Pete tells me that the three Hookers boys will no longer be promoting bands at Hookers Blues Club at the Wrexham Rugby Club.  Attendances have not been good enough so they have called it off. In Pete’s words…. This very sad considering that we had nine years of arguably being the best club in the [...]

YouTube goes rockabilly.  There are two reasons for posting this YouTube clip….. 1.  Robert Gordon is a very good singer 2.  Chris Spedding is a cracking guitarist and will be featured (without Robert Gordon) at the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, tomorrow, 21st November at Pacific Road, Birkenhead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9GEUoX-JJ8

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If you don’t love this baby then you have a hole in your soul. The Smokey Wilson Band – Smokey Wilson, Fred Kaplan, Richard Innes, Hollywood Fats and the GREAT William Clarke. I don’t know who is on the bass – it doesn’t look like Willie Brinlee or Alex Schultz – is it Larry Taylor [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Duane Allman – Fillmore East – 6/26/71, originally uploaded by EddieBerman. Two birthdays to celebrate today. Firstly Duane Allman – killer slide guitar player from The Allman Brothers. Born in 1946 [...]

Chris Cain is 51 today.  Born 19 Nov 1955 in San Jose, CA. Here’s a (poor quality) YouTube clip the quality is the video NOT the performance.

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes! This is a fun activity for budding musicians.  I can honestly say that on taking this test it’s just as well I am retired from music, writing this website instead of playing in a band.  I was rubbish. I only got 58% what does everyone else get?

Here’s some news just in from Little Toby Walker. I just returned from the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in Montecello NY. Basically it’s a huge gathering of EVERYONE in the acoustic music industry – festival promoters, DJ’s, venue owners, house concert folks, agents, record companies.. the works. I was selected out of hundreds of [...]

Blues Harmonica – Adam Gussow & Dennis Gruenling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pmrmpbeQ_c 

HELEN WATSON Birkenhead Priory: 17/11/06 As part of the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, the smallest venue used, the unique Birkenhead Priory, was host to a superb evening from the supremely-talented Helen Watson – who enchanted the audience with two most varied sets, touching on jazz, blues, folk, soul and more! From the heady [...]

Arrived back in Blighty at 7am today.  I’m pretty tired I have to say.  I’ll post a couple of Massachusetts pictures when I have uploaded to Flickr. It appears that there are some technical problems with bluesinthenorthwest.com, the domain is mid-transfer between my old providers and the site hosters and the name servers are out [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ruth Brown, originally uploaded by Roadsidepictures. The legendary R&B singer Ruth Brown died yesterday in Las Vegas. She was 78. There is a nice obituary in today’s Chicago Tribune. Here’s a [...]

A last minute gig for anyone in the Blackpool area, not strictly blues but I have checked out the website and they are a great band. Helium Soul play Riff’s, Blackpool, on Saturday 18th November. Since the band released their debut album “Mass of Four” at the end of 2005, they have gone on to [...]

Today’s Blues birthdays are… CLARK, W. C.                    (g/songw) b. 1939-1116, AUSTIN, TX PHILLIPS, BREWER     (g/HOUND DOG TAYLOR) b. 1924-1116, COITA, MS SUMLIN, HUBERT           (g/HOWLIN’ WOLF) b. 1931-1116, GREENWOOD, MS JUst like yesterday you’ll have to did out your own YouTube clips.  In fact here’s a better idea — any clips that you rustle up please [...]

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Some proper Chicago Blues from Left Dizz in Europe 1981. Great band and a great gritty solo.  The real deal.