Ep 17: Spike Woods

I sat down over Zoom with Lucy Piper and talked about her childhood, her other interests and her life changing visit to America

I had the pleasure of doing a live interview for a "Fred Talk" at Wotton Under Edge with the wonderful Spike Woods

Welcome to S1 Ep16 of The Blues Jam Podcast, this week I have been speaking with Andy Devine from the band Dogshark, we talked about his early inspirations, how he made music work for him and we talked in some detail about their soon to be released studio album: Earth is not Room Enough If you like your blues a little more rocking and little more distorted then you have to get yourself a copy of this, there will of course be links up on both Instagram and Youtube to their pages where you can find details of how to get your copy   Now, unfortunately there was some human error during the middle third of this interview, I forgot to press record on the zoom meeting, so if you are watching this then all you will see is The Blues Jam Podcast logo for that middle third. Sorry about that.   It’s a long one this week but as always stay tuned till the end for notices of jams that happening over the next couple of weeks.

Welcome to S1 Ep15 of The Blues Jam Podcast, this week I have talking with Liam Ward, Liam is a harmonica teacher who gives lessons both face to face and through his YouTube channel. We talked about how he got started, his thoughts about music and how he made the jump into making music work for him. As always, stay tuned till the end to hear notices of jams that are coming up.

Welcome to S1 Ep14 of The Blues Jam Podcast , this week I have had the pleasure of speaking with Lisa Presland. Lisa is at the start of her blues jam journey and attended her first jam only the other week. We talk about how she got start playing the harmonica, what brought her to her first jam and her thoughts and experiences of being a woman in the blues scene.   As always, stay tuned till the end to hear notices of jams that are coming up.

Welcome to S1 Ep13 of The Blue Jam Podcast, this week I have gone international, I have had the pleasure of chatting with Canadian singer songwriter Erin McCallum about her career, about finding authenticity in the process and about her work as a journalist writing about the blues culture. As always, stay tuned till the end to hear notices of jams that are coming up.

Welcome to S1 Ep12 of The Blues Jam Podcast, this week I was lucky enough to sit down with Ian Mcwee who runs Diamond Bottlenecks, where he makes and sales the finest glass slides. I was lucky enough to be shown round his workshop and get to see him finish of a slide he was working on. So if you are watching this on youtube then the format will be slightly different, as we will start with some of the footage I got of Ian at work. And if you are listening to this then please go and check out youtube or instagram where you will be able to see that video of Ian. As always, stay tuned till the end to hear notices of jams that are coming up.

Welcome to S1 Ep11 of the Blues Jam Podcast where I sit down and chat with Gerry Riley about how he got back into music after taking some time out, he plays us some songs and he tells me about supporting a famous blues guitarist on tour. Just a quick trigger warning, two of the songs featured are about drugs, specifically cocaine and cannabis, you have been warned. As always, stay tuned till the end to hear notices of jams that are coming up.

Welcome to S1 Ep10 of the Blues Jam Podcast where I have ventured out of the south west area to the Black Country to chat with Tony Garrington. We talked about how he was introduced to blues music, we had a brief look at guitar made from bamboo and of course we talked about the jam that he helps to run at The Red House Inn in Stourbridge.As always, stay tuned till the end to hear notices of jams that are coming up.

Welcome to S1 Ep 9 of the Blues Jam Podcast where I talk with Katie and Mark who are two of the organisers of the Gloucester Rhythm and Blues festival. We talk about how they got involved in organising the festival, making up improvised bands at the last minute and how often the famous band TBC play. As always, stay tuned at the end for notices of jams coming up over the next week.