It’s all blues this week as The Harbourside feature Scottish talant Rev Doc and the Congregation for their second gig of the season. The season started off in fine style with Hans Theessink last week. There were about 100 blues lovers, Hans sold 50 CDs and they raised £110 in the raffle for The Children’s [...]

After the termendous opening night Ray keeps the standards up by featuring top northwest band Smokehouse Blues next Friday 5 Oct. I was chatting to the incredible Johny Hewitt at the Memo Gonzalez gig and Johny was enthusing about the his new Smokehouse line-up. You are in for a treat, an evening of high intensity [...]

This made me smile. I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars films (I am an outcast and freak in the IT company for whom I work) but I do recognise some of the characters. Darth Blues Nice use of the fabulous Sonny Terry.

The bluesinthenorthwest.com flyer is now in three formats…. There’s the traditional PDF There’s a double page JPG There is a single page JPG I’m a chemist by trade; a life in analytical laboratories and laboratory informatics does not really give you great design skills.  If there are any talented people out there who would like [...]

Nope! I’m not asking for money; I love my blues so much that I am paying good money to host this site free of charge, as a service to the blues community in the north west. Here’s what you can do to help. This site needs more users, this site needs more feedback. Write a [...]

It doesn’t seem fair at all. What I could be doing if I didn’t have to work all the hours on the clock. http://www.bluescruise.com/bluescruise.html

There are two blues acts coming to Alexander’s in Chester in October. Mon 15th Oct features the ever popular Carvin Jones Band then three days later on Thu 18th, UK bluesman Ian Parker Band will be featured. Advance tickets for both shows are now on sale at the venue.

Following on from the CD reviews of both Dave Gross and Gina Sicilia here they are together live on a US TV show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZU39YMaRQ

I think it would be churlish to promote one venue over another for the Walter Trout tour. He’s playing a few dates in the NW on Oct 11 Fleetwood The Marine Hall 01253 770547 12 Birkenhead Pacific Road 0151 647 0752 13 Kendall Brewery Arts Centre 01539 725133 14 Manchester Academy 0161 832 1111 15 [...]

An overdose of narcotics according to the Mark D Rubin Blog and an interview with the great man followed by a beautiful demontration of pure tone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Q11ebTz_A

Nothing but sadness, praise and fond memories on the two mailing lists that I subscribe to Blues-L and Harp-L. I sit here back home after my long journey listening to Gary’s songs shedding a small tear with the news finally sinking in. Some obits and tributes have started to appear and I will try to [...]

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As mentioned in the comments section by Jonny Gary Primich has indeed passed away.  For me Gary was one of the best harminica players of his generation.  He had a very unique tone and phrasing, I learned a huge amount from Gary and I own all his CDs.  Today is a sad day for all [...]

I am wishing a happy birthday to bluesinthenorthwest.com and all our readers. Today we are two years old. The first post made to bluesinthenorthwest.com was on 24 Sept 2005. Back in those days the site was hosted on the old blogspot site before being migrated over to the fancy new fangled wordpress site about one [...]

Not strictly blues – but pretty damn good. These were two electrifying performers and in their day were absolutely top of their respective fields. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIyzNISw1Q RIP squared.

There is a fabulous stable of talent at Daptone records in Brooklyn, New York. The cornerstone of this label are The Dap Kings. Here’s what the Daptone website says about The Dap Kings. The Dap-Kings are the backing band for Sharon Jones, as well as the mighty house-band of Daptone records, today’s premier source of [...]