Dave Keyes plays live and

Doug returns 18 months after his last visit and talks and plays tracks from his forthcoming 2013 album

Doug MacLeod plays live and

3AM play live and

Dave flies in from New York for a short UK visit and talks about his influences and music and plays 4 great tracks live, with Steve Rushton on snare and brushes.

a great live set from the band with 'Please Send Me Someone To Love', 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Insatiable' and 'Highway'. The last three tracks written by the band and from their new album "Long Time Coming". http://www.3am.uk.com

Laurence Jones plays live and

Laurence visits the Raven & Blues for the first time and plays 'Why Do You Love Me', 'Bad Girl', 'Gotta Get Back Up' and 'Going Down' off his album 'Thunder In The Sky'

This week, the Bare Bones Boogie Band play live and

Helen, Iain, Trev and Andy visit for the first time and play Fallin' For Foolin', Mean Old Man, Sittin' Here Sewin' and A Little Bit More all from their new album BBBBCD2

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Mike "Dr Blue" McKeon plays live and

Mike visits the boat for the first time and plays Rocking Chair, Heaven Bound, Getting Drunk & Hear The Devil Calling all from his latest album

Stuart visits and performs a rare acoustic set and talks about the new CD

Buddy Whittington plays live and

Along with Roger Cotton on keyboards and Pete Stroud on bass, Buddy talks about his 15 year musical career with John Mayall and life since 2008. Includes four great live tracks.

The band return to the boat to play 3 tracks from their new album "When The Ship Goes Down" - Melon Man, Leadbelly, Ain't Gonna Beg No More and a rare cover - Hendrix's Red House.

24 Pesos play live and

Miss Quincy & the Showdown - Shari Rae on upright bass and Holly Magnus on drums - visit the Raven & Blues and play a lovely languid set with Dirty Sunday, Dawson City Line, Silent Movie and Going Down from the new album "Like The Devil Does"

Miss Quincy & the Showdown play live and

Matt Andersen plays live and

Matt returns to the boat after almost 3 years and plays acoustic four tracks from the new album - "Coal Mining Blues", "Make You Stay", "She Comes Down" & "Home Sweet Home"

Krissy Matthews plays live and

Krissy comes to the boat for the first time and plays four new acoustic tracks, and talks about the new album coming later in the year.

This week, Lisa Mills is live and

Lisa Mills visits the boat for the first time and with Ian Jennings on string bass sings "Tennessee Tears", "Keep on Smiling", "Tempered In Fire" and "Don't Slow Down"

This week Mitch Laddie plays live and

Mitch returns to the boat and plays acoustic with 3 tracks from the forthcoming album "Burning Bridges"

A taster of the session with Walter Trout & Popa Chubby and

The two Giants Of Blues Rock come to the boat to talk and play - turn the volume to 11!

Something Blue play live and

Sarah Rayner & Rob Skinner visit the boat and play Monkey & The Engineer, Cheap Champagne, Hell No & They're Red Hot from their new album "Grass Roots"

Liam Tarpey plays live and

Liam is our first live guest of 2012 and talks about the past year and plays four tracks live

Songs from the floor - My unsorted pile of CDs that has built up over the year crashed to the ground this week. Sorting out and filing the pile into the racks gave me this week's show.

Poplar Jake visits the houseboat, plays and talks about his influences, his writing and his blues journey.

Grainne Duffy plays live and

Grainne Duffy visits the boat for the first time and records four live tracks Everyday, Driving Me Crazy, Please Take Care & Waiting For You with Paul Sherry on Acoustic Guitar and Davy Watson on Bass and backing vocals.

Jo Harman plays live and

Jo makes her first visit to the houseboat with Mike Davies on guitar and four great tracks -  'Worthy of Love', 'Cold Heart', 'Underneath The River' and 'How I Got To Memphis'

Crooked Heart Of Mine, Devil Led Evil, Some Kinda King & Hometown all off the new album - Crooked Heart Of Mine with Giles on harp and vocals, Ian Jennings: Bass, Fiilp Kozlowski: Guitar and Mike Hellier: Drums

This week we highlight the Blues Blast Music Award Winners announced at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago on Thursday night.

My recorder developed a fault and dropped intermittent short sections of the interview.  I hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment of a great half an hour in his London hotel room with three tracks from the forthcoming album.

This week we mourn the passing of David Honeyboy  Edwards

A load of new material including a sampler from the new collaboration between Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa

Clare returns to the Raven & Blues and talks about and plays songs from the next album.

This week, a very Manx feel with Backdoor Slam, Simon Cambell and Marc Tyley. There's lots of 'backs' too!

Paul Lamb, Joey and Layla visit the boat, not to play live this time but to talk about the new album "Tales From The Gravel"

Cherry Lee Lewis is our live guest and we look at some of the nominees in the 2011 Blues Blast Music Awards

Cherry returns to the boat with Max Milligan on guitar and Robbie Stewart-Mathews on bass and plays a fabulous set and talks about the past year.

Little Miss Higgins in session plus

Together with Foy Taylor on guitar, Little Miss Higgins fresh from two nights at the Royal Festival Hall with K D Lang, talks about her career and plays four numbers live.

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A tribute to Bob Dylan on his 70th and loads of new releases 

This week, a Robert Johnson Special to commemorate his birth on 8th May 100 years ago - and watch out for Part 2 within 24 hours

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This week, the 7 nominees in the Overseas Artist Section of the British Blues Awards 2011

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