It would be stretching the truth to say that Lonesome Jimmy Lee Robinson was a bunch of fun. On the other hand, he always turned up on time and did…

To anyone who knows about the blues, “Got My Mojo Working” is inextricably linked with Muddy Waters. For heaven’s sake, he featured the song on every performance, it was practically…

Back in November, Henry’s Blueshouse hosted a memorable performance by the New York City-based Hitman Blues Band, the Rockingest, Rollingest, Jumping and Jiving blues big band we have seen in…

Picking up from where we left off last week in our quest to find as many blues performers with the name Brown as possible, let’s begin with the ladies. There’s…

Most everyone knows of Charles Brown, the man responsible for the best of all Christmas Songs, “Merry Christmas Baby”, Texas blues giant Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Dallas-born Walter Brown who…

The Blues talk this week is all about the amazing blues jam of last Sunday, Blues For Ukraine at Henry’s Blueshouse at Velvet Music Rooms where some 25 of the…

Last week we introduced Chickenbone John, Ricky Cool, Roy Forbes, Bullmoose K. Shirley, King Pleasure and Johnny Caswell. This week it’s the turn of… The Nitecrawlers Now well-established as one…

With that very important Blues For Ukraine event less than two weeks away, I thought it would be good to take a look at the impressive line-up of blues musicians…

One of the most extraordinary musicians that I ever had the good fortune to work with was Howard McCrary. Equally comfortable singing and playing piano in gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm…

Digging back into the Big Bear archives is always a fascinating and often surprising business. For instance, I just came across the programme for the 5th year of our Birmingham…