Rodney at the Blues: Monday 29th August 2011

1.30pm – 3.00pm: Sisters In Grease

“Formed in 2008 Sisters in Grease were launched at the Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival. The duo, named after a song title, play an original brand of acoustic bottleneck blues.” More on their website, here: and samples, here

3.30pm – 5.00pm: Andy Stone

Well-known from the Winchesters, and their various spin-off bands. Expect soft toys, gurning, and some rollicking boogie piano.

5.30pm – 7.00pm: Jack Blackman

“Jack Blackman is seventeen. We're not going to bang on incessantly about this because Jack's heartily sick of hearing about how he's some kind of wunderkind and frankly, it doesn't really matter - other than giving us pause to consider the obvious facts that he sings and writes in a voice way beyond his years and that he must have been playing the guitar before he was crawling to get that good. Actually, we know that last bit isn't true, because it's around seven years ago that he found his dad's old Jedson Telecaster copy in the loft. His dad told him that if he could learn to play ten chords properly, he'd buy him a decent guitar. Less than a week later he'd not only passed the test with flying colours, but found himself totally hooked, especially to playing the blues." - read more

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