From Freddie King through to the Blues Band it's another packed edition of Blues is the Truth this week! With tracks from Vanessa Collier, Elles Bailey, Emma Wilson, Junior Wells, Richie Dave Porter, Johnny Burgin, Errol Linton, Bruce Mississippi Johnson, Will Johns, Katie Bradley & Matt Long, Bobby Rush, Otis Grand, The Cinelli Brothers and many more you are sure to find something you love! Hit play and enjoy...

It all starts with Eric Clapton this week, with his take on Hoochie Coochie Man, and then we take a journey through some truly amazing blues and soul music... There's Tony O, Giles Robson and Chris Corcoran, Paul Lamb and the Kingsnakes, Bill Withers, Dr John, Frank Collins, Lisa Mann, Dave Thomas, Kaz Hawkins, Lurrie Bell, John D'Amato, Whitney Shay, Kirk Fletcher and Dave Ferra... What more can you ask for? I don't know! Tune in and enjoy!

Starting with John Verity this is a packed show with lots of brand new music and as it finishes with Muddy Waters a fair smattering of classics along the way... Artists featured include Buddy Guy, Halfdeaf Clatch,Lisa Mann, Wily Bo Water & Kerena K, Malaya Blue, Eric Johansenm Jackie Scott, Ian Siegal, Sugaray Rayford, Robert Cray, Thørbjorn Risager, Shawn Murphy and more... hit play for two hours of awesome!

Starting this week with the Untouchables and finishing with Preston Shannon this is a packed edition of Blues is the Truth! We have new music from Kirk Fletcher, Christine Kingfish Ingram, The Chris Bevington Organisation, John d'Amato, Leon Gill, Eel Pie and more alongside some classics from Robert Cray, Earl Thomas, Poplar Jake, Janiva Magness, Big Mama Thornton and Robin Bibi and that's not all... What to find out what? Hit play! It's the only decent way!

It's a random play week on Blues is the Truth, where I've put software in charge of what songs we get. The rules are simple... every time i press the skip button, if it qualifies as blues it get's played. Good news is it came up with some doozies from folks like Gary Moore, Dave Thomas, Chris Antonik, Dave Ferra, BB King, John Hammond, Colin James, Ronnie Earl, Rocky Athas, West Weston and Little Walter... Perhaps it does a better job than I would! Tune in to find out!

We start this week with a brand new version of a classic from the amazing Kaz Hawkins, in a show that celebrates some of the best new releases from folks like Dave Thomas, Kirk Fletcher, Tony O, Kingfish, Savoy Brown and more. With the loss of Peter Green earlier in the week we pay tribute to him with a collection of songs drawn from across his career with John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac and Otis Spann. There are also tracks from Jo Harman, Leon Gill, JB Lenoir, Toronzo Cannon and Albert Castiglia.

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This week's show starts with Freddie King and ends with Etta James, and in between it's packed with a metric ton of great blues... A lot of this weeks show is brand new music, from folks like Dave Thomas, E D Brayshaw, Kaz Hawkins, Red's Blues, T Belly, Savoy Brown, Tony O, Wily Bo Walker and Dany Flam and more... Along with that there are tracks from Lucy Zirins, Marcus Lazarus, Ry Cooder, Kyla Brox, Kat and Co and even more. Tempted? You just need to hit play to enjoy!

This weekend would have seen the Ealing Blues Festival take place in Walpole Park, but with global pandemics and lockdowns, this year the festival won't be taking place... Worry not, because This week's Blues is the Truth offers a taste of what we would have enjoyed along with an interview with the man who started it all over 30 years ago and is still the artistic director of the event, Robert Salmons.

The show features acts from Robert's musical history including The Shadows, Alexis Korner, Northsyde and Earl Thomas along with some of the acts that would have graced the three stages over the two days including Catfish, Andy Twyman, Robin Bibi, Emma Wilson, Jade Like the Stone, Ed Hopwood, Diana Silvera, The Achievers, The BoonDock Hippy, Jess Hayes, Robbie Reay and more.

Join us on the show's facebook page at 3pm (british summer time) on Saturday the 18th July to listen along and chat with fellow listeners.

This weeks show is a real mixture between the brand new and the absolute classics. On the brand new side we have tracks from Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam, Lafayette Thomas, Walter Trout, Manda Lynn, Robbie Reay, Victor Wainright, Charlie Bedford and more. On the classic side there's Mud Morganfield, Oscar Wilson, Professor Longhair, Buddy Whittington, Tom Waits, JW Jones and more!

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This weeks show is somewhat of a special event... We interview Mike Rivers of the Crawdaddy Club about the charity album Songs of Isolation which he was instrumental in organising along with Mark Ede and Adam Norsworthy. We feature some of the superb tracks from that record intermingled with some brand new tunes and some real blues classics!

Artists featured this week include: Joe Louis Walker, Starlite Campbell Band, Gregg Martinez, Emma Wilson, The Della Grants, Georgia Van Etten, Rick Cassman, Grange McKenna, Staffell & Stewart, Larkin Poe, Mike Vernon, The Surreal Lockdown Experience, Buddy Guy, and Muddy Waters. Tune in for a superb two hours of tunes!