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[email protected] associates 2 Brook Meadow TWITTER: THE SOUTH EX8 4HH @bluesinthesouth Feel the power! JANUARY 2016 JAZZJAZZ -- BLUESBLUES -- ROCKROCK && ROLLROLL -- ZYDECOZYDECO -- GOSPELGOSPEL -- BLUESBLUES ROCKROCK HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL BiTS READERS SOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE EDITOR, FOR THE NEW YEAR have been a blues fan for almost as long as I can remember. My love of blues music sprang from the upsurge of interest in American roots music (including old Country Music and Gospel as well as Blues) generated by Ithe skiffle craze which was fronted, in the main, by Lonnie Donegan, but owed its existence to Chris Barber and Ken Colyer who ran skiffle groups that were an integral part of their bands. The bands (and there were dozens, if not hundreds, of them) played music firmly based in the traditions of the American south, in particular, New Orleans. The music was then and is now, in Uncle Sam’s Fair Land, known as Dixieland, but in the UK it was called ‘Trad’. Importantly, skiffle produced a plethora of young (mostly) men who developed an interest in and a life long love of the blues. The number includes, leading Northern Irish musician Sir Van Morrison and British blues pioneer Alexis Korner, as well as Ronnie Wood, Alex Harvey, and Mick Jagger; folk musicians Martin Carthy, Ashley Hutchings (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band) and the late John Renbourn; rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower, and David Gilmour.