Join me this Wednesday on Digital Blues Gateway for two hours of great blues & real r’n’b. As it is my birthday on Wednesday, I have decided to have a bit of a birthday party with a show full of tracks/artists that I just love.

As a result the playlist has numbers from Tony Joe White, Big Joe Louis & his Blues Kings, Jerimiah Marques & the Blue Aces, Gary Moore, the Snowy White Blues Project, Connie Lush & Blues Shouter, Bad Influence, JJ Cale & Eric Clapton, Aerosmith, Snooks Eaglin, Little Toby Walker, the Roach Twins Band, Sonny Landreth, the Customtones, Southside Denny Snyder, Mark Riley, Denise Brown, Paul Williams & Friends, Storm Warning & Moon Dogs.

In the gig guide there are tracks from Dani Wilde, Will ‘Harmonica’ Wilde and Clive Mulcahy. I doubt that you will find that sort of selection anywhere else so please do join me for what promises to be an extra special show.

As ever, a very varied bill of fare, something for everyone so I hope that you will join me between 8 & 10 p.m. BST this Wednesday by clicking on the Listen Live button in the web site header at www.gatewayfm.com. The show is

Digital Blues Gateway – Wednesday 2^nd June 2010 – 20.00 BST – Gateway FM – Community Radio for Basildon & East Thurrock at www.gatewayfm.com repeated at 22.00 BST on Thursday 3^rd June 2010.

Digital Blues Gateway is one of six specialist blues radio shows that has been selected by the British Blues Awards to reveal, exclusively, the nominees in the inaugural British Blues Awards ahead of the official announcement on 1st June 2010. On Digital Blues Gateway on 26th May 2010, we will be announcing the nominees in the female vocalist and harmonica player categories and playing tracks from some of the runners & riders.

Digital Blues Gateway is pleased and honoured to be afforded this opportunity and thanks the British Blues Awards.

For full details of the Awards and all the radio shows involved, visit the British Blues Aawards at www.britishbluesawards.com

On this week’s Digital Blues Gateway radio show on Gateway FM I look forward to the Blues Music Awards in Memphis which take place tomorrow, Thursday 6th May, and play tracks from some of the nominees such as Duke Robillard, Nick Moss & the Flip Tops, The Mannish Boys, Greg Nagy, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Janiva Magness, Sean Costello, Mike Zito and Fiona Boyes.

There is also another track from the Nottingham Blues Society’s CD featuring the Son Henry Band whilst in the gig guide there are tracks from the Groove Doctors and the Jamie Williams Band.

And I have tracks from new releases from Steve Arvey and Big Jim Adam and John Stilwagen. In a special feature, I mark what would have been Robert Johnson’s birthday on the 8th with two tracks from the man himself and cuts from Robert Palmer & Eric Clapton. Finally, there are tracks from Reba Russell, Billy Lavender and Steve Hooker.

Please join me at 20.00 UK time at www.gatewayfm.com this Wednesday (5th May 2010) for two hours of great blues & real r’n’b. The show is repeated at 22.00 UK time on Thursday 6th May 2010.

Join me this Wednesday for two hours of great blues & real r’n’’b. This week on Digital Blues Gateway, there are tracks from new & recent releases from the Kirk Fletcher, Janiva Magness, Missy Anderson, Nick Moss, David Rotundo, Moreland & Arbuckle, Jimmy Thackerey & the Drivers, Sugar Blue and from the Nottingham Blues Society’s just released compilation CD there is a wonderful track from Big Mamma’s Door.

We also have tracks from Luther Allison, the Michael Hills Blues Mob, Andrew Black, and from Southside Denny Snyder’s Lys Award winning CD.

In the gig guide there is news of some great local gigs over the next 7 days as well as tracks from the Jives & the Bare Bones Boogie Band

Finally there is a quintet of John Lee Hooker tracks featuring the man himself and with Bonnie Raitt plus covers from Gary Brooker & Andy Fairweather Low, Jerimiah Marques & the Blue Aces and Tony ‘T.S.’ McPhee with the late Dick Heckstall-Smith.

 As ever, a very varied bill of fare so I hope that you will join me between 8 & 10 p.m. BST this Wednesday by clicking on the Listen Live button in the web site header at www.gatewayfm.com. The show is repeated at 22.00 BST on Thursday 29^th April 2010.

This week’s playlist was one which I particularly enjoyed putting together. We opened up with four crackers from Ruf Records’ wonderful stable of international female artists.

From Finland there was Erja Lyytinen, from the UK, Blues Award nominee, Joanne Shaw Taylor plus two brand new CDs from Austrian, Meena and the first Ruf Records CD from the superb Canadian Shakura S’Aida. And that was just the first bit!!!

In the gig guide we had tracks from the Paul Cox Band, The SPIKEdrivers and the Nightflies all of whom were playing locally over the next 7 days then there was a lovely instrumental track from France’s Awek. Don’t forget teh Digital Blues Gig Guide at www.digitalblues.co.uk for all teh blues gigs in and around the area.

The final segment featured three more ladies with a superb track from the debut CD from Cath Butler’s Joynt Venture who hail from Queensland, Australia, a track from the late Koko Taylor’s 2007 CD, ‘Old School’, one of Blues Revue’s 25 defining CDs of the last decade and we finished with another Australian artist, Anni Piper. Phew!

That’s Digital Blues, blues ancient and modern on internet radio!!!

Please do join the fun at www.gatewayfm.com at 21.00 GMT this and every Wednesday.  

The full playlist is published on www.digitalblues.co.uk and I look forward to your company every Wednesday on Digital Blues Gateway.

Please join me tonight –  Wednesday 27^th January 2010 –  between 9 & 10 p.m. UK time for Digital Blues Gateway on Gateway FM on the internet at www.gatewayfm.com

This week’s eclectic and international playlist is includes tracks from American country & blues duo the Believers, some rockabilly from the Jooks of Kent and Steve Hooker, some Pacific NW blues from the late Isaac Scott, gig news with Kyla Brox, Stevie King’s Blue Cats and the Jive Aces, a great track from Canada’s David Rotundo Band plus some acoustic gems from Paul Crowley, Bagge & Armer and Sean Taylor and a cracking instrumental from keyboard whizz Jonny Henderson’s just released oeuvre. More variety than Heinz!!!

The full playlist will be published on www.digitalblues.co.uk after the show and I really hope that you will join me this Wednesday and every Wednesday.

Digital Blues Gateway at 21.00 UK time on Wednesday at www.gatewayfm.com.

For the last show of 2009 and of the first decade of the 21^st century, I looked back at some of the Essex bands and artists who have entertained us over the last ten years. Featured were the Nightflies, Hair of the Dog, AM5, Roy Mette, Bad Town Blues, the Swamp Cats, the Rockin’ Armadillos, nublues, the Zoltans, the Motel Kings, the Cadillac Kings, and the Heaters.

Part two of our lookback can be heard on Wednesday 6^th January 2010 at 9 p.m. here on Gateway FM.

I hope you all had a great New Year and that 2010 will bring you what you seek. Don’t forget that Digital Blues Gateway continues each week at 9 p.m. GMT and you can listen at www.gatewayfm.com.

Full playlist details are available at www.digitalblues.co.uk

If you want to contact me, send me an e-mail at gateway@digitalblues.co.uk

I look forward to your company every Wednesday for Digital Blues Gateway.

Christmas comes but once a year so I grabbed the opportunity on the last Digital Blues Gateway of the Christmas RSL to play an hour of Yuletide Blues. I featured tracks from Marcia Ball, Michelle ‘Evil Gal’ Willson, the late Koko Taylor, Shemekia Copeland, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Dave Hole, Carey Bell, the Hitman Blues Band, Lowell Fulson, BB King & John Popper and CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band as well as a great new track from Mark Kerr & Roxy Perry which is not on public release.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and don’t forget that Digital Blues gateway continues each week at 9 p.m. GMT and you can listen at www.gatewayfm.com.

Full playlist details are available at www.digitalblues.co.uk

If you want to contact me, send me an e-mail at gateway@digitalblues.co.uk

I look forward to your company every Wednesday for Digital Blues Gateway.