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Living With The Blues - Cliff Aungier

9 April 1941, Croydon, Surrey, England, d. 12 March 2004. It was while watching a television documentary about ‘Big’ Bill Broonzy that Aungier was inspired to buy his first guitar. Before that he played trumpet for the Air Training Cadets, and aspired to be a pilot in...

She Caught The Katy - JP & The Crossroaders

The Crossroaders are a blues band mixed in with a hint of country and rock, playing the likes of Lowell Fulson, The Allman Brothers and Free.JP's voice is as great as ever and with a blues trio behind him it makes for a rockin' evening.Since the Wiseguys, JP has been...

Jim Marshall has passed

The guitar amp pioneer and founder of Marshall Amplification passes away Jim Marshall, 1923 - 2012 © Frank Maechler/dpa/Corbis Dr Jim Marshall OBE, founder of Marshall Amplification, has died aged 88. Since the company was founded 50 years ago, Marshall has become one...

Street Walking Blues - Tramp

Tramp were a British blues band active during the late 1960s and early 1970s on an intermittent basis. This on/off activity and the loose, transient nature of the band’s line-up were reflected in the group’s name.The line-up centered around the brother-sister pairing...