To get blues on prime time TV and all you lot can do is carp about it.

No carping on my part, but I'm still not one of those people who say that, just because there's so little of a particular musical genre on TV, I ought to be grateful for what is shown, regardless of what it is.

I'm a huge lover of blues - have been for the last 50+ years - and have seen people like Broonzy, Gary Davis, Terry & McGhee, Jack Duprée, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, Memphis Slim, Rosetta Tharpe and others - live. If I really want to see people of that calibre on the screen, I'll go to YouTube, otherwise I have masses of wonderful recordings on vinyl, on CD and on my iPod to listen to.

What I'd really like to see on TV are some serious, in-depth documentaries of blues musicians - there was one on Robert Johnson some years ago - but I think my chances of that are probably approaching nil! :-)