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Javier Vargas – Blues Latino
Pete meets the renowned Spanish guitar stylist in North London to discuss recent recordings and much more, taking in Carlos Santana and Canned Heat…
Read MoreThe Zombies On The Band And The Blues (Part Two)
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…
Read MoreThe Zombies On The Blues (Part One)
The Zombies – veteran purveyors of scintillating and haunting music for over five decades, drawing on jazz, rock and blues influences at every turn but scoring durable chart hits all over the world, even gifting Carlos Santana with one of his biggest hits and spurring The Byrds to explore psychedelia…
Read MoreDoyle Bramhall II – Tea, Tones And Tunes
With a new album coming out on Mascot and titled Shades it seems a good time to catch up again with the artist as he flies in from sunny California to overcast Shoreditch for press sessions. Pete and fellow guitarist Colin Howell grab a beverage and join Doyle at his hotel this morning to talk about the new record:
Read MoreGregg Allman – The Road Home
The man who knows more than anybody outside Gregg Allman’s family about his final years is his manager and close friend Michael Lehman. Pete met him in London to talk about the great musician’s final years…
Read MoreEchoes Of Ellington Jazz Orchestra – Jazz Planets
The Echoes of Ellington Jazz Orchestra is under the direction of Peter Long and the subtitle of this release is A Tribute To Gustav Holst and Duke Ellington.
Read MoreTommy Emmanuel
The Australian guitar stylist is back in the UK for some shows. Ahead of these, we were able to run some questions past the prince of the Fretboard…
Read MoreMike Zito – First Class Life
Zito doesn’t go for that racing around, foot on the monitor, extreme face-pulling style of guitar. He just plays out and keeps his cool, channelling soul through his fingertips. Better still he doesn’t shout or groan, he actually sings..and if these comments puzzle you, you should hear a lot of the stuff we receive to review.
Read MoreOcean Blues – Making Waves
This act seems to be south Surrey based and play blues-based music. We offered the group one of our (customised) 20 Questions sets and as you will see from their responses, they know their music..So thanks Ocean Blues, from Just Listen To This
Read MoreMick Fleetwood – A Mac Book – at last!
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.
Read MoreH.E.A.T – Into The Great Unknown
Swedish rockers head to Thailand to lay down tracks for a brand new record. At Karma Sound in Bangkok and with producer Tobias Lindell helming the sessions, ten songs are recorded.
Read MoreSteely Dan – Are These People With You?
Take any album release, slip the record onto the turntable…and you will soon be rubbing shoulders with a bizarre slew of individuals brought to you by Steely Dan.
Read MoreKrissy Matthews – Live At Freak Valley
A proper live album is what Matthews claims to deliver here, folks. As in, not ‘fixed’ in the studio later. In the past some performance recordings have had so many parts touched up or even replaced by engineers that they can hardly claim to be ‘Live’. Or ‘Dangerous’… I will say no Moore.
Read More2016 In Review – Part One
Welcome readers to our personal roundup of good moments and events that happened during this year. Maybe one of your favourite acts or artists is mentioned? Read on to find out and bear in mind we are thinking sounds AND sights…..
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