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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.

Welcome to S1 Ep8 of the Blues Jam Podcast with Damien Cheung who tells us about why he started a blues jam, some of the etiquette and we even have a little impromptu jam at the end. As always stay tuned at the end for notices of jams coming up over the next week Enjoy

I talk with Danny about how he got started with bands, first hearing Jimi Hendrix and much more. We also get to see some wonderful guitars from the shop that he part owns and runs.

Stay tuned for notices about jams coming up over the next two weeks.

Welcome to S1 Ep6 with Jeremy Way, where he talks about starting up his band Far from the Delta, his heavy metal influences and his lovely bespoke guitar that his friend made for him

Stay tuned till the end to hear about jams coming up in the next 2 weeks

Stuart tells us about his music training, some great advice about buying your second guitar and shows us his resonator guitar that he made from a kit. Stay tuned for notices of upcoming jams in the UK

I talk with Anthony about his early experiences of being in bands, using libraries and music shops to learn songs and we take a look at two of his favourite guitars Stay tuned till the end when I also give some notifications about Blues Jams that are happening over the coming weeks

I talked with Rob about his start with classical guitar training, how he loves to modify his electric guitars and how he learnt the importance of connecting with the music.

I talked with Nick about starting The Terraplanes band, his teenage experiences of music and the jam he created in Bristol

I spoke with Mark about playing the harmonica, how he first heard blues music and why he started the Friday Night Blues Jam in Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire

A little information about your host, Brett Dye