Ian Siegal Band -Warrington Blues Club -30 May 2008 It was an excellent night at Warrington Blues Club last night featuring the excellent Ian Siegal Band. A full review will follow but I thought that I’d just upload a few initial impressions and a dodgy picture. Ian and the boys stormed through over two hours [...]

The article starts…. For a span of several years in the 1960s, you couldn’t walk through wide swaths of Philadelphia without hearing the burble of a Hammond B3 organ. The instrument came to embody a hip-hugging Philly jazz sound that was equal parts churchyard hum, speakeasy sizzle and slash-and-burn bar-room blooze. And few would master [...]

Here’s a 70′s remix of the Isley Brothers tune “Move Over and Let Me Dance” originally from 1965. Jimi Hendrix is on guitar and in the remix his guitar has been lifted higher in the mix. To me the amazing thing about this song is just how much Jimi took his vocal style from the [...]

Watermelon Slim Manchester Academy 16 July £12 Mojo – Best Blues Album 2007 North American Blues Foundation – Best Blues Album & Best Band Award winners 2008. American blues musician William Watermelon Slim Homans has been performing since the early seventies and has been linked to several notable blues musicians including John Lee Hooker, Robert [...]

Interview with the late great musician Cal Green @ Cozy’s Bar & Grill Sept. 1999. James Gatson and Johnny Turner are featured. Some playing too. It’s quite long at 30 mins but is well worth a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-XDMNKI6Z0

The famous Delmark records from Chicago have a number of DVD releases to complement their excellent records releases over the last 50 plus years of trading. Even better are the samples that you can see on the DVD page. Check them out. http://delmark.com/delmark.bluevid.htm

Beth Rowley, who is on at Maryport between Jon Cleary and Jimmie Vaughan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Tq_NI-Em0

The Ian Siegal Band play the Warrington Blues Club this Friday 30 May 2008. “Awash with wit, lust and distraction…one of the most inventive Blues recordings ever made by a British artist.” MOJO**** “This album is a rare combination of cleverness and craft.” **** (Excellent) PENGUIN BOOK OF BLUES RECORDINGS It has been said that [...]

Here are the Paladins from 22 years ago. They are better known as a rockabilly band but this is certainly a fine blues. Great shuffle on the drums. Watch and learn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic7JYK4FgwQ

NPR (National Public Radio) is about as close as the UNited States get to our fabulous BBC. NPR have a lot of music programming and a browse around their site is very interesting. http://www.npr.org/music/

BIG DEZ “You Can Smile” (Why Note – WHY 016) Without doubt the best blues band in France, this latest release from Big Dez – aka Phil Fernandez, on great guitar and vocals – is a delightful mixed bag of all things blues, with some horn-flavoured soul and greasy jazz, bluesinthenorthwest.com enjoyed very much their [...]

Here’s Arnett Cobb with a little jazzy blues from 1985. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esJjcBApZ_Q

I was lucky enough to see the great James Harman band back in either the late 80s or maybe the early 90s. It was at the Colne festival. Joel Foy was playing in the band at that time. Here’s a clip from that vintage, not in the UK, but at the great blues club J&J’s [...]

Flávio Guimarães and Prado Blues Band. Damn fine! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu8KU3lNIYc

Jimmy McGriff passed today. RIP Jimmy. You enhanced my life. Thanks. I was taught to play the organ as a child; I enjoyed it very much but never really found the music that was close to my soul. The music that was played was all very Klaus Wunderlich and “The Organist Entertains”. Many years later [...]

Saturday May 31st sees the much requested & long awaited return of British guitar legend Robin Trower to The Marine Hall, Fleetwood. Robin Trower came to prominence in the late 60′s when he joined Procul Harum and in 1972 he left to embark on a highly successful solo career. Never content to rest on his [...]