Cerys' Blue Horizon

[will vine]

Stumbled across Cerys Matthews little tribute to the british blues label Blue Horizon this morning on Radio 4. Not startling, but a cute little programme that could've sounded great given more time to fill with music. A few good anecdotes and including an interview with Mike Vernon. Many of my past, now valuable records passed before me. I particularly remember wearing down the vinyl on a Blue Horizon sampler called How Blue Can We Get? which included items by lesser noted performers like Jellybread, and Bacon Fat. Googling them both again now in idle curiosity I came across this by Jellybread (featuring Pete Wingfield).
O.K. Bobby Bland cannot be beaten but this sounds great to me.

http://youtu.be/MUbjf-dKDj8

[garth cartwright]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jqjl7

Nice programme with Vernon saying of Peter Green "no one played so few notes and made them say so much". What music and what players!

[matt m]

I enjoyed it too, but one thing I thought was strange was that they didn't mention Duster Bennett.

(The best British blues musician there has ever been)

Well, I suppose they didn't mention Gordon Smith either, but he's less interesting in my opinion.

Seemed particularly surprising given Cerys Matthews was presenting, and Duster was born in Wales