As well as producing an excellent weekly blues podcast Dave Raven also maintains an archive of live sessions.  Some of them are available as video as well as as audio. http://www.daveraven.co.uk/rnb/ Recent video sessions include Olly Brown and Cherry Lee Mewis

Stockport’s award winning Roots & Fusion show (winner of Pure Radio’s “Best New Programme 2009″) was host to the amazing talent of Lucy Zirins recently. A podcast of the session is available at www.pureradio.org.uk. Click on the podcast link on the right hand side of the front page and scroll down the list of shows [...]

Roots & Fusion, Stockport Pure 107.8FM. The Harpbreakers did an interview and a couple of live songs in the studio. This is now available to download / listen to as a podcast on www.pureradio.org.uk (front page on the right is link to podcasts – use Harpbreakers tag). Roots & Fusion is still going out every [...]

Dave Raven’s  – Raven ‘n’ Blues Scratch My Back    Junior Wells    Live At Theresa’s Scratch My Back    Tony Joe White    Koraki Live Got Love If You Want It    Slim Harpo    The Roots Of Jimi Hendrix Love Me Baby Blues    Kelly Joe Phelps    Lead Me On Johnny Davey’s Blues    The Cedars    Little Copper Still Black, Brown [...]

Dave Raven has just uploaded the live session of Paul Jones and Dave Kelly recorded on the houseboat in the Thames for the Raven ‘n’ Blues podcast. http://raven.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=521435#

Both Dave Raven and Hambone have podcasts out recently and both of them feature a tribute to the recently deceased Koko Taylor. Raven ‘n’ Blues Strange Woman    Carey & Lurrie Bell    Harpslinger Smoke Stack    Valvetones    mp3 Dirty Mother For You    Memphis Minnie    Divas Sing The Blues Wang Dang Doodle    Koko Taylor    Blues Masterpieces Evil    Koko [...]

The great DJ and podcaster Dave Raven this week features Hans Theessink in session live from the houseboat on the Thames. Here’s the link to the Theessink special. http://raven.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=473594 and here’s the link where you can listen or download all shows…. http://raven.libsyn.com/ or just add http://raven.libsyn.com/rss to your favourite newsreader or into iTunes

The Hambone’s Blues Rumshack Podcast is back. http://www.therumshack.com You can listen online at the website above or you can subscribe in you favourite Podcast application e.g iTunes using the following URL http://rumshack.libsyn.com/rss In iTunes click Advanced – Subscribe to podcast and enter the URL above. This week’s playlist features amongst others this years IBC Grammy [...]

Last week’s Raven ‘n’ Blues podcast featured an interview and live performance by the fabulous Ian Siegal. As ever with Dave Raven’s shows, he records an inteview of about 45-60 mins then edits a 20min portion into the final show.  Both files are always available for download or listening online. You can hear he whole [...]

I first heard of Blind Pig records when I bought my first Walter Horton CD.  Here’s a good short article about the history of Bling Pig Records followed by a BluePower podcast. BluePower.Com: Blind Pig Celebrates 30th Anniversary!

The excellent podcast Raven ‘n’ Blues this week features a live session with Doug MacLeod. Like with many other of his guests, Dave Raven has uploaded the whole conversation that he had with Doug. A subset of the session will be part of the regular radio show at the weekend. So here’s what you should [...]

Last week’s Raven and the Blues podcast started with a bouncy, retro, shuffly little tune from a band that I had not heard of before. The Lazy Jumpers from Spain (I’m not exactly sure where – I remember it was the lovely East coast). Lo and behold they are over here on tour – if [...]

The Shetland podcaster has started up again for 2007. His first show of the year…. Featuring tracks from Kevin Borich, The Hiptones, Baudelaire Brothers, Jim Byrnes, JW-Jones Blues Band, Mel Brown, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley and kicking off the show a little known American band. You can download from here.

This week’s Raven ‘n’ Blues broadcast and podcast featured Derrin Nauendorf. The way that Dave Raven organises his shows is that he records about an hour of chat and music of his featured guest then edits this down to about 15 mins in the final show. You can download the hour long Derrin Nauendorf interview [...]

The playlist for the latest Bandana Blues podcast – Show 171 – looks very harp orientated this week, especially Spinner’s Section. I haven’t downloaded it yet but the show kicks off with the super hot, dynamite and rocking Jason Ricci and New Blood – the guy who is taking the harmonica community by storm. In [...]

There is an excellent interview and live songs from Dave Kelly on the excellent Podcast Raven’n’Blues. Dave joined Dave on the top deck of the houseboat in the Thames for about an hour of conversation and live acoustic songs. The session will be edited down to a shorter segment in the main show that will [...]