Blues Spotlight

Paul Thorn with a bluesy version of Buddy Miller’s Shelter me Lord from his new album

Joe Bonamassa with Driving Towards the Daylight off his new album

Owen Campbell, young blues artist from Australia, with Sunshine Road, off his new album. Good slide player, wonderful voice. Enjoy

Ian Siegal with The Revelator (John the apostle)

Walter Trout with a great version of I Shall be Released, which he dedicated to the memory of Levon Helm who died 19 April

Dion sings the blues! Check out this very cool, life-affirming rap from his latest album, Tankful of Blues

Appropriate song for Good Friday. “They nailed him to a tree, He never said a mumblin’ word” . Old spiritual sung by the Welcome Wagon.

Janiva Magness with the heart-wrenching You were never mine

The White House All Stars

Eric Bibb playing “I heard the angels singing”

Brooks Williams plays “Weeping Willow Blues” in No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast.

For our first spotlight on the blues, here’s the great B.B. King telling us why he sings the blues.

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