The John O’Leary Band at The Harbourside Club, Liverpool Marina Thursday, 21st February 2008 (Doors: 8pm, show starts at 8.45pm) John O’Leary boasts a tremendous pedigree in British blues music. In the sixties, he was a founder member, with guitarist Kim Simmonds, of the highly acclaimed Savoy Brown Blues Band. Other bands enhanced by John’s [...]

Barney Kessel’s trio in a broadcast recording in the Netherlands in 1964. With him on bass is Buddy Woodson and Stan Levey on drums. Barney Kessel – One Mint Julep http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQsBuaSLHqw

I read this on the Blues-L mailing list. From “Latest News” at Piedmont Talent dot com… “Little Charlie Baty To Begin “Soft” Retirement Thursday, January 24, 2008 Little Charlie Baty to Retire – Charles Baty founder and guitar wizard of Little Charlie & The Nightcats, has decided to enter into “soft” retirement after the band’s [...]

This excellent YouTube video was posted on the Musical Ramblings website. If Stairway to Heaven was a Beatles song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I

Another non-blues act that will have some appeal to some bluesinthenorthwest.com readers. Adrian Legg is a living legend. I remember seeing the face of an old guitarist friend of mine after he had just seen Legg, if I recall his exact words were “not human” (in a good way you understand). Adrian will be playing [...]

Beyoncé to play Etta James in movie http://tinyurl.com/26tuog http://imdb.com/title/tt1042877/ This will either be really good or an absolute horrible trainwreck. There’s no doubt that Beyonce can sing – I still love that Chi-Lites sample on Crazy in Love. I really hope that she can do Etta and that the rest of the cast and crew [...]

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Ian Siegal concert to be live video webcast for free Watch his Amsterdam show on online-concert-channel Fabchannel.com January 29th, British blues sensation Ian Siegal performs at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. This entire concert will be webcast live, in video and audio, on online-concert-channel Fabchannel at www.fabchannel.com/ian_siegal. The webcast starts at 9pm UK time, that’s 22:00 [...]

The Blues Blasters are a Stockport-based outfit, who tend to restrict their gigs to that area of the country. However, unlike many bands that choose not to travel far, they possess considerable ability and put on a very entertaining show. It was fitting therefore that their first visit to the Warrington club attracted such a [...]

Alexis Korner – Rhythm And Blues Champion Three part series BBC – Radio 2 – Thursday 31 January – 2303-2330 Broadcaster and bandleader Alexis Korner was the catalyst for the British Blues explosion of the 60s. With 25 solo albums, a successful radio career and the respect of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll musicians [...]

Nothing at all to do with blues, but this is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI

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Not a blues act but I am sure that the acoustic virtuososity of Gareth Pearson will appeal to a few bluesinthenorthwest.com readers. Gareth Pearson is an acoustic guitar player and composer from Cwmbran, South Wales in the UK. Gareth has toured with Tommy Emmanuel, Jan Akkerman, played at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention in [...]

It’s not just in recent years that we have had great bands and great venues in the northwest. Grahame has a scrapbook of reviews that he wrote mainly for the Chester Chronicle. We have decided to republish these as a long running occasional series over the coming months. Grahame is chosing the reviews for re-publishing [...]

DOWN AT ANTONE’S Alexander’s Jazz Theatre, Chester: 08/08/96 For those who like their blues loud and authentic with bags of feel, there was a treat at Alexander’s last week in the shape of Down At Antone’s, one of the best bands on the North West circuit. The band – Ken Peace (harmonica), Neil Partington (vocals [...]

From: The Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter Francis Clay – November 16, 1923 – January 23, 2008: Another legendary Chicago blues master has left us. J.D. and Laura Diamond report the passing last night of drummer Francis Clay. Born in Rock Island, IL, on November 16, 1923, Clay quickly found a love of music. He first [...]