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"Long
may the Blues wake up this morning and every morning"
NOTICEBOARD:
by Alan White and Steve Wosket
Updated:
'Deep South Early Blues' travelogue
Coming soon: Photos of Ray Stubbs
at The Plough,
Hereford
Check out:
Red Lick Records to
re-open summer 2008.
Check out: The
20th Burnley National Blues Festival
photos
Check out:
All the photos and reviews of
major UK Blues Festivals
over many years from
Alan
White, Paul Webster, Courtland Bresner, Tony Higgins &Steve Wosket
Thanks
for the memories....
2007 UK Blues Festivals Diary
Coming soon:
'The English Music Hall Connection', an in-depth study of the English music hall
as a strong, non-African root of the blues - due to be published on this
website mid July
Blues & Gospel of the African American
Updated:
Barrow R&B Club (Barrow in Furness):
Gigs for June and July
Blues Artists & Bands Index - indexing artists & bands on the 'earlyblues' website
Updated 24th April: Dai
Thomas's Blues Singers and their Instruments
list
Survey of Black
Preachers in the South-before 1940
-
a new
essay from
Max
Haymes
A
DVD-illustrated talk, In Search of
Blind Willie McTell
Check out: Ted
Crook & The Blues Highway at The Plough,
Hereford
Check out: Info about
a new upcoming UK documentary:
Gettin' the Blues
Updated:
Streaming the Blues as at
4th May 08 - Worldwide Blues Radio on
the Internet
Updated: Down The Dirt Road
5
(travelling the Southern States) from Courtland Bresner
Updated:
Photos of the
Carlisle Blues Fest 2007
Updated:
Photos of the Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival 2007 by
Bert Deivert
Check out:
Best of British Blues Awards 2007,
compiled by Alan White
Check out:
Recommended Blues Books -
Blues, Gospel, Zydeco and R&B
Check out: Blues Internet Magazines
Check out some
Blues Video Clips
(awesome!)
Highly recommended:
Michael Gray's excellent book:
HAND ME MY TRAVELIN'
SHOES: In Search of Blind Willie McTell +
Reviews
Updated:
Carlisle Blues Fest 2007
photos
Updated:
Colne Great British R&B Festival 2007
photos
Updated:
Maryport
Blues Festival 2007
Photos & Reviews by Alan White & Courtland Bresner
Updated:
Upton Blues Festival
2007 -
including photos of the floods and the street party!
Updated: Linton Festival 2007
Photos and Reviews by Alan White and Steve Wosket
Check out
JSP Records for the new
Leroy Carr
and
Ma
Rainey
'Mother of the Blues'
5 CD box sets - both sets compiled and annotated by Max
Haymes
Excellent essay
from Michael Gray:
Ghost Trains of Mississippi.
Check out
other
blues essays
A must for blues fans... Max Haymes's new book
RAILROADIN' SOME
+
updated
Reviews
Max's
Juke-Joint Blues Club
-
Robert Gillow Pub,
Lancaster every Sunday 4pm-8pm
This
is the original 'Early Blues' Website, founded
in October 2000 by Alan White
and regularly developed since then with a vast range of excellent material
I hope you enjoy,
with contributions from renowned blues historian, author and lecturer
Max Haymes,
acoustic blues guitarist and blues instrument researcher
Dai Thomas, acoustic
delta blues guitarist and blues gravestones expert
Courtland Bresner, photographer
Paul Webster, blues
portrait artist
Loz Arkle,
Midlands reviewer Steve Wosket,
and North East reviewer
Tony Higgins.
Our purpose
is to broaden awareness and understanding of the origins of
blues music and to encourage and support live
blues music - 'keeping the blues alive'.
To do this we:
¨ research,
produce and publish blues articles and essays
¨
promote blues
books, DVDs, films and Internet based blues radio
¨
promote and support UK blues festivals
(with reviews and photographic portfolios)
¨
encourage
budding blues artists and bands
¨
support
associated blues societies and blues magazines
¨
maintain this
website (incorporating all of the above and the side panel)
For
the most recent updates see the Noticeboard above or see
What's New.
For the record: this is
an educational website and
no content may be copied for commercial use (see
our
copyright notice). If in doubt, email me
(Alan White) at alan.white@earlyblues.com
All the work maintaining this site is completely voluntary (with no
financial support whatsoever), coz' we're passionate about the blues and
we want to keep the blues alive!
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The UK Blues
Festival now featured is:
Linton Music Festival 2008
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details
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The next UK Blues Festival to be featured will
be:
Friday, 18th to Sunday, 20th July
Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
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details
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The
next US Blues Festival to be featured will be:
Chicago Blues Festival 2008

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info.
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The previous Blues Festival featured was:
 
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The book now featured is...
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