Sadly only about 15 discerning punters turned up for the gig at Jagz last night.
Despite that they started on time (UK performers please note, no peeping out of the band room to count the house before deigning to appear!). Matt was on first, he described his style accurately as part blues, part singer-songwriter. Despite American Airlines losing their luggage their guitars made it OK so he was playing his signature Langejans acoustic and a National Steel. He opened with his own Things are coming my way and Weekday Blues followed byWoody Guthrie's Vigilante Man Blind Lemon's Deep Ellum Blues his own instrumental Red Square Blues and Django's Tears, finishing with his own New Casey Jones. Matt has an efforless guitar style and a pleasant voice, more Josh White than Bukka White.
Next up was Dan Fox, who played two resonators and a small bodied acoustic and concentarted on pre-war blues (very much my sort of thing). The Adnam's Broadside must have kicked in about then as my notes don't list any titles but he played from the repertoire of Furry Lewis, Willie Dixon, Mississippi Fred, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon and Robert Johnson. A great gruff blues voice and percussive style.
Matt came back to join him on harp for Play with your poodle, lap steel for Big Bill's Key to the Highway and they finished with a 2 acoustic guitar version of Leroy Carr's How Long.
A great evening that deserved a bigger audience. Both men were gracious to the punters and to the sound man (nice to see someone thanking the sound man instead of just complaining!). I bought a CD from both, had a chat with Dan about our mutual affection for Fred McDowell (who influenced his playing especially on Good Morning little schoolgirl) and got a chance to thank Matt as well.
The rest of their itinerary is in John's post, go to see them, and lend them a T-shirt if their luggage hasn't got through Gatwick yet.
If you can't get to their gigs, they're on Paul Jones' BBC Radio 2 Blues Programme next Thursday 29th July (and online for a week afterwards) see:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/jones/

RtS
(No more blues at Jagz till September, sob, sniff)