WRC Award winners Stark have won a competition to open for Jo Harman next week in Worthing on Thursday 5th March. Have a listen to Jo's amazing voice on our 'Video Of The Day' - testament to why she is one of the headliners at this year's London BluesFest at the O2 in November! Understandably, Stark are not only well-pleased to be opening for Jo but they will also be releasing their exciting new single 'Tunnel Vision' here, as a free download next Monday 2nd March.

It's becoming more and more apparent to us at Wrinkly Towers that our members are certainly a talented lot. Take for example North Wales based UK songwriter/guitarist Phillip Foxley who is todays 'Introducing ...' feature and is also our 'Track Of The Day'. Phil has a long background of musical experience spanning back to the 1970’s where he got his start not only gaining experience live on stage but as an accomplished studio session player as well. With an influence ranging in diversity from David Bowie to Black Sabbath to Mountain along with a number of the Blues greats, he has formed his own signature sound of Blues/Rock music. He has recently released a home studio demo EP sampler entitled 'One Song Is All You Need..' and his intention is to release a professionally recorded debut album early this year.

Today's Black On Blues Track Of The Day features tracks from AK James, James Buddy Rogers, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, Laurence Jones (pictured), Roadhouse, AG Weinberger and Andy Gunn.

With just 4 days to go to BluesRockFest at Leo's Red Lion, Gravesend, this Saturday 24th September - the bad news is that there will be no WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge broadcast this Saturday - although the good news is that hosts Bob & Jules will be interviewing all the BluesRockFest bands in the 'Blues Room'. Anyway last Saturday's show is today's Track Of The Day featuring KilliT, RavenEye, Crobot, Royal Blood, Massive Wagons, Bad House, Mason Hill, Bleeker, Highly Suspect, Greenleaf, Preacher Stone, John Verity, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Andrew Stockdale, Vanilla Women, Mount Holly, Bridge To Mars, The Mission, King King (pictured), Massive plus on their 'Introducing Stage' Pot Kettle Black!

Tonight it's a case of knowing your 'North from your South' as there are two great gigs taking place either side of London. Blues At The Woodlands at the Woodlands Art Centre, Gillingham ME6 2DU feature The Grimms (Vid Of The Day) with their hard driving, high energy British R&B with that 'feelgood factor'. Tickets are £10 and doors open at 7.30pm. For more information call 0300 065 8210 or e-mail r&abrother@aol.com and don't forget that WRC members get £2 off the normal admission on production of a valid WRC members card. Meanwhile, the WRC have plumped for The British Blues Exhibition Live presents The Burlesque and Blues Revue, a night of burlesque and music from across Blues history to the very latest tunes at The Proud in Camden. Tickets £10 on the night and again WRC members get 50% off on production of a valid WRC members card!

The eagerly anticipated shoot-out on the banks of The Thames had nothing to do with the Fulham v. Stoke Cup tie being played at The Cottage last night! No, the real deal was at The Half Moon, Putney, as the Blues Rock of support band Southbound took on the Classic Rock of Shooter at their 'Recycled Teenagers' launch party - very appropriate for the WRC! Anyway, were Shooter loud, dirty, fun and raunchy and did Southbound live up to their reputation as an extremely talented up and coming band? Well for starters take a gander at today's Vid Of The Day with more pics, vids and a review to come over the next few days!

"We were then into ‘LIL’ territory with the groovy and foot-tappin’ ‘Tappin’ On The Glass’ and just to prove they could mix it up ‘I Am The Fool’ with its neat Country riff (originally written by Landreth Senior no less) cemented the strength of ‘LIL’ after just two tracks. The groove of ‘Made Up Mind’ was followed by the album’s title track (see Vid Of The Day), Joey preferring live electric to acoustic on the album – although still the same result – perfect. A couple more covers were thrown in for good measure: Lyle Lovett’s ‘If I Had A Boat’ and John Hiatt’s ‘Alone In The Dark’ – the former an enchanting acoustic/harmony gathering – the latter nailed – again despite no keys. Rhino and Dave were the archetypal spine of the band - with Rhino chipping in with a bit of banter whilst Dave proved later in the set that his brother was not the only one with great vocals!" For the rest of AJ's The Brothers Landreth review go here

Whatever you are doing tonight - make sure you tune in to Rock On The Ridge here at 8pm as Bob & Jules are broadcasting a BluesRockfest special! We understand the guys will not only be featuring interviews with all the bands from that brilliant day but they will also be complementing it with music from those very same bands! And the good news for you guys down at Ramblin' Man is that the podcast will be our Track Of The Day later this week!

Each week Jenn posts her radio show playlist on Jukin' Jenn's Bucket of Blues Public Group page here. You can listen to Jenn on Sundays at 7pm GMT, 1pm Central and 2pm Eastern - repeated at 1am GMT, 7pm Central and 8pm Eastern - or you can listen to our Track Of The Day which is Jenn's latest podcast featuring tracks from Deb Seitz, Jackie Payne, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy, Billy Boy Arnold and more!

Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album 'The Rise Of Jimmy Silver' in 2013 and last years UK/European tour with American rockers Y&T - Bournemouth hard rock five- piece Voodoo Vegas will release their new EP 'Hypnotise' on Monday 12th October. The new EP features four tracks of pumped up, high voltage rock n' roll that will please anyone that's a fan of hard rock music. Laying down a foundation of essential classic rock, Voodoo Vegas (our Vid Of The Day) have stripped away their sound and put the pieces back together to create a collection of music that is modern, fresh and demands it be turned up, loud!

Andre Bisson Rhythm & Blues Experience Cello and Trumpet player Loretta Hale kindly favourited our WRC tweet ahead of their gig last week at the Tuesday Night Music Club (picture courtesy of Rockrpix)! Anyway, you can now listen to both Andre and Loretta on Richard Dunning's Blues On The Radio show, recorded before the gig, which is today's Track Of The Day. Of course Richard also plays the best of the new releases, all the tracks up for 'Song of the Year' in the British Blues Awards plus gives you a heads up on where to see the best Blues!

And talking of Ramblin' Man - a final reminder folks for those of you driving down today. Scopyons (the Scorpions Tribute Band) are at The Rafters, Maidstone, tonight but not on stage until 10.30pm to allow those coming from afar to all to get checked in to your hotels and get down for a good Ramblin' Man Fair warm up show! Anyway to let you know what you are in store for Friday and Saturday night - listen to our Track Of The Day!