This Thursday 3rd April Doug MacLeod is at The Harbourside in Liverpool then the following night Fri 4th at The Lawrence House studio at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool. “Doug MacLeod, now there’s a man who can really play the blues” – David “Honeyboy” Edwards Liverpool – £10 from John Welsh on 0151 428 2855 [...]

SEAN COSTELLO “WE CAN GET TOGETHER” (Delta Groove Music, Inc. – DGPCD120) The Philadelphia-born, Atlanta-raised bluesman, Sean Costello first came to be noticed when he won the Beale Street Blues Society’s new talent award at 14, and followed this with his debut album, “Call The Cops”, in 1996, at just 16, before featuring on Susan [...]

I saw Kevin Brown back in the 80s at the Band on the Wall in Manchester. I think that he was supporting Joe Louis Walker. It was Ben Felten at the music site Music Ramblings that reminded me of Kevin. Here’s a sweet original called “all around the world”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6Tj7BJZH8

TODAY’S CHICAGO BLUES: CD Review: Dennis Gruenling, I Just Keep Lovin’ Him The blues website “Today’s Chicago Blues” feature a review of the new CD from Dennis Gruenling. Dennis is great, he’s a fabulous player with a monster tone. http://www.myspace.com/gruenling

Here’s Ian Collard from the highly rated Australian band Collard Greens and Gravy. http://youtube.com/watch?v=z163dzvLDzY http://www.collardgreensandgravy.com/

New York City guitarist and singer, Chris Bergson, and his manager, Kate Ross, have kindly sent us some of his back catalogue: BLUES (Self-release, 2003) Recorded live at Smoke in New York City, “Blues” catches Chris Bergson in trio format, with Brian Charette (Hammond B-3) and Matt Wilson (drums), on a five-track EP, comprising three [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } There will be an all-day blues festival in North Wales in May. Colwyn Blues Festival at Theatre Colwyn, Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay (Nr. Llandudno) in North Wales. Sat 31st May 2008 [...]

Here is the new T-Birds line-up as will be gigging in Birkenhead on 10 April http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wweq19Gduv0

I only saw the Hoax one time in their whole career. I thought that they were pretty good. At the time that the Hoax were pushing their music careers onwards to national fame I wasn’t. I have seen Jon Amor solo three times at the excellent venue Telfords Warehouse here in Chester. The last time [...]

This spring, along with the regular blues at the Harbourside, there are other notable bluesy events in Liverpool and elsewhere on Merseyside. The Harbourside 3 April – Doug MacLeod 01 May – Hamilton Loomis 02 July – Phil Bates (at Allerton Golf Club) Liverpool Philharmonic 26 May – Eric Bibb 29 June – Buddy Guy [...]

By the time that you read this I’ll be in Spain – Madrid como siempre. Some work and some fun, so not all bad. The site is on auto-publish but I will be checking in each day as usual. This year you will see much less auto-publish as I have promised myself that I will [...]

There is a plethora of blues available in my part of the bluesinthenorthwest.com region this Friday 28 Mar 2008. I have already posted about the first appearance of The Backbones at Warrington and the first appearance of Roland Chadwick at Worthenbury.  So two excellent nights are in order this Friday. Unfortunately neither of bluesinthenorthwest.com’s Chester representatives [...]

Roland Chadwick Goin’ Up The Country Blues & Roots Club, Worthenbury Village Hall Friday 28th March @ 8pm Australian guitarist Roland Chadwick will be making his first appearance at Worthenbury Village Hall this Friday 28th March. As a classically trained guitarist he has performed with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and The Boston Symphony Orchestra and has recorded [...]

I was looking forward to seeing Hamilton Loomis a couple of times as part of his UK tour this spring. Unfortunately the Warrington gig has been cancelled but the Liverpool Harbourside gig is still on. Hamilton comes highly recommended by bluesinthenorthwest.com. His gig in Warrington two years ago was excellent and I hear that he [...]

Press release for Blue C   17 April – Fletcher Christian, Cockermouth 18 April – New Inn, Hoff near Appleby Appearing in Cumbria in April. ——————————— Raphael Callaghan and Christine Purnell bring their brand of Mersey Delta blues to Cumbria in April. Under the name Blue C, the Liverpool slide guitar/bass duo have made a [...]