Blues Enthused

JW-Jones knows his onions, as they probably never say in his hometown of Ottawa.  Spruce looking in his shirt and tie, in a manner Muddy and...

A month or two back I came across an interview in The Times with Sharleen Spiteri of Texas.   It was ghastly.   Full of celebrity tosh abou...

What a difference a day makes, as Dinah Washington sang.   In which case, how much difference can three years make? The last time I saw S...

How did this one get past me?   Maybe because Rufus Black is a bit of misdirection – there is, in fact, no-one called Rufus Black in Rufus ...

Onstage is a man who is a walking encyclopedia of scrappy, underdog American pop, a champion of the music of the urban outsiders.   He’s al...