Mark Davies on bass and the [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Let’s all remember the legendary Albert Collins – the master of the Telecaster who passed away on this day in 1993 in Las Vegas, NV – Albert was 61. It is [...]

From ‘fessor Mojo… His name was Robert Lockwood Jr. after his father and he always insisted that Robert Lockwood Jr. was the way he wanted to be addressed or placed on the bill because that was his proper name. He was named after his father Robert Lockwood although he barely knew him. Others insisted on [...]