The Funky Blues Show

My selection of the best US Blues releases of 2020, with lots of new and emerging artists, and a few legends, featuring King Solomon Hicks (pictured), Annika Chambers, Junior Watson, Joh Lee Hooker Jr, Jimmy Johnson and Tad Robinson

A greatest hits show featuring the best tune fron each of my last 25 shows, featuring Albert King (pictured), Deitra Farr, OV Wright, Kyla Brox and Kevin Burt

A special show, the 100th Funky Blues broadcast, introducing a Hall of Fame of my favourite artists, modern and classic, featuring some Kings and Queens, including Johnny Guitar Watson (pictured) and many more great surprises

The latest Southern Soul releases along with a few classics, featuring Bigg Robb, Omar Cunningham, Jeter Jones, Sheba Potts-Wright, Tyrone Davis, Tucka and many more

The best of the prolific UK Jazz scene, with talented emerging artists fusing Jazz with African music, Grime, Dub, Ambient, Punk and much more, featuring KOKORKO (pictured), Ezra Collective, Snazzback, Nubya Garcia, Ruby Rushton and Emma-Jean Thackray

A selection of nominees for the Blues Grammy awards in 2020, plus a trip down memory lane to some nominees from the early 1980's, featuring Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Bobby Rush, Johnny Otis, Bobby Bland and Delbert McClinton (pictured)

A celebration of the Jazz and Blues tradition of one of the great musical cities of the USA, with music from Albert King, Roosevelt Sykes (pictured), Chuck Berry, Clark Terry, Donny Hathaway and many more, including seven different versions, by some of the greats, of a classic Jazz tune

A selection of music from some of the great Blues artists from the Chicago music scene, with some funky and more traditional Windy City styles, featuring Deitra Farr (pictured), Maxwell Mojo Band, Billy Flynn, Larry McCray, Mississippi Heat and Steve Freund

A celebration of the amazing music of Kansas City, from the great Jazz era of the 30's to the 50's, to the thriving modern live music scene, with Jazz, Blues, Funk, Folk and Bluegrass, featuring Jay McShann, Count Basie (pictured), Madisen Bear, Billy Ebeling, Little Hatch and Mary Lou Williams

Celebrating the best new blues and roots artists from the USA, featuring nominees for the Independent Blues Awards from the Making a Scene website, with music from JP Soars, Jason Ricci (pictured), Spencer Mackenzie, Damon Fowler and Cary Morin

The best of the amazing Go-Go scene from Washinton DC in the 1980's, some of the funkiest sounds ever recorded, with Electro, Hip-Hop, percission and 80's synth funk sounds, with music from Chuck Brown (pictured), Trouble Funk, E.U. and many more

My tribute to the best of the amazing piano blues sound, featuring the greats including Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins (pictured), Sunnyland Slim and Champion Jack Dupree, along with modern artists including Victor Wainwright

A selection of modern Blues and Soul featuring artists who have followed my show on Twitter, including Sugaray Rayford (pictured), Alvin Hall, Steve Hunter, Russ Green and Lou Battle.

The best of Mississippi Blues, featuring some of the rising stars, along with legends of the live music scene and a few classic blues tunes from the greats, featuring Anthony Big A Sherrod (pictured), Big George Brock, Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, Mississippi John Hurt, RL Burnside, Cedric Burnside and Mr Sipp

Intense modern funk, from the UK to the West Coast, inspired by 80's synth funk and 90's G-Funk, featuring Enois Scroggins (pictured), Pbug, Zapp, Incognito, Dogg World, Haggis Horns, Phat Phunktion and many more

My selection of amazing Texas sounds, with guitar boogie and funky blues sounds from the music scene in Dallas, Houston and beyond, with a few Texas guitar legends thrown in, with music from EJ Matthews, Guitar Shorty, Charlie Crockett, Fabulous Thunderbirds and ZZ Top

The latest releases from the UK Blues scene, with a host of new and upcoming talent, with soulful and funky styles alongside traditional rockin' blues, including Kyla Brox (pictured), Connor Selby, Greg Coulson, Wily Bo walker and Andy Knight and the Remedy

The best Southern Soul and Soul/Blues tracks from 2018/9 , featuring some sizzling beats and amazing voices from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas including Jeter Jones (pictured), Pokey Bear, Sir Charles Jones, Crystal Thomas and Theodis Ealey

A selection of Latin-influenced Blues, Soul, Funk and Southern Rock from Spain, Italy and France, featuring Freedonia, Ronnie Jones, Tonky Blues Band, Vargas Blues Band (pictured), Mike Sponza and Awek, and many more

My selection of the best music from nominees for the 2019 Blues Foundation awards, featuring Kirk Fletcher (pictured), Kevin Burt, Sugaray Rayford, Ronnie Earl, Billy F Gibbons and Annika Chambers

The best of the northern European Blues scene, featuring some great funky sounds from Wentus Blues Band, The Blues Overdrive (pictured), Patrick Jansson Band, Jake Green Band and Thorbjorn Risager

A selection of the best worldwide Funk tunes from 2018, including funky jazz, afro and latin beats, disco, and 80s electro sounds, with music from Vaudou Game (pictured), Javi Frias, Mestizo Beat, Discotron and Brownout

A celebration of Chicago Blues, with its amazing live music scene, featuring Chicago legends and up and coming artists including Billy Boy Arnold, Linsey Alexander, Vince Agwada, The Congregation and Nora Jean Bruso

A selection of tracks from artists who follow my Twitter feed, rewarding up and coming artists as well as some undervalued legends, a mixture of soulful, funky and rockin' Blues, featuring Frank Bey, Beautiful Bobby Blackmon, Mudlow, GH Jack and Roy Roberts

The best of stateside blues from 2018 with nominees from the Blues Blast magazine awards, including Victor Wainwright(pictured), Wee Willie Walker, Ivy Ford, Chris Cain and Bettye Lavette