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I had a great time at Worthenbury yesterday.  I enjoyed playing the spot with Down at Antone’s and I enjoyed all the music and the good friends that I met.

There will be a review shared between regular bluesinthenorthwest.com writers Lionel Ross and my partner in crime Grahame Rhodes.  Watch this space for details.

Thanks to all the organisers and the volunteers.  A terrific job.  My sincere thanks.  I didn’t take many pictures for two reasons 1.  I’m not very good and 2.  I’m lazy.  However I did try to capture some pictures that would be a bit different to everyone else’s. 

The sweet collection of Gibsons belong to Jonny Spencer of The Stumble.  Top bloke.

Roll on Worthenbury 2010.

The excellent site Early Blues have published a set of excellent photos from the brilliant Warrington Festival that was held on 23 May.

Check out the link below for the picture sets.  Great work.

http://www.earlyblues.com/Warrington%20R&B%20Festival%202009.htm

Do you remember the festival…..

http://www.bluesinthenorthwest.com/index.php/2009/05/26/review-the-warrington-blues-festival-23-may-2009/

http://www.bluesinthenorthwest.com/index.php/2009/05/27/review-the-warrington-blues-festival-23-may-2009-2/

Shertila has posted some pictures of last week’s Sarah Warren Band gig at Burtonwood Blues Club.

Take a look at Shertila’s photostream for more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12547928@N07/

Ian Williams has kindly provided a few pictures of the Fruteland Jackson gig at Worthenbury Village Hall last Saturday.

For the others, please visit the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive.

Grahame sent me a few of his pictures from Saturday’s Warrington Festival.  I have uploaded them to Flickr and you can see them here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenpeace

My favourite is this one of Colin from the Stumble sneaking a crafty pint from behind the PA stack.  In the background you can see one of  his sweet-toned Matamp stacks.  Over a beer one time I’ll tell you about the time I met the designer of the original Orange and Matamp amplifiers Mat Mathias.

Just a quick word before I pop out this morning for a walk.

What a great day yesterday.  My thanks to Dave Sawyer and all the organisers and sponsors.  Let’s look forward to 2010.  A full review to follow.

Shertila has posted some pictures from last week’s Dani Wilde gig in Burtonwood.

Follow the link for the whole set.

Mark McNulty has posted some nice pictures of this week’s Eric Clapton gig in Liverpool.  Click on Mark’s name to see the rest.

Ian Williams has kindly supplied some pictures from last night’s Kent DuChaine gig at Goin’ Up The Country at Worthenbury Village Hall.

You can see the full set at the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive.

A great set as we have come to expect from this great photographer Paul Webster.

Check ‘em all out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigoax-blues/

Paul Webster has uploaded some Hamilton Loomis pictures up to Flickr.  Of course, Hamilton is also the star at Liverpool Marina this Thursday.  See you there.

Shertila has uploaded his pictures from the great gig last Friday at Burtonwood Blues Club.

You can see the full set over at Flickr.

Also Lionel has sent me a few that are over on my Flickr site.

Shertila has posted some pictures from last Friday’s Paul Lamb gig at Warrington Blues Club - now held at Birchwood Catholic Club.

For the whole set visit Shertila’s Flickr site.

I have just returned from an excellent gig at Overton-on-Dee Village Hall organised by the Worthenbury Blues and Roots guys.  A superb sold out house saw a great show of classic Chicago blues mainly inspired by the songs of Mud’s dad McKinley Morganfield.

More of my pics at the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive.  Review and more pics to follow.  If you spot a YouTube, please post as a comment or contact me with the URL.

I have been a fan of JJ Grey for quite a while ever since Chuck Nevitt tipped me off to the original Cheap Ass Funk of Mofro.  Grey has a great voice and all the Mofro albums are worth a listen.  He has recently done a session for the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour that is available as audio or video.

http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp and look for show 515.

http://www.woodsongs.com/showdetailspage.asp?SN=515

JJ Grey is the show with The Duhks

JJ GREY was born and raised just outside of Jacksonville, Florida. Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern musical storytellers. Like the best of the great Southern writers, he fills his songs with details that are at once vivid and personal, political and universal. JJ and his band Mofro’s brand of front porch soul has steadily built an intensely loyal following since their debut CD in 2001. JJ’s new album Orange Blossoms, released on Alligator Records, takes another giant step forward. JJ will be performing solo acoustic on WoodSongs.

THE DUHKS return the WoodSongs stage to perform songs from their new CD Fast Paced World released on Sugar Hill Records. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the band has been hailed by The New York Times as one of the artists at the forefront of the neo-folk movement. The band’s spot-on fusion of traditional bluegrass, folk rock, Afro-Cuban jazz and soul have earned them a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Country Vocal Performance category as well as a Juno award in their native Canada. Environmental issues are a passion for the band, inspiring them to launch The Duhks Sustainability Project in October 2007.

Here is a photo from last Friday’s Peter Price gig at the Goin’ up the country club held at Worthenbury Village Hall.  Thanks to Ian Williams for the pix.

You can see the full set on the bluesinthenorthwest.com photo archive on Flickr.