DIGITAL BLUES

This week’s show features a small ‘in memoriam’ for Marianne Faithfull who left us at the end of last month plus tracks from two of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month and six other new releases and closes with a wonderful instrumental from JJ Cale. You will hear tracks from Thorbjorn Risager & the Black Tornado, Marianne Faithfull, Ben Tyzack, Andres Roots, Grey DeLisle, Ed Alstrom, Sunny Bl...

This week’s show brings you 13 tracks from new and recent albums, sic of which are not yet released. We continue our globetrotting with artists from 8 countries – all in all a cosmopolitan feast for your aural delectation! Join me for tracks from FreeWorld, Secondhand Dreamcar, Southern Avenue, Beth Hart, Andres Roots, Robert Duijf, Guy Verlinde & Tom Eylenbosch, Richie Lawrence, Blues Engine,...

This week’s show continues in a cosmopolitan vein with tracks from 13 albums, some not even released yet, from around the world. And boy, will the blues purists hate some of them! You will hear tracks from Big Al and the Heavyweights, Tony O'Malley, The Too Bad Jims, Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Le Barda, Vanesa Harbek, Mary Lee and Caesar's Cowboys, Eva Carboni, Nikki O'Neill, Sylvie Lewis...

This week’s show opens with a track marking the birthday in January 1888 of Leadbelly and then has a real European flavour with tracks from 13 more albums, some released last year and some yet to be released, featuring artists from no less than 8 different European countries as well as some from across the pond. You will hear tracks from The Lonnigans with Odetta, Walk That Walk, Ruthless Blues, D...

This week’s edition brings you 14 tracks from some yet to be released albums as well as some that are recent releases. A truly varied and eclectic bunch featuring songs both ancient and modern – it has to be the award-winning Digital Blues! You will hear tracks from The James Oliver Band, Phil Vermont, Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip, Greg Nagy, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Kat Riggins & Her Blues Rev...

This week’s edition brings you 14 tracks from some yet to be released albums as well as some that are recent releases. A truly varied and eclectic bunch featuring songs both ancient and modern – it has to be the award-winning Digital Blues! You will hear tracks from The James Oliver Band, Phil Vermont, Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip, Greg Nagy, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Kat Riggins & Her Blues Rev...

This week’s show brings you 15 more tracks from just some of my favourite albums that arrived at Digital Blues in 2024. You will hear tracks from Southside Denny, The Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience, Rick Vito, Mississippi MacDonald, Freddy Miller, Justine Blue, KA & The Blue Devils, Cecilya and The Candy Kings, C.W. Ayon, Cedar County Cobras, Christopher Wyze & The Tellers, Michael Messer &a...

As is my wont at this time of year, I play tracks from 14 of my favourite albums that arrived in 2024. You will hear tracks from Mark Easton, Muddy Gurdy, Sue Decker, Bywater Call, Kaz Hawkins, Katerina Pejak, Sue Foley, Dom Martin, Eric Bibb, Mark Harrison Band, The Cinelli Brothers, Errol Linton, The Too Bad Jims and Jochen Volpert. Artist Track Source Label Mark Easton Smokestack Lightning Noth...

ITS CHRISTMAS!!!! For the penultimate edition of Digital Blues for 2024, it is time for our renowned and reviled Christmas Special! Yes, fifty-eight minutes of festive frolics and fun with no less than 16 seasonal tracks from Europe and across the Atlantic. Whether you are wrapping, stuffing, carolling, travelling, shopping or just recovering, tune in for your yuletide yomp! You will hear tracks f...

With Christmas rapidly approaching, I have resisted the temptation and can guarantee this week's edition is seasonal music free! But I have got 13 great tracks crammed into this week’s offering including tracks from all three of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month and a load of other new releases! Tune in to hear tracks from Ruthless Blues, Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip, Phil Vermont (feat. Nei...

With Christmas rapidly approaching, I have resisted the temptation and can guarantee this week's edition is seasonal music free! But I have got 13 great tracks crammed into this week’s offering including tracks from all three of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month and a load of other new releases! Tune in to hear tracks from Ruthless Blues, Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip, Phil Vermont (feat. Nei...

No less than 14 tracks crammed into this week’s edition including tracks from all three of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month! Tune in to hear tracks The Too Bad Jims, The Hitman Blues Band, FreeWorld, The Dennis Spencer Group with Bobby Warren, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Walk That Walk, Mick Pini, Leavin' Trunk, Kiko and the Blues Refugees, The James Oliver Band, Dom Martin, Nothing In Rambling, Vero...

As we begin the final month of 2024, an as ever eclectic selection of tracks from new and recent releases including all three of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month. Tune in to hear tracks from Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip, Leavin' Trunk, The Terraplanes Blues Band, The Hitman Blues Band, Dom Martin, Sister Suzie & the Right Band, Eva Carboni, Beth Hart, Kat Riggins & Her Blues Revival...

After a disastrous week of digital blues, this week’s edition of Digital Blues brings you 13 very varied tracks from no less than seven countries on three continents including two of the IBBA’s Picks of the Month and one from Digital Blues’ Album of the Month. Tune in to hear tracks from The BluesBones, Nothing In Rambling, Mississippi MacDonald, Eric Bibb, Amaury Faivre, Leyla McCalla, Rhiannon G...

This week’s edition has tracks from one Digital Blues’ album of the month, two IBBA Picks of the Month, three live albums, four wonderful ladies of the blues and five other new or recent albums! Its OK, no partridges in a pear tree! Yet! Tune in to hear tracks from Dennis Herrera, The BluesBones, Jimmy Regal and The Royals, King Bee & the Stingers, Beth Hart, Vanessa Collier, Eva Carboni, Kat...

When this show first aired, the UK was commemorating with Remembrance Sunday and the 11th November was Armistice Day in Europe and Veterans Day in the USA so I open with seven tracks marking this. Tune in to hear tracks from Motorhead, Larry Miller, Larry Garner, Liz Mandeville, Ian Siegal, Eric Bibb, Shakin Stevens, Kaz Hawkins, Sister Susie and The Right Band, Bobby Hurricane Spencer and Jeff Da...

This week a distinctly European flavour with 11 tracks from new and recent releases featuring artists from 6 European countries plus four tracks from ladies from across the pond! Tune in to hear tracks from The James Oliver Band, Little Steve & the Big Beat, The BluesBones, Winter Blues Band, Phil Vermont, Kiko and the Blues Refugees, Shemekia Copeland, Beth Hart, Vanessa Collier, Amanda Fish...

This week a bit of self-indulgence – OK even more than usual! I open with a track from Robert Hokum (Bob Salmons) who left us on 17th October 2024 and then it is eclecticism in extremis with some great piano players, some ‘Jamaican blues’, some new & recent releases, a track featuring music from Mali, where will it all stop? Tune in to hear tracks from The Guv'nors, Bruce Katz Band, Anthony Ge...

This week 12 tracks from new or very recent releases from right across the blues spectrum assuring an eclectic mix the like of which you will be hard pressed to find elsewhere! Tune in to hear tracks from Armellino, King Bee & the Stingers, Jimmy Regal and The Royals, The Tas Cru Band, Eric Bibb, Amaury Faivre, Gary Nicholson, Benny Turner, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Blues People, Javin Webb and Joc...

R.I.P. Matthew Long. This week a selection of tracks from 10 new or very recent releases as well as a very special tracks from Catfish in memory of Matt Long, guitarist and singer, who lost his battle with cancer on 6th October 2024. Tune in to hear tracks from Southside Denny, Little Steve & the Big Beat, Mitch Woods, Khalif Wailin' Walter, Shemekia Copeland, Vaneese Thomas, Misty Blues, Kell...

This week another bounty comprising 11 tracks from new or very recent releases and, as ever, the emphasis is on an eclectic variety! Tune in to hear tracks from Layla Zoe, Bruce Katz Band, Stefan Hillesheim Band, Jochen Volpert Carola Thieme, Muddy Gurdy, The Bad Week, Gary Nicholson, Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra, Chris Daniels and the Kings with Freddi Gowdy, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Jimmy C...

This week it’s a women in blues special to mark those wonderful ladies who give us such gloious music. I bring you 12 tracks featuring the ladies, mostly from new or recent releases and, as ever, variety is the watch word! Tune in to hear Larkin Poe, The Imagine If, Bywater Call, Shakura S'Aida, Katarina Pejak, Shemekia Copeland, Emma Wilson, Cecilya and The Candy Kings, Better Days, KA & The...

This week I bring you 14 tracks from new releases and some which are yet to be released. As ever we cross the spectrum of the blues and I include a track from one of my Albums of the month. Tune in to hear Thorbjørn Risager and The Black Tornado, Leavin' Trunk, Blues People, Southside Denny, The Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience, Shemekia Copeland, Vaneese Thomas, Kelly's Lot, Mark Harrison Band, Gary...

This week I bring you another track from one of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month and from both of the Digital Blues’ Albums of the Month plus eleven more from some new arrivals right across the blues spectrum. Tune in to hear Southern Avenue, The Tas Cru Band, Muddy Gurdy, Heather Pierson, The Imagine If, Anthony Geraci, Mick Kolassa, Dave Ferra, Amaury Faivre, Sean Taylor, Mark Harrison Band,...

This week I bring you another track from one of this month’s IBBA Picks of the Month and from both of the Digital Blues’ Albums of the Month plus eleven more from some new arrivals right across the blues spectrum. Tune in to hear Muddy Gurdy, Mississippi MacDonald, Dave Werewolf, The Commoners, Misty Blues, Kelly's Lot, Jennifer Lyn & the Groove Revival, Kaz Hawkins, Dave Ferra, Mark Harrison...