ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW Pacific Road Arts Centre, Birkenhead: 28.11.09 After witnessing Andy Fairweather Low’s superb show at the same venue last year, the promoters couldn’t have chosen a better performer to close the 21st International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, as the genial Welshmen and his fine band, The Low Riders, attracted a sell-out crowd [...]

10 Releases and Counting: Broke & Hungry Records Celebrates Four Years Of Raucous Delta Blues (ST. LOUIS) – In October 2005, blues fan Jeff Konkel sat in a juke joint in rural Mississippi, lamenting the fact that so many of the region’s most compelling blues artists were unknown outside of the Delta. Over the course [...]

Not a bad band, I wonder if that T-Bone fellow on the guitar ever made it big  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npaEEDF4pVA

The Gary Fletcher Band Saturday 12 December 2009 8:30 pm Rodewald Suite, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Fletcher is best known as the bass player with the famous The Blues Band and has only recently been performing live with his new band. He delivers spot on vocals and moving acoustic guitar performances that have been described as [...]

I don’t believe the title but a nice clip anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbiYZYsBipQ

Ian Siegal – Blues Album of the Year.

Alexanders Jazz Cafe Monday 7 December Last Train Band Riotous riffs, thunderous drums, foot stomping rhythms and searing vocals all go into the mix which put Last Train Band at the leading edge of contemporary live Blues Rock. An unforgettable night! “TRAIN BAND IS REMARKABLE…MUSICALLY AND VOCALLY. GREAT GUITAR RIFFS…THIS BAND IS COMPLETELY TIGHT” £3

This is not a YouTube clip but a 45 min concert clip on Vimeo.  Follow the link for the full size. http://vimeo.com/7498843 Walter Wolfman Washington Heats The Hague 1988 from Maarten Toner on Vimeo. Back in 1988 the North Sea Jazz festival organized a club tour the week before the festival started. One of the [...]

Lucy Zirins Gerry Cooper The Media The Cellar Club, Aigburth Peoples Hall, Liverpool L17 0DG www.myspace.com/eggycellarclub

The great Gospel evangelist from Louisiana on his only visit outside the USA. Backed by veteran Chicago vocal group The El Dorados and Big Joe Louis And His Blues Kings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFUhglYDSMs

While tinkering with the system to resolve email problems I made  a few additions to the site.  At the bottom of each post there is now a button to allow you to share or save a post to some of the most popular social networking sites like twitter and facebook. You may also be able [...]

Whoop de bloody doooo! After a right old battle the problems are solved.  The bluesinthenorthwest.com site was not sending out emails – SINCE SEPTEMBER.  This was delaying me approving some comments and new users who wanted to post comments were not being able to register. Anyway we are now back to business as usual and [...]

Illness forces the sale of Joe Bonamassa tickets for Sat night.  See below. Location is Llandudno.  The tickets are £22.50 each, and doors are open at the Cymru Arena at 7.00 pm. Any buyers could contact me on e-mail (rogerwebster@blueyonder.co.uk) or phone (0151-734-4915).

There’s a great article on Watermelon Slim in Oregon Quartely. http://www.oregonquarterly.com/winter2009/feature2.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgvKnjCXMjE See below for details of the liv streaming gig from Clarksdale Lucious Spiller and his All-Star Blues Band return to Ground Zero Blues Club on Saturday, November 28th. Lucious’ recent performances at the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival and Cat-Head Mini Festival have resulted in critical acclaim for this talented Arkansas bluesman. Lucious hails [...]

Liverpool Acoustic Blues Lounge View Two Gallery, Mathew Street Friday, December 4th Merseyside’s great singer/songwriter Dean Johnson is the special guest at the Liverpool Acoustic Blues Lounge at View Two Gallery, Mathew Street, on Friday, December 4th. Dean can usually be seen on nationwide tours opening for the likes of Paul Carrack, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm [...]