Your latest copy of Blues Matters! delivers!

Regulars Features

8 TOP TEN

Oli Brown’s Top Ten

10 HAPPENIN NEWS

Lots of Blues News

98 CD REVIEWS

Over 75 reviews

122 GOT LIVE

BB King and Anna Popovic, Black Country Communion, David Sinclair, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Gregg Allman, Philip Sayce, Robert Cray, Ian Siegal and the Mississippi Allstars and Warren Hayes.

18 INTERVIEWS

Andy Poxon, Austin ‘Walkin’ Cane, Beth Hart, Big Joe Louis, Dago Red, Foghat, Karl Demata, Mick Simpson, Robert Randolph, Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson and Roy Bookbinder.

54 FEATURES

54 Killer Blues 58 Writers Poll 68 History of Blues Slide Guitar 128 Johnson to Bonamassa

82 FESTIVAL FEVER

Abertillery Festival, Blues On The Farm, Hebden Bridge Festival, Ritzville Blues Festival and Worthenbury Festival.

128

BONAMASSA to JOHNSON Blind Willie’s Vision

131 COMPETITION

Win Eric Clapton and Chris Barb er CD’s

94 CD REVIEWS

AL HUGHES, ANA POPOVIC, BETH HART & JOE BONAMASSA, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, BUDDY WHITTINGTON, ERIC SARDINAS and BIG MOTOR, ERROL LINTON, FATS DOMINO, HADDEN SAYERS, THE JEFF HEALEY BAND, JIMMIE VAUGHAN, JOHN MAYS, JOOLS HOLLAND, KARL DEMATA, LAZY LESTER, LEWIS HAMILTON AND THE BOOGIE BROTHERS, LIL JIMMY REED, MIKE ZITO, PADDY MILNER, PHILLIP SAYCE, ROBIN TROWER, RUFF KUTT BLUES BAND, SLIM HARPO, TAB BENIOT, MAGDA PISKORCZYK & SLIDIN’ SLIM, VINTAGE TROUBLE, JAMES ‘YANK’ RACHELL. etc. etc.

Blues Matters! 6 Cover feature Frontman Robert Randolph is part of an American funk soul band playing pedal steel guitar. He was trained as a pedal steel guitarist in the House of God Church and makes prominent use of the instrument in the band’s music. The instrument is referred to in many African-American Pentecostal churches as Sacred Steel.

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa

Austin‘Walkin’Cane

Foghat

Karl Demata

Andy Poxon

RoyBookbinder

MickSimpson

HatFitz CaraRobinson

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