Nina Simone Archives – Just Listen To This

Santana – Africa Speaks

Posted by Pete Sargeant | Aug 7, 2019 | Reviews | 0

Jamie Cullum – Taller (Deluxe Edition)

Posted by Pete Sargeant | Jun 15, 2019 | Reviews | 0

TAMI – My Blues Top Ten

Posted by Pete Sargeant | Feb 2, 2019 | Reviews | 0

The Zombies On The Band And The Blues (Part Two)

Posted by Pete Sargeant | Dec 31, 2018 | Interviews | 0

Geraint Watkins – Keys To The Highway

Posted by Pete Sargeant | Nov 27, 2018 | Interviews | 0

Maggie Bell

Posted by Pete Sargeant | Aug 24, 2018 | Interviews | 0

Back with a new album, helmed by producer Rick Rubin, Carlos Santana is keen to remove the scourge of over-synthesised muzak that all sounds the same and takes inspiration from the sounds of Africa..whilst not neglecting the Latin- blues-rock-salsa elements that brought him eternal success.

Jamie Cullum – Taller (Deluxe Edition)

by Pete Sargeant | Jun 15, 2019

It’s been a long old wait for Cullum fans – including Sargeant Jnr – but at last a new album is here. The vocal element is expanded and judiciously used but the instrumental fire seems undiminished.

TAMI – My Blues Top Ten

by Pete Sargeant | Feb 2, 2019

The American blues-soul vocalist selects the classic songs that turned her on to the music she loves and performs, in conversation with Pete Sargeant…

The Zombies On The Band And The Blues (Part Two)

by Pete Sargeant | Dec 31, 2018

Pete meets up with keyboard ace and composer Rod Argent for a general chat and the latter’s five Blues Choices to make up the group’s ten. Over tea and cakes, Rod’s love of music is ever more evident…

Geraint Watkins – Keys To The Highway

by Pete Sargeant | Nov 27, 2018

Whether on acoustic piano, electric piano or Hammond, you could not pick a more adept keyboard colleague than Geraint. Here, Pete Sargeant pitches some questions to Watkins as two of his solo albums are at last rereleased…

Maggie Bell

by Pete Sargeant | Aug 24, 2018

It was a pleasure to chat in detail with Scottish vocal stylist Maggie Bell at an eaterie in downtown Fulham…she is lively, friendly and full of great stories. Having shared the stage a few times with Maggie and guitar ace Dave Kelly, I can vouch for her musical fluency and sense of fun..and man, that voice…

Ladies Of The Blues, March 2018, Under The Bridge, Stamford Bridge, London, United Kingdom

by Pete Sargeant | Apr 18, 2018

This was the place to be in London tonight, for fans of blues and roots music. Mostly the audience heard men playing BUT each of the three acts was of course fronted by a female artist with something to say and the voice and chops to deliver it.

Sheryl Crow – Be Myself

by Pete Sargeant | May 4, 2017

An artist who never strays far from rock and roots music and selects musical cohorts who will act as catalyst figures in arranging and recording. And that’s not as a cold business decision – or she would have Chris Martin or Sheeran in – but a brave challenge to herself to take chances and keep things fresh.

Beth Hart, November 2016, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

by Pete Sargeant | Nov 27, 2016

Beth sure draws a crowd to her shows. This particular performance was throughout so raw and fractured and open that it felt little short of an exorcism.There are no taboos or forbidden song subjects for Hart, she tells it like it is or was to tell her stories.