Steve Payne

Roots, country and blues guitarist, Steve Payne, variously described as “one of the UK’s finest guitarists” and "one of rock’s fallen angels”, first stepped onto the stage in 1972, appearing in various college folk clubs. His first paid performance – for the princely sum of £10 – was in the inauspicious surroundings of the Printers Devil pub in Slough in 1974.

Blues Archive

The Blues Archive project is dedicated to gathering and maintaining a comprehensive audio-visual and photographic library of the contemporary blues world. Also, to assisting talented blues musicians.

Kieran Halpin

Born June 4 1955 (yes Gemini) in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland. Raised in Collon, population 150 approximately, educated in Tullyallen primary (a two teacher school, one of whom was father Tom) and Ardee De La Salle secondary. The first guitar was a Spanish nylon strung, costing £17. That same evening Kieran learned Am and Em and wrote his first song. Having left school at 18 Kieran went "on the road" to Dublin, 35 miles south of Collon. (Songs written at this stage include "Angelina" mentioned later in "Real Country Boy" and "I Feel it in my Bones"). Kieran shared a flat in Rathmines, started busking and going to the two "dry" clubs that then existed, The Universal and The Coffee Kitchen, where you could play and hear musicians of every style and standard, including more famously Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Andy Irvine and many more.

Bottleneck Blues Club

The club provides a local venue for enthusiasts of real blues with the intention of offering music of World Class pedigree at fair prices in a relaxed night-club atmosphere where good food and drink could be enjoyed as well as offering the opportunity to meet like minded people. We now run three gigs a month to offer you the best live music venues in The South (The Roffen, Rochester & The Jazz & Blues Café, Maidstone)

Steve Payne

thttp://www.steve-payne.net

The Blue Highway

The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. We owe the blues to those who bore the pain of enslavement behind the frightful shadows of our collective soul. The Blue Highway, then, is dedicated to the men and women who traveled beyond our ignorant place, and to those who could not.

The Lobby Bar - Cork's Premier Music Venue

The Two Timers

The TWO TIMERS formerly had a "Special Info Page" which was part of the Official DR FEELGOOD Website because - like many of you will know - Gordon Russell was guitarist of Dr Feelgood from January 1983 to May 1989. In the meantime he has established an incredible acoustic / electric duo with Sarah James - The TWO TIMERS. They really are unique and make a lot of fans at their shows who are interested in getting to know more information. This made us decide it's time they get an own website.

Fraser Spiers

www.fraserspeirs.co.uk

The String Jam Club

www.vixenrecords.com/sjgalarchive.htm

Rattan and Rush

www.acoustictearoom.co.uk

One of the best small venues in the North West
39 Market Street, Kirby Stephen, Cumbria

Jim Condie

www.jimcondie.co.uk

Jim Condie's skills on electric and acoustic guitar, bottleneck, lap steel and pedal steel have been utilised by many for some twenty-odd years now. In that time, he has played some of the seediest joints the UK has to offer. In that time, he has played some of the seediest joints the UK has to offer. He's played to audiences of 2 and audiences of 20,000...he's recorded with the greats and the nearly greats and the never-will-be-greats and the once-were-greats, with those on their way up and those on their way back down, as well as one or two actually up there at the time!

Musical Styles

http://www.music-styles-list.com/

Acoustic Routes

http://www.acousticroutes.co.uk/