Guilfest!!! Sunday 17 July 2022

British Bluescasting Corporation will be playing at the reborn Guilfest on Sunday afternoon 17th July!! Tickets are available now from the Guilfest website, but they are strictly limited to 5000 per day – we’re expecting this festival to sell out very quickly so get your tickets as soon as you can! Tickets: https://guilfest.co.uk

BOB’S GUITARS ON HIGH HORSE ALBUM

How many guitars have you got? It’s a question that guitarists inevitably ask of one another – and usually pretty early on in a conversation! It may sound as though there is an element of competition involved but the truth is that, as any guitarist worth his plectrum will tell you, from the moment youContinue reading “BOB’S GUITARS ON HIGH HORSE ALBUM”

RECORDING THE BBC’S ALBUM “HIGH HORSE”

“Let’s make a record,” we said to one another over an agreeable curry at our favourite, post-rehearsal restaurant. “How hard can it be?”. Well, with the track record (pun intended) of the band members it should have been a piece of cake. Bob has been producing and playing on albums for 40 years and hadContinue reading “RECORDING THE BBC’S ALBUM “HIGH HORSE””

A (VERY) BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BLUES

What most of us think of as blues today bears little or no relationship to the original music. Its roots are set firmly in the American South and the slave labour brought over from the African continent to work in the fields. These slaves had brought with them the rhythms and musical sensibilities of WestContinue reading “A (VERY) BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BLUES”