How to buy the very best of Eric Clapton By Alice Clark From The Yardbirds to The Bluesbreakers, from Cream to The Dominoes, Eric Clapton carved out a legacy like few others
Bo Diddley: a guide to his best albums By Alice Clark Bo Diddley was the gunslingin’, cigar-box guitar-totin’ cool cat who wrote the book of rocking R&B...
Buyer's Guide: Otis Redding By Alice Clark One of the brightest stars at Stax, Redding’s life was cut tragically short, but the work he left behind lives on...
Mavis Staples: The Life And Soul Of A Legend By Alice Clark The Chicago soul and gospel icon explains how Martin Luther King led her to make some of the defining songs of the civil rights era
Buyer's Guide: New Orleans Blues By Alice Clark Blues from The Big Easy has a different flavour to that made anywhere else. Tuck in to the finest cuts the city has to offer.
The First Time I Met The Blues: No Sinner By Alice Clark No Sinner frontwoman Colleen Rennison had a youthful brush with Hollywood stardom, but the allure of the blues proved too tempting…
Linda Gail Lewis: Hard Rockin' Woman By Alice Clark Jerry Lee Lewis's little sister on hanging out with Elvis Presley and John Lennon, and being a rock’n’roll stalwart with an R&B soul.
Call & Response: Ben Poole By Alice Clark Fresh from a tour with Stevie Nimmo, the British blues guitarist discusses keeping it live and hanging with his heroes.
Payin' Dues: Martha High By Alice Clark The original JB funky diva talks new album, James Brown and the Rumble In The Jungle.
The Kentucky Headhunters start their debut UK tour By Alice Clark The Kentucky Headhunters overcome their phobias and pack their bags to head to Ramblin’ Man Fair.
Charles Bradley: From James Brown Impersonator To Late-Blooming Soul Star. By Alice Clark A turbulent childhood and life on the streets were tough, but inspired by James Brown, Charles Bradley made it to the Harlem Apollo and beyond. This is his inspirational story…
Robin McKelle: “I fell in love with Gregory Porter’s voice.” By Alice Clark New Yorker Robin McKelle comes full circle on an album that sees her up close and personal.
Buyer's Guide: T-Bone Walker By Alice Clark The man with the eye-popping live show influenced everyone from BB King to Jimi Hendrix. Here’s the music you need…
Toronzo Cannon: “Life and living a little bit is a big influence.” By Alice Clark A bus driver by day and a soulful bluesman by night, all hail the new Chicago king Toronzo Cannon.
First Time I Met The Blues: Steve Hooker By Alice Clark The Heat’s former rockabilly blues guitar man on Pretty Things, Motown and punk-rock memories.
Payin' Dues: Vieux Farka Touré By Alice Clark Malian desert bluesman inspired by John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix and his dad Ali Farka Touré.
James Hunter: The Road To Glory By Alice Clark Essex singer-songwriter James Hunter was working on the railways when he found a path to blues glory under the stewardship of Van Morrison, Georgie Fame and Allen Toussaint. Now he’s one of Da
Shuggie Otis: the lost R&B star who came in from the wilderness By Alice Clark The son of an R&B legend, guitar virtuoso Shuggie Otis followed in the footsteps of his old man Johnny Otis and did it his way. “There were depressing times,” he says. “But there were good tim
Buyer's Guide: Ike & Tina Turner By Alice Clark From their explosive, raw beginnings to their final R&B hurrah, Ike and Tina crossed many musical genres…
From Railway Wails To Off The Rails: Buyer's Guide To Harmonica Blues By Alice Clark Blues just wouldn’t be the same without the wailing of the harp. Here we celebrate the people who blow the hardest…
Payin' Dues: Jeb Loy Nichols By Alice Clark The Wyoming-born sage behind Country Got Soul and the Country Soul Revue.
Payin' Dues: Mollie Marriott By Alice Clark A chip off the old block, Steve Marriott’s scion launches solo career.
Payin' Dues: Kris Barras Band By Alice Clark Former Shooting For Thrills frontman finally comes good with his own band
Is the world ready for Songhoy Blues? By Alice Clark Having fled civil unrest in their hometown, Mali blues-punks Songhoy Blues have taken their story to the world with Music In Exile. And the world is ready to listen...
The First Time I Met The Blues: Dennis Greaves By Alice Clark From tearing up the 100 Club with Chuck Berry to igniting anarchy on The Young Ones, the Nine Below Zero man has lively memories...
