Digital Blues
DIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 19TH JUNE 2013
This week’s edition of the British Blues Awards 2013 nominated Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8, is a British Blues Awards special as it features 13 of the 15 nominated songs in the Kevin Thorpe Memorial Award category plus loads more great tracks from some of the nominees in other categories. There’s Babajack, the Mighty Mojos, the Blind Dead McJones Band, Ron Sayer Jr, Ian Siegal & the Mississippi Mudbloods, Blues ‘n’ Trouble, Oli Brown, Dani Wilde, Otis Grand, Katie Bradley, Tom Doughty, John Fairhurst, Rosco Levee &...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 12TH JUNE 2013
This week on another packed edition of the British Blues Awards 2013 nominated Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8, loads of new and recent releases along with all the variety you have come to expect! On the new arrivals front there are tracks from Albany Down (this month’s IBBA Album of the Month), The Communal Wall, Federal Charm, Marshall Lawrence, Denis Viel, Angel Forrest, Matt Baxter & Jake Sampson, Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers, The Zoltans, Scarlett Rae & the Cherry Reds, Dynamite Horton, Northsyde, Snake Mary, Kat &...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 5TH JUNE 2013
Another packed edition of the British Blues Awards 2013 nominated Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8 tonight with loads of new and recent releases along with all the variety you have come to expect! There are slices of birthday cake for Bernard Sallem (Awek), Gary ‘US’ Bonds and Tom Jones plus new or recent releases from Albany Down (the IBBA Album of the Month for June), Kat & Co, Angel Forrest, Nicole Hart & Anni Piper, 24th Street Wailers, Chuck Leavell, Dale Storr, Robbie Hill & the Blue 62′s, the Fossen &...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – WEDNESDAY 29TH MAY 2013
Another packed edition of the British Blues Awards 2013 nominated Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8 this Wednesday with all the variety you have come to expect! I open with a great track from Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan and then there are loads of new and recent releases from Larry Miller, Paul Rose, Mike Zito & the Wheel, Sterling Koch, Andy Poxon, Ged Wilson, Marshall Lawrence, Poplar Jake, Funke & the Two Tone Baby, Rag Mama Rag, Half Deaf Clatch, Paul Lamb & Chad Strentz and Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers In the...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 15TH MAY 2013
A packed edition of the British Blues Awards 2013 nominated Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8 this Wednesday with all the variety you have come to expect! There are tracks from Blues Music Award winners the late Michael Burks, Tab Benoit, the late Magic Slim & the Teardrops, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Mannish Boys, Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Janiva Magness, Ruthie Foster, Eric Bibb, Curtis Salgado, Irma Thomas and Victor Wainwright. Plus there is a track from Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Joe Louis Walker. There is another track from...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 8TH MAY 2013
The weather may be changing but on this week’s Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8 on Wednesday there are two hours of great music, as always! I will be playing tracks from the other four nominees in the British Blues Awards 2013 Female Vocalist of the Year category which is sponsored by Digital Blues – Jo Harman, Kyla Brox, Laura Fothergill and Lucy Zirins plus there is another chance to catch Digital Blues’ nominee for the Kevin Thorpe Memorial Award for Original British Blues song, Tom Doughty. There is another track from this month’s...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES NOMINATED IN 2013 BRITISH BLUES AWARDS
I am thrilled to learn that, for the third year running, Digital Blues has been nominated in the Independent Blues Broadcast category of the British Blues Awards. To say I am chuffed is putting it mildly and a big thank you goes out to all those who thought to nominate Digital Blues. Voting starts on 8th May 2013 at www.britishbluesawards.com and it would be great if you would consider voting for Digital...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 1ST MAY 2013
It may be May Day but there will be no maypole dancing on this week’s Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8 on Wednesday, I don’t have time as it is a very busy show! I will be exclusively announcing the eight nominees in the British Blues Awards 2013 Female Vocalist of the Year category which is sponsored by Digital Blues and playing tracks by four of the nominees. But I am not going to tell you who they are so you will have to tune in to find out! There is another chance to catch the Kevin Thorpe Memorial Award for Original British Blues...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 10TH APRIL 2013
Another huge load of new and recent releases as well as a couple of unreleased tracks on this Wednesday’s Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8. There are two more tracks from this month’s IBBA Album of the Month, Jock’s Juke Joint Vol 3 – The Stumble and GT’s Boos Band – plus new stuff from the Daniel Smith Blues Band, Chuck Leavell, King King, Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective, Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans, Rag Mama Rag, John Primer & Bob Corritore, The Mighty Mojo Prophets, Los Variants, Dream Boogie,...
read moreDIGITAL BLUES ON GATEWAY 97.8 – 3RD APRIL 2013
This Wednesday’s Digital Blues on Gateway 97.8 is crammed to the gunnels with new releases from all over the place! There are two tracks from this month’s IBBA Album of the Month, Jock’s Juke Joint Vol 3 – Lewis Hamilton and Linda Jaxson – plus new stuff from Savoy Brown, Jo Harman, Big Mama Montse, Kathy Murray, Linda Valori, Juwana Jenkins & Charlie Slavik, Kelly Richey, The Russ Tippins Electric Band, Tyrone Vaughan, Mud Morganfield and Big Bill Morganfield In the gig guide there’s a track from the not yet released new...
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