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Come Back Baby - Lil' Ian Goodsman

My name is Ian Goodsman but known widely as Lil' Ian (that's Lil' as in 'little', Lilian is my mother's name and that's another story). I am an acoustic roots musician spending time between the UK, where I was born, and New Zealand where I have a home. I am known...

Put Your Shoe On The Other Foot - Clare Free

Clare Free is an artist who is redefining the blues for the modern world. Her roots lie in the blues but her influences go way beyond the genre making her one of the most exciting new artists writing and performing in the blues world today. A passionate, award...

Darkest of Days - Funke and the Two Tone Baby

'His material was great, quite bluesy and dirty and performed with real gusto, manically stamping on the box to start and stop loops, frantically picking up different microphones and instruments like a magician pulling props out of a trunk to create some amazing...

Still a Fool (Two Trains Runnin) - Poor Bob Jones

Amateur bluesman ; freelance journalist for Blues In Britain mag. I run a monthly acoustic blues night at the Cellar Bar, Foregate street, in Worcester, third Tuesday every month. Anyone who lives locally could do worse ; since I started running it in June, it has...