There’s Only Two Sonny Boys
Sonny Boy Williamson #2 backstage at Birmingham Town Hall, photographed by Jim Simpson In the Blues world, the odd incident…
Cadillac Jack
Sometime in the early 1970s I received a seven inch single along with a note from Andre Williams in Chicago…
Henry’s Botanical Blueshouse Rides Again
Dateline Sunday 2pm: The first performance of the 2021 season of Henry’s Botanical Blueshouse. The Nitecrawlers opened their show precisely…
The Blues are back at Henry’s Botanical Blueshouse
It seems a lot more than just a few months since Birmingham had its last shot of The Blues in…
Remembering Tony Ashton
Tony Ashton was for much of his life a well – kept secret, respected by many of our finest musicians,…
Shooting the Blues
We’re in the scary process of trying to put in some semblance of order the artefacts created by around 60…
Henry’s Old Boys
In 1968, John Michael Obsourne, Terence Michael Joseph Butler and William Thomas Ward from Aston, together with Anthony Frank Iommi…
Those Wild Women Who Sing The Blues
Listening to those self-assured early female blues singers, I’m always impressed by the strength of character, confidence and self-assuredness at…
Home Sweet Homesick James
April 30th would have been the 100 and somethingth birthday of the legendary Homesick James. Jim shares his reminisences of…
Lone Star State Blues
The origins of Texas Blues go back to the early 1900s when a veritable army of the unemployed came to…