Swampcandy is a primitive blues influenced American duo from Annapolis, MD. The music they play is the dirty old Mississippi blues kind. Ruben Dobbs’ aggressive finger-picking and rhythmic style (which often adds up to sounding like more than one guitar), combined with Joey Mitchell’s bass playing, pounding kick drum and percussive bass throttling (representing the presence of […]

The first Overton-on-Dee Blues, Roots & Real Ale Festival, which took place over last weekend, was a resounding success and indeed, the Saturday was a complete sell-out – and as always Pete Evans, Paul Taylor and Ian Williams had put together an excellent varied bill – ranging from pre-war acoustic blues to the music of […]