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  "Long may the Blues wake up this morning and every morning"

NOTICEBOARD:   
 
NEW: Red Lick Records to re-open Summer 2008.
  Updated:
2008 UK Blues Festivals Diary as at 9th May 08...Check for regular updates!
 
Updated 29th April: The 20th Burnley National Blues Festival photos
 
Check out: All the photos and reviews of major UK Blues Festivals over many years from
             Alan White, Paul Webster, Courtland Bresner, Tony Higgins &
 Steve Wosket
 
Thanks for the memories.... 2007 UK Blues Festivals Diary    

 
Coming soon: 'The English Music Hall Connection', an in-depth study of the English music hall
  as a strong, non-African root of the blues - due to be published on this website mid June
 
Coming soon: 'Deep South Early Blues' travelogue
 
Coming soon... A mammoth new series of blues CDs from Masked Marvel Records:
         Voice of The Blues:
Blues & Gospel of the African American 
  Updated:
Barrow R&B Club (Barrow in Furness): Gigs for
May and June
 
Updated:
Blues Artists & Bands Index - indexing artists & bands on the 'earlyblues' website
 
Updated 24th April: Dai Thomas's Blues Singers and their Instruments list
  NEW:
Survey of Black Preachers in the South-before 1940 - a new essay from Max Haymes
  NEW:
Michael Gray Event:
A
DVD-illustrated talk, In Search of Blind Willie McTell      
 
NEW: Ted Crook & The Blues Highway at The Plough, Hereford
 
 
Updated: Blues Memories - recollections of the blues 

 
Check out: Info about a new upcoming UK documentary: Gettin' the Blues

 
Updated: Streaming the Blues as at 4th May 08 - Worldwide Blues Radio on the Internet
 
Updated: Down The Dirt Road 5 (travelling the Southern States) from Courtland Bresner
 
Updated: Photos of the Carlisle Blues Fest 2007  
   
 
Updated: Photos of the Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival 2007 by Bert Deivert 
 
Check out: Jumpin' The Blues - a new essay from Steve Pilkington 
 
Check out: Best of British Blues Awards 2007, compiled by Alan White   

 
Check out: Recommended Blues Books - Blues, Gospel, Zydeco and R&B
 
Check out: Blues Internet Magazines
 
Check out some Blues Video Clips (awesome!) 
 
Highly recommended: Michael Gray's excellent book:
  HAND ME MY TRAVELIN' SHOES: In Search of Blind Willie McTell +
Even more Reviews 
 
Updated: More photos of the Skegness Rock & Blues Festival 2008  
 
Updated: Carlisle Blues Fest 2007 photos
  Updated:
Colne Great British R&B Festival 2007 photos
 
Updated: Maryport Blues Festival 2007 Photos & Reviews by Alan White & Courtland Bresner
 
Updated: Upton Blues Festival 2007 -
including photos of the floods and the street party!
 
Updated: Linton Festival 2007 Photos and Reviews by Alan White and Steve Wosket 
 
Updated: Burnley Blues Festival 2007 Photos by Alan White and Paul Webster
 
Check out JSP Records for the new Leroy Carr and Ma Rainey 'Mother of the Blues'
  5 CD box sets - both sets compiled and annotated by Max Haymes

 
Excellent essay from Michael Gray: Ghost Trains of Mississippi. Check out other blues essays
  
 
A must for blues fans... Max Haymes's new book RAILROADIN' SOME + updated Reviews
 
Max's Juke-Joint Blues Club -
Robert Gillow Pub, Lancaster every Sunday 4pm-8pm

This is the original 'Early Blues' Website, founded in October 2000 by Alan White and regularly developed since then with a vast range of excellent material I hope you enjoy, with contributions from renowned blues historian, author and lecturer Max Haymes, acoustic blues guitarist and blues instrument researcher Dai Thomas, acoustic delta blues guitarist and blues gravestones expert Courtland Bresner, photographer Paul Webster, blues portrait artist Loz Arkle, Midlands reviewer Steve Wosket, and North East reviewer Tony Higgins.
Our purpose
is to broaden awareness and understanding of the origins of blues music and to encourage and support live blues music - 'keeping the blues alive'.

To do this we:

¨ 
research, produce and publish blues articles and essays

¨  promote blues books, DVDs, films and Internet based blues radio
¨  promote and support UK blues festivals (with reviews and photographic portfolios)
¨  encourage budding blues artists and bands

¨  support associated blues societies and blues magazines
¨  maintain this website (incorporating all of the above and the side panel)

For the most recent updates see the Noticeboard above or see What's New.

For the record: this is an educational website and no content may be copied for commercial use (see our copyright notice). If in doubt, email me (Alan White) at alan.white@earlyblues.com 

All the work maintaining this site is completely voluntary (with no financial support whatsoever), coz' we're passionate about the blues and we want to keep the blues alive! 

   
The Blues Festival now featured is:

Earl Thomas © Copyright 2008 Alan White. All Rights Reserved.
 

The next UK Blues Festival to be featured will be:
Linton Music Festival 2008

  

Click here for more details
 

The next US Blues Festival to be featured will be:
Chicago Blues Festival 2008

 


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The book now featured is...

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Thanks.   Alan White


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