I’m pleased to report blues and blues-rock is being reasonably well-represented at this year’s “sold How Glastonbury looks from the air. Over 100,000 will attend out” Glastonbury music festival, kicking off tomorrow (Wednesday June 25). Before the festival started in 1970, you might be interested to know Glastonbury’s main claim to fame was the visit…

Updated 20 July 2019. Check Lee Cooper’s electric blues guitar from 67 years ago. One of the purposes of this blog is to draw attention to exceptional musicians – blues or otherwise – who for some reason, often the passage of time, have been virtually forgotten. My most recent “discovery” is Lee Cooper, not the British jeans…

UPDATED October 11, 2021 Post was transferred from another site. Layout was very resistant to being re-formatted. “Cor blimey, guv’! Old London tarn a blues city? We ain’t Septics yet!”, cackled the black cab driver, as cockney as they come. I’d just put the question to him on my way to watch London garage blues band, the  Jim Jones Review, at the…

Is Spotify flapping about like this in America? The music streaming service, Spotify, has botched its chance to dominate market share in the USA, says the US Business Editor of Britain’s influential Daily Telegraph, Katherine Rushton, from New York. When Spotify’s reclusive Swedish founder, Daniel Ek, launched his product in 2006, she says, “(Music) industry…