The other week I made a Spotify playlist to prove to someone that blues in Britain was not all people trying to ape Eric Clapton or Robert Cray.

I cheated slightly, in that some people in the list are more "old-time Americana" than blues. But then again, you could say the same thing for plenty of Mississippi John Hurt or Rev Gary Davis or Pink Anderson material. Or Robert Johnson's song 'Hot Tamales'.

The blues was never just about a 12-bar three-chord progression thing; it was only really electric blues that set that in stone. Proper old blues fingerpickers are much more harmonically sophisticated than they're given credit for.

But I digress...

have a clicky:

Spotify playlist of new(ish) British blues