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Regulars Features

8 TOP TEN

Gerry Jablonski top 10

12 88 HAPPENIN NEWS Lots of Blues News

ROBERT JOHNSON 100 Year Celbration

94 CD REVIEWS

Over 65 reviews

16 INTERVIEWS

Buddy Whittington, Doug Macleod, Gerry Jablonski, Jim Sulher, Jon Amor, Magda Piskorczyk, Michael Messer, Sam Hare, Samantha Fish, Scott Billington, Texas Slim, Wilko Johnson.

78 FESTIVAL FEVER

Big Wheel Festival, Hebden Bridge Festival, Byron Bay Blues, Thornhill Blues Festival, Westons Cider Blues Trail & Sprite Festival.

114 GOT LIVE

North Mississippi All Stars Duo/Ian Siegal, Mama Rosin/Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers, Eric Clapton, Glenn Hughes & Joanne Shaw Taylor, Ian Parker, Sandi Thom, Jerry Donahue & The Revelators, Lewis Hamilton & The Boogie Brothers, Rod Stewart, Chantel McGregor, Buddy Whittington Band, Aynsley Lister, King King, Rory Ellis.

10 FEATURES

10 Rory Gallagher 66 Slide Guitar 122 Studio Live 126 Shirley Collins 128 Before We Forget

94 CD REVIEWS

GILES ROBSON & THE DIRTY ACES, ALAN BLACK, BEN PRESTAGE, IAN SIEGAL (and The Youngest Sons), CONNIE LUSH, HOKIE JOINT, DEL BROMHAM, GERRY JABLONSKI & THE ELECTRIC BAND, BEN WATERS, SHAWN PITTMAN, BIG BOY BLOATER AND THE LIMITS, NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, P-A-U-L, THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, BRIAN KRAMER, NAVA CROSS, T-BONE WALKER, TEXAS SLIM, TOMMY CASTRO, R.B STONE, ROBIN TROWER, MARCUS MALONE, KRISSY MATTHEWS, MAMA ROSIN with HIPBONE SLIM and the KNEE TREMBLERS.

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