"The Blues is spiritual and we are spiritual beings because God our maker is a spirit and us writing and creating is all part of the process."

Larry Miller: A Blues Miracle in Albion…

"The music industry has changed the same as everything else. But it's heartwarming when something comes off the street completely apart from the business."

John Dummer: La Vie Est Belle…

"True artists do what they want to do on their own terms."

Lynne Jackaman: 

Maximum British Rock and Soul!…

"The music strikes a chord in the brain whether you are 15 or 55."

The 45s: British Rhythm & Blues Βuds

The band of The 45s was put together by new boy Tom Hamilton when he arrived at Nelson Thomlinson…

"The USA gave us the blues etc and we processed it and gave it back to them."

Mick Abrahams: The Blues Is Everything

Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams was the…

"I think that Blues music is all about passion and the stories that are told in Blues songs usually are about the writers own experiences in life."

Alan Nimmo: The King of Highlands 

King…

"I think in the past the blues was more emotional and evocative. The purpose was to convey a feeling. Nowadays this can be lost in favour of technical ability and over-production."

Bare Bones Boogie Band: UK Rules …

"My biggest fear for the blues is that the current trend of not imposing any restrictions or parameters on what is and isn’t blues will lead to blues disappearing, because you can only change it so much before it becomes something else."

Johnny Whitehill: The Guitar…

"The blues is about being alive!! Its part of the human condition... I can express sorrow, joy, pain, happiness and every emotion through the blues…As long as we have emotion we have the blues..."

Robin Bibi: God Save The Blues…

"For the most part, we all share an emotional understanding even if it's on a fundamental level and Blues music hits it hard."

Mitch Laddie: Blues From Avalon

Mitch Laddie is an artist from the North East of…

"Ideas for songs can be from everywhere, everyday life, meeting folks, a headline, the good, the bad and the ugly."

Garron Frith: Away From Music Dams

Garron Frith is an extremely…

"My hopes for the future are for world peace, love and compassion for all sentient beings and forms of life on this planet." 

Lee Harris: The Underground Alchemist…

"I'd like to be in New Orleans in say 1916 just before they closed down the Storyville red light district and created the diaspora that spread Jazz and Blues all over America and then the world."

John Steel: Brit Beat and Blues Boom…

Andy Pyle: Music is full of hope

In the spring of 1962, while still at school and with no musical background, Andy bought his first bass after volunteering to play with The Spectres on their imminent debut performance. Over the next four years, Andy played with several local…

"Together, blues and jazz have still got the primal spark that’s missing from lots of manufactured pop and TV talent show kids."

Mama Tokus: Ragtime Confessions

Plymouth’s Blues and Soul singer Mama Tokus, aka…

"The most important experiences are the ones where I have learnt something new...not necessarily music either. Knowledge comes from experiences you live through and you can channel that into music."

Mike Cooper: Sliding around the world…

"As long as there are people who 'understand' what is necessary to play Blues and as long as there’s guitar players & guitars, there'll be real blues."

Tony "TS" McPhee: The Lionheart Blues…

"Without a doubt. But there is a lot of stuff which calls itself blues which really isn’t. There is a difference between playing blues and playing THE blues. One of them has feeling!

Matt Wossey: On The Blues Waggon…

“Without a doubt blues possesses honesty of content and presentation.”

Pete Duke: The British Blues Odyssey

Born in Liverpool, Pete’s first band was local group “The Maracas”. Playing a mixture…

The Blues  Round Table 0f 2012

The winners of the 2012 British Blues Awards were announced at Newark Blues…