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Single review: LAURENCE JONES – One Life

Website [Release date 07.11.25] Laurence Jones’ accolades and achievements are too long to write on the neck of a Stratocaster, which is just as well, as he is playing acoustic guitar on the single One Life, taken form forthcoming acoustic … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, acoustic blues, blues, Laurence Jones, One Life, review, single, tour dates
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Album review: RITCHIE DAVE PORTER – Fast Train Rollin’

Self Release [Release date 01.05.19] Ritchie Dave Porter is back with another slice of his unique serene calmness and emotional honesty, as he takes us on an autobiographical acoustic blues journey to the red button of the recording studio. From … Continue reading
Book Review: DOUG MACLEOD –The Authorized Compact Biography by Vincent Abbate

Create Space Independent Publishing Platform [Published 18.09.18] Vicente Abbate’s 143 page paperback ‘Doug MacLeod: The Authorized Compact Biography’, takes a unique approach in his appreciation of his blues hero. Abbate dives straight into the first time he came across the … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic blues, Albert Collins, album, BB King, Big Mama Thornton Hollywood Fats, blues, Chuck Berry, Doug MacLeod, Ernest Banks, George ‘Harmonica’ Smith, guitar, Pee Wee Crayton, review, Robert Lockwood Jnr, Smokey Wilson a young Rod Piazza, The Authorized Compact Biography, Vincent Abbate Who Is Blues Vol.1, Walter Trout, Willie Dixon
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