Elmore James Archives – Just Listen To This

Using an album title suggested by Marie Trout, wife of Walter through some grim times and now this more pastoral and pleasingly creative period, this release gives fans something different.

Billy F. Gibbons – Big Bad Blues

by Pete Sargeant | Sep 22, 2018

When recently having the pleasure of reviewing a box set of the second five ZZ Top albums, I was reminded of their organic assimilation of the finest elements of The Blues. The band is able to approach rock and blues music from any direction and pull it off, such is their musical skill and ability to invent but stay melodic.

ZZ Top – Cinco No.2 The Second Five LPs (Vinyl)

by Pete Sargeant | Jun 18, 2018

Here is the second box of vinyl treasures from the hard-rockin’ trio. A great way to own five proper classic albums, each of which rings the changes and entertains. The records are also an educational exercise for anyone learning guitar bass or drums.

Various Artists Strange Angels – In Flight With Elmore James

by Pete Sargeant | Mar 1, 2018

When Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac formed and started gigging, they were one of the first acts that my pals and I regularly saw play. In my recent chat with Mick Fleetwood (searchable on this site) we speak in depth about those days.

Mick Fleetwood – A Mac Book – at last!

by Pete Sargeant | Oct 23, 2017

Working with boutique publishers Genesis, a book project has now been completed, delivering a truly delicious and brilliantly-illustrated tome on the early days of Fleetwood Mac and named Love That Burns.

Black Stone Cherry – Cherry Picking The Blues

by Pete Sargeant | Oct 21, 2017

The band’s lead singer and guitarist Chris Robertson speaks with our Pete about the group’s high energy six-track EP of classic blues numbers…

Black Stone Cherry – Black To Blues EP

by Pete Sargeant | Oct 15, 2017

As anyone who has seen Black Stone Cherry perform will know, these Kentucky lads are never far from the Blues. The clues are the way they play off each other, the use of dynamics, the occasional slide guitar but moreover the raspy vocal stylings of Chris Robertson.

James Montgomery – Drawing On An Icon

by Pete Sargeant | Aug 19, 2017

Harpist and singer James leads The James Montgomery Blues Band and he and Pete share the same main inspirational player from their earliest days – Mr Paul Butterfield. However the latest album on Cleopatra Records blues imprint shows that the band has no fear of stepping forward from the Chicago master’s style to channel their own ideas…

Walter Trout – We’re All In This Together

by Pete Sargeant | Jul 26, 2017

Dear Walter, the great survivor, has helped a ton of artists in his time. I think from talking to him a couple of times – around the time when we were both dodging The Reaper – that to give is the best thing a human can do.

George Thorogood – Party Of One

by Pete Sargeant | Jul 25, 2017

My abiding memory of this is entertaining artist is being backstage at the Shepherds Bush Empire trying to interview the opening act Big Head Todd & The Monsters, with a gruff voice coming through the cracked door intoning “ We owe it all to George Thorogood ! He is The Man !”…

Paul Dougherty – Keep It In Your Pocket

by Pete Sargeant | Feb 2, 2017

This is the chap that made the effective roots-bluesy album River Pearl, originally from Houston and growing up in Nashville in a musical family

Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun

by Pete Sargeant | Oct 1, 2016

It’s New Year’s Eve at the end of the year 1969 and Jimi is in New York. I had seen the Jimi Hendrix Experience a little while before at London’s Royal Festival Hall playing ‘Catfish Blues’ on a Flying V and ‘Burning Of The Midnight Lamp’ but this pair of nights would find Hendrix with a different power trio and new material AND doing two sets each evening.

Tag: Elmore James

Walter Trout – Survivor Blues

Billy F. Gibbons – Big Bad Blues

ZZ Top – Cinco No.2 The Second Five LPs (Vinyl)

Various Artists Strange Angels – In Flight With Elmore James

Mick Fleetwood – A Mac Book – at last!

Black Stone Cherry – Cherry Picking The Blues

Walter Trout – Survivor Blues

Billy F. Gibbons – Big Bad Blues

ZZ Top – Cinco No.2 The Second Five LPs (Vinyl)

Various Artists Strange Angels – In Flight With Elmore James

Mick Fleetwood – A Mac Book – at last!

Black Stone Cherry – Cherry Picking The Blues

Black Stone Cherry – Black To Blues EP

James Montgomery – Drawing On An Icon

Walter Trout – We’re All In This Together

George Thorogood – Party Of One

Paul Dougherty – Keep It In Your Pocket

Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun

Sandi Thom – Onward Journey

SIMO – A Cloud of Psych-Blues Rolls in From The South

SIMO – Let Love Show The Way

Erja Lyytinen – 20 Questions

Russ ‘Hitman’ Alexander – 20 Questions

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