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PhoenixFM Blues Nights at Pam’s Bar To coincide with PhoenixFM’s forthcoming RSL, Digital Blues promoted some top class Blues Nights at Pam’s Bar at the Essex Arms, Warley Hill, Brentwood which took place each Friday in February. The excellent line-up was as follows: Friday 3rd February The Incredible Blues Puppies
Photo courtesy of the Incredible Blues Puppies
Read Digital Blues' Review of this gig here
Friday 10th February The Sonny Black Band Sonny Black was one of the sensations of last year’s Digital BluesFest and has been voted guitarist of the year after year. Sonny ‘Without doubt one of the finest blues guitar players in the country, Sonny Black is well known for the subtlety and skill of his approach to blues guitar as well as his fine band.’ (Boogaloo Promotions) 'Not only is his technical mastery of both acoustic and electric instruments complete, he also possesses that quality that can only be called blues soul.' Blueprint. Photo courtesy of Alan Harvey
Friday 17th February Sam Kelly’s Station House Sam Kelly’s Station House are a superb, relatively new band featuring the inimitable Root Jackson on vocals with bass player Spy, TJ Johnson on guitar, the virtuoso young keyboard player Paul Jobson and multi award-winning drummer and band leader Sam Kelly. A knock-out band and a sensational blues experience with Caribbean influences who have just released an excellent CD and are rightly creating quite a stir wherever they play. '...Let's be honest, if you've got Sam Kelly at the back and Root Jackson at the front you can't really go wrong!' Blues in Britain Jan 2005. Friday 24th February The Essex Delta Blues Revue
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A new band comprised of four highly experienced musicians with an unmatchable pedigree - Alan Glen (Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero, the Barcodes, Little Axe), Dino Coccia (
makes a very welcome return to Essex to lead his band - P
To round off this short series of gigs, two of the top bands in Essex combine for a unique show which is 
more than the sum of its parts. Described as a seamless musical journey through country, roots, blues, soul, rock & funk, the revue features the multi Digital Blues award winning Rockin’ Armadillos and the sensational Swamp Cats – “There’s never been a blues-roots show quite like this…..don’t miss it!” Unfortunately, due to frontman,Tim Aves, health problems, it was a slightly depleted Rockin' Armadillos that appeared. In addition, Swamp Cats bass player Chris Barrow, was also an absentee as he had been taken poorly on his way to the gig. Owen Barry stepped in playing bass for the band. Despite all this it was a really great evening, at last with a half decent audience, and my thanks go to all the band members, to the audience and to the temporary management of Pam's Bar/the Essex Arms who kept us going!
