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Clare Free

The Clare Free Band is a rock/blues band fronted by myself (Clare Free) on lead vocals and guitar. I am lucky enough to be backed by the best, hand picked, professional musicians on bass, drums and keyboards. I have many years experience of gigs, touring both in the UK and overseas and recording. I've also been featured both in magazines and on the radio.

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The Stumble

The Stumble are a British Blues Band based in the North West of England. They play a Chicago style Blues.
Members currently include:
Vocals, Paul Melville
Guitar, Colin Black
Guitar, Jonny (Jon) Spencer
Bass, Dave Heath
Saxophone, Simon Anthony
Drums, Boyd Tonner Album Releases:
2006: The World Is Tough

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Dave Kelly

Dave Kelly is a prominent Blues guitarist, born in London Dave first recorded for Tony McPhee on his groundhog series recordings in 1968 on the album Me and the Devil. Tony featured Dave’s sister Jo-Ann Kelly and gave a track for Dave to sing and play on.
At this time Tony McPhee disbanded the groundhogs and with Dave Kelly and his sister Jo-Ann moved over to the John Dummer Blues Band where he recorded two albums 1968 Cabal and 1969 John Dummers Band.

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Paul Jones & Dave Kelly

Both Paul Jones and Dave Kelly are notable British Blues musicians. Both can be found as part of the Blues Band.
In 2007 Paul and Dave recorded two live CDs as a duet. They played mainly standard Blues with Dave on Guitar and Paul on Harmonica, with both artists taking on vocals.

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The Brew UK

Since 2006 there have been excited, often fantastic, rumours among would-be connoisseurs of the underground British rock scene of a trio that has spent three years simmering just beneath the scope of the mainstream, perfecting themselves and preparing the industry for their explosive arrival. Tales tell of a band that boasts a guitarist to rival Hendrix and a drummer so powerful that the very foundations of venues shake under a Bonham-esque assault wherever they perform.

Read more about The Brew UK on Last.fm.

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Sid Sings

'Sid Sings are a deliciously dark and dirty Blues-explosion for the True Blood generation'. One vocal ,one guitar and pounding drums is all Sid Sings need to create their raw alternative Blues sound that has lead critics to describe them as “ A Female Robert Plant fronting The Black keys’. Known for their full on live show they have headlined many London Venues including The Blues Kitchen, The Barfly and The Borderline and have also shared the stage with The Jim Jones Revue ,Hugo Race and The Fatalists ...

Read more about Sid Sings on Last.fm.

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Chicken Shack

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the 1965 by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards) in 1968. Front man and guitarist Stan Webb was born in London in 1946. The group began their blues playing on the Blue Horizon label in a similar style to the early Fleetwood Mac. Singer Christine Perfect left after marrying John McVie (bassist) with Fleetwood Mac. Christine later joined Fleetwood Mac in their second reincarnation.

Read more about Chicken Shack on Last.fm.

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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers are a pioneering English blues band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE. Mayall used the band name between 1963 and '67 then dropped it for some fifteen years, but in 1982 a 'Return of the Bluesbreakers' was announced and it has been kept since then. The name has become generic without a clear distinction which recordings are to be credited just to the leader or to leader and his band. The Bluesbreakers have included luminaries such as:

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