DIGITAL BLUES

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features 14 more tracks from new or recent arrivals featuring an eclectic mix of artists or bands from five different countries! Tune in for tracks from Jon Cleary, Janiva Magness, Mississippi Shakedown, Kaspar 'Berry' Rapkin & the Swampdogs, Mademoiselle C, The Name Droppers, Pierre Lacoque's Mississippi Heat, The Shaelyn Band, Tedeschi T...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features 13 very varied tracks from new or recent(ish) arrivals offering a mix for which the word eclectic was coined! Tune in for tracks from Seth James, John Primer and Friends, Bob Corritore and Friends feat Johnny Rawls, Mick Kolassa, Lil' Red & the Rooster, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Carl Carlton & Melanie Wiegman with Keb' Mo', Zac Harm...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features 14 more tracks from new or recent arrivals heavily featuring the ladies and offering an eclectic mix as ever! Tune in for tracks from Boogie Beasts feat Kenny Brown, Lexie Blue, The Shaelyn Band, Jennifer Lyn & the Groove Revival, Christina Crofts, Dana Fuchs, Anni Piper, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dave Thomas, Guy Verlinde, Thomas Hep...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features 14 more tracks from new or recent arrivals and what an eclectic bunch they are! Tune in for tracks from Nicky T and the Snake Charmers, GA20 with Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Easton, Eliza Neals, Krissy Matthews & the Vikings feat Tommy Castro & Stina Stenerud, Mich and the Blues Bastards, The Scott O'Neal Band, Billy Thompson, V...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features 14 tracks all connected, some loosely, with the European Union and demonstrating what cracking music is emanating from Europe. Tune in for tracks from Boogie Beasts feat. Duwayne Burnside, Big Dave & the Dutchmen, Ghalia Volt, The Dibs, Robbert Duijf, Mary Stokes Band, Hubert Dorigatti with Greg Zlap, Guy Verlinde, Steven Troch Ba...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features 11 tracks, 10 of which are from bands/artists who were winers at the recent 2026 Blues Music Awards staged in Memphis earlier this month. Tune in for tracks from Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Buddy Guy, D K Harrell, Doug Macleod, John Primer, Johnny Rawls, J.T. Lauritsen & the Buckshot Hunters with Frien...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues again sees us traveling far and wide with tracks from Australia, Austria, Finland, the UK & the USA. Around the world in 58 minutes! Join me and Mark Easton, Eddie 9 Volt, Matthew Curry, The CD Woodbury Trio, Bobby Charles, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Christina Crofts, The Badrock Blues Band, Zac Harmon & the Drive, Reverend Freakchild, Pontch...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues is crammed with musical gorgeousness including a number of albums which could well end up on my list of favourites for 2026! Join me and 13 bands/artists for a musical moment (58 of them in fact) - Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, GA 20 with Charlie Musselwhite, McKnight & Bogdal, Anders Damås & The Acres Of Corn, Bison Hip, JP Soars...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues opens with a track from the wonderful and much missed Earl Green who died on 6th May 2020. We then go on another musical road trip visiting sees us visiting Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Norway, the UK & the USA. Join me and my guests Earl Green, Long John McDonald, The Badrock Blues Band, Krissy Matthews & the Vikings...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues sees us visiting Belgium, France, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the UK & the USA in yet another musical road trip concluding with a track in memory of Duane Eddy who died on 30th April 2024. Join me and my guests 2026 European Blues Challenge winner Adama Janlo, Lena & the Slide Brothers, The Dibs, The Royal Enfield Band, The Greig Taylor B...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features mainly the ladies with a great mix of 15 tracks from new and recent releases including, courtesy of France Blues, 5 blues ladies from France. Oh la la! Join me and my guests Mark Easton, Crystal Shawanda, Lexie Blue, Frenchie Moe, Eliza Neals, Anna Boulic, Alyssa Galvan, Ady – One Woman Band, Two Roots, Secret Garden & The Dusty M...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues goes really international with a great mix of 15 tracks from new and recent releases from no less than 8 different countries! I have new singles from Joanne Shaw Taylor, Lightning Threads, Marco Bartoccioni, The Roebucks, Diving Ducks, Bluesnado and Sunjay plus tracks from new or recent albums by Lowdown Dirty Mojos, Vinyl Paradise, Amani Burn...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues features a great mix of 14 tracks from new and recent releases including some absolute crackers! I have new singles from Marc Broussard feat Josh Smith, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Kirk Fletcher & Erika Baier and Jeff Washington plus tacks from new albums by Mick Kolassa, Duke Robillard and his All Star Band, Lil' Ed and the Blues I...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues is as eclectic a collection of 14 tracks as you’ll find, some new and some not! I have the brand new single taken from Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band’s forthcoming album, a stunning track from Chris Rea, tracks from JJ Cale and Eric Clapton, three tracks from a new compilation – Blues au Feminin – from France Blues - Lee O'Nell, Jessie...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues has a heavily European flavour with cuts from the UK, France, Belgium and Finland as well as Brazil and the USA featuring tracks from Thomas Heppell, Unna with Helge Tallqvist Band, Slim Butler, Erja Lyytinen, Omar Coleman & Igor Prado, Ryan Hartt, Charlie Barath, The Dibs, Big Dave & the Dutchmen, Stef Paglia, Neal Black & the Hea...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues is dedicated to the memory of Mike Vernon, a legendary figure on the UK music scene for so many years who left us on 2nd March 2026. To mark his passing I have five tracks which bear his mark and 9 more from new and recent arrivals. The playlist for this edition has tracks from Mike Vernon y Los Garcia, John Mayall, Duster Bennett, Dani Wilde,...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues first aired on Sunday 8th March 2026 which was also International Women’s Day. To mark this all 12 tracks in this week’s show feature the ladies with Bywater Call, Ally Venable, Beth Hart feat Eric Gales, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Cecilya & The Candy Kings, Roomful of Blues, Sister Lucille, La Bedoune, Elise Frank, Kaz Hawkins, Ca...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues brings you 14 tracks from new arrivals from Europe and North America with tracks from PD Martin, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Marco Bartoccioni, Stefan Hillsheim Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Unna & Helge Tallqvist Band, Guy Verlinde, Charlie Barath, Duke Robillard and his All Star Band, Crystal Shawanda, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tr...

PHOTO BY NICKI VINALL This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues brings you a small musical tribute to Victor Brox who left us two years ago as well as a more than usually eclectic mix bringing you 15 varied tracks, some newish, some not, and many of which will really get the blues police going! Just under an hour of music from Bobby Charles, Victor Brox Blues Train, Elise Frank, Kyla...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues brings you 15 varied tracks from Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, the UK and the USA with music from Mississipi Shakedown, Neal Black & the Healers, The Blues Kid Combo feat Neal Black, Laurent Moitrot, Ryan Hartt, Kim Wilson, Father 'n' Son, Six Strings and A Pulse, Frenchie Mo, The James Hunter Six, Eric Bibb, Loïs Morgan, Thomas Heppe...

This week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues continues in the international theme as I bring you another 14 very varied tracks from around the world with music from Grammy Award winner, Buddy Guy and Blues Corner, Omar Coleman & Igor Prado, Billy Thompson, Ma Polaine's Great Decline, Stef Paglia, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps, Tinsley Ellis, Rory Block, Eric Bibb, Kim Wilson,...

In this week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues, a real international feel as I bring you 14 very varied tracks from around the world with music from Koko-Jean & The Tonics, Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers, Ally Venable featuring Shemekia Copeland, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Bobby Charles, The James Hunter Six, Mark Cameron, The Blues Kid Combo feat Arnaud Fradin, Loïs Morgan, Laurent...

In this week’s edition of the award-winning show, 13 very eclectic tracks as I play music from Stef Paglia, Kim Wilson, The Fabulous Thunderbirds x 2, Rory Block w/ Ronnie Earl, Tinsley Ellis, Sam Lewis, Robert Top Thomas, Steve Howell & Fats Kaplin, Elise Frank, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps, Eddie Kold Band feat Larry 'Doc' Watkins and Erja Lyytinen. Artist Track Source Label Stef Pag...

In this week’s edition of the award-winning Digital Blues, 14 greatly varied tracks from new and recent arrivals from France, Spain, the UK & the USA demonstrating that the Blues is not just an American music form. Tune in for music from The Blues Kid Combo, Altered Five Blues Band, Mark Cameron, Koko-Jean & The Tonics, Mike Bourne Band, Greg Nagy, Lil’ Magic Sam, Bobby Charles, Roomful of...

In this week’s show I play musical tributes to Chris Rea and Andy ‘Zsa Zsa’ Billups with various tracks from Chris and one from The Hamsters. Plus, I have great tracks from some new and recent releases. All in all, one heck of a show even though I say it myself! Tune in for music from Chris Rea, The Hamsters, Kim Wilson, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughan, Loïs Morgan, Eddie Kold Band feat...