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Regulars Features

Claire Free reveals her Top Ten Songs

Find out new on the scene

Carlise Festival, Cambridge Festival, Skegness Festival.

Woodstock Experience, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Blues Before Sunrise – The radio Interviews…

Joe Bonamassa, John Fogerty, Soul Power …

The Hoax, Larry Miller, Jon Amor, Deborah Bonham, Miller Anderson, Ian Siegal/Matt Schofield, John Mayer, Philip Sayce, Virgil and the Accelerators, Marcus Bonfanti Eric McFadden & Taste…

64 CD REVIEWS POPA CHUBBY, BILL WYMAN, RICHARD NEWMAN, ROD PIAZZA & THE MIGHTY FLY- ERS BLUES QUARTET, RUDY ROTTA, THE SNOWY WHITE BLUES PROJECT, WAL- TER TROUT, DALE STORR, MARSHALL RUFFIN, THE ANDY SMYTHE BAND, B.B KING, CHRIS FARLOW, BERNARD AL- LISON GROUP, BON JOVI, BARE BONES BOOGIE BAND, MICHAEL ROACH, LOS CENZONTLES WITH DAVID HIDALGO AND TAJ MAHAL, ERIC MCFADDEN, TASTE, DELTA MOON, GEOFF ACHISON, HENRIK FREISCHLADER, JOHN LEE HOOKER, KOKO TAYLOR, LARRY GARNER WITH NORMAN BEAKER & FRIENDS, BEN ANDREWS, BEN WATERS, LUCKY PETER- SON, LUTHER ALLISON, MEMPHIS LINDA JANE, THE ACES, NORAH JONES…

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Jack Bruce, Robert Cray, Bill Wyman, Oli Brown, “David Honeyboy” Edwards The Mustangs, Bex Marshall

Led Zeppelin.

Feed Me

Wille Dixon In 1977 Page said “It was always the Blues. Scotty Moore and Gene Vincent were influences until I heard Elmore James and BB King and basically that was it for me– a mixture of rock and blues”. Plant observed that he “.....started out with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Little Walter songs before anything”. Many of their signature numbers are based on ancient Blues riffs, ‘Dazed and Confused’ borrows heavily from Howlin’ Wolf and ‘Whole Lotta Love’ is Willie Dixon’s ‘You Need Love’ on permit.

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