His fifteenth studio album featuring a wide range of Outlaw Blues, Americana, Roots and even Alt-Country influences, Texan Blues-Roots guitarist Chris Duarte releases his new studio album, ‘Ain’t Giving Up', on Friday 14th April via Provogue Records, and Duarte has celebrated the announcement with the release of the twelve-track album’s opener, the super-charged Allman Brother-style riffy Blues-rocker, 'Nobody But You', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Deaf Rat, Pennies By The Pound, exPorter, Docker's Guild and Category VI.

Today's latest Simply Country Podcast Of The Day playlist includes 49 Winchester (pictured), Aishling Rafferty, Andrew Wooten, Tyler Joe Miller, Bailey, Chelsea Berman, Chelsea Evans, Gerry Guthrie, Halava, Holly, Eamonn Jackson, Larissa Uebergang, Garrett Gregory, Mike Morse, Charlotte Young, Marshall McLuhan, Tamara Stewart, Michael Lusk, Jake Williams, Mark Allan Atwood, Steve Bonham and The Long Road, Josie Laver, Jessie Lynn, Phil Hooley, TC Cassidy, Jody Miller, Marian Waldron, Rob McHale and Lauren McCrory.

Following the release of her latest album, ‘NUT’, and with just three gigs of her sixteen-date UK tour still to go in Scotland this week, Les Linyard was at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Tuesday night to capture BRIT Award winning and Grammy®-nominated artist, KT Tunstall, supported by Razorlight's Andy Burrows, so not only check out today Les' awesome photo gallery from the evening, but also watch KT's Video Of The Day of 'Nothing Missing', performed with special guest, Natalie Imbruglia. Her first full UK headline tour since the pandemic, ‘NUT’ (including Burrows on drums), was the seventh studio album by the multi-million selling artist, and the last in a trilogy of albums she began recording and releasing in 2016, with each part of the trilogy relating to the three existential parts of ourselves; KIN = Spirit, WAX = Body and NUT = Mind.

Released yesterday, ‘I Stand’ is a debut album of quintessential classic Hard Rock from the quintet Demons Down, featuring two up-and-comers in vocalist James Robledo (Sinner's Blood) and guitarist Francesco Savino (False Memories), alongside Hard Rock veterans in guitarist Jimi Bell (House of Lords), bassist Chuck Wright (ex-Quiet Riot) and drummer Ken Mary (Alice Cooper), of which the title track is one of today's six of the best 'Frontiers Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by three similarly timed Frontiers releases from The Banishment, Seventh Crystal and Günter Werno, plus two further tracks from Aisles and Carbon County.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day, has another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues and Beyond with More Music and Less Chat, featuring new releases, classic tracks and UK IBBA Presenters' Picks from Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal, Mississippi MacDonald, Harlem Lake, Kaz Hawkins (pictured), DeWolff, The Name Droppers, The Bluesbones, Bad Company, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Pierce Dipner, Jethro Tull, Eric Bibb, Blue Moon Marquee, Catch 23, Bad Daddy and many more.

Ahead of eight UK dates this June for their long-awaited Album Series Tour featuring their 1974 'Relayer' album in its entirety, together with a selection of other classic favourites, Progressive legends, Yes, will be releasing their new studio album, 'Mirror to the Sky', on Friday 19th May, via on InsideOutMusic/Sony Music, and the first track to be taken from the album, 'Cut From The Stars', is today's Video Of The Day. Comprising of longest serving member plus album producer Steve Howe’s dazzling guitars, keyboard wizard Geoff Downes’ impeccable sounds, exquisite melodies and fills, Jon Davison’s angelic, crystalline vocals, Billy Sherwood’s deftly dancing bass and Jay Schellen’s masterfully controlled explosions, on drums, having recently stepped into his late mentor and friend Alan White’s role, it's a collection of high energy, intricate, lush and layered new studio songs for an album which adds to the band’s much heralded legacy, while charting a path to exciting future times ahead.

Martin Turner's ex Wishbone Ash 2023 "Live Dates" tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of Wishbone Ash's seminal 1973 double live album, and not only was Steven C Gilbert at Sutton's Boom Boom Club leg of the tour to capture some great photos in our Photo Gallery, but today's Video Of The Day of 'Warrior' and 'Throw Down The Sword', was filmed earlier on in February at Tielt's Patersdreef in Belgium. Martin formed the first of the Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash touring bands back in 2005. Sadly, in 2013, Andy Powell took legal action to protect the Wishbone Ash registered trademark and prevent Turner from using the name. The court ruled in favour of Andy and Martin's application to appeal was refused. Since 2014 he has toured and recorded as "Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash". The current line-up features Turner (bass/vocals), Danny Willson (guitar/vocals), Misha Nikolic (guitar) and newest recruit Sonny Flint (drums), with the two-part Sutton set list including Set 1: The King Will Come, Warrior, Throw Down the Sword, Rock 'n Roll Widow, Ballad of the Beacon, Baby What You Want Me to Do, Blind Eye and Phoenix, with Set 2 showcasing: Lady Whiskey, The Pilgrim, F·U·B·B, You See Red, Living Proof, Blowin' Free, Doctor and Jail Bait.

With this year's Country 2 Country weekend kicking off at London's O2 Arena today, for today's Podcast Of The Day we go back exactly three years to the day, when we were lucky enough to catch up with Kyle Daniel for an interview, just a few days before his set at that year's C2C Festival weekend, which was subsequently cancelled due to Coronavirus. Anyway, listen again today, as we talked to Kyle about cramp, C2C Berlin, C2C Amsterdam, Red Light districts,The Cadillac Three, his band, The Allman Brothers, the Country melting pot, Rolling Stone, 'What's There To Say', live performances, his Dad, curve balls, time on the road, US v UK audiences, returning to the studio, next UK tour, Led Zeppelin, Big Ben and Canadian tuxedos.

"The unenviable task of following the previous glory fell to 'Focus 7' (always amuses me that it is from the 'Focus 9' album). Introduced as a band favourite to play by Thijs, it gave (particularly) guitarist Menno Gootjes another chance to shine gloriously." That was part of our take the last time we saw 2022 WRC award winning Focus at Chislehurst's The Beaverwood last November, so we were recently delighted to hear of Menno's side project, Dutch Heavy Metal rockers, Black Nazareth, also consisting of bass guitarist Henry Mcilveen (Threnody), vocalist Daniël de Jongh (Textures), keyboardist Martijn Spierenburg (Within Temptation) and new, but well known drummer, Darby Todd (Martin Barre), already with a new self titled mini album under their belts through Italy's Wormholedeath Records, plus another recently released single, 'True Self', which is also one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Iron Jinn, Blade, The Resolve, Trish Discord and Rolla.

For today's Podcast Of The Day, we go back to June 2018, when Orlando’s Thomas Wynn And The Believers opened The Outlaw Country Stage at Ramblin' Man Fair in Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent, and an interview we had with brother and sister Thomas and Olivia after their excellent set. Listen as we talked about their then hugely successful UK tour with The Temperance Movement, their US Tour with Myles Kennedy plus their album 'Wade Waist Deep’ which was released in May 2017 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group and recorded with four-time Grammy award-winning producer, Vance Powell (The White Stripes, Jack White, Chris Stapleton).

Two of the hottest Blues Rock acts have joined forces to embark on what promises to be one of the most exciting co-headline tours in recent years, as critically acclaimed Roots/Blues rockers The Commoners embark on a 15-date UK tour next month with the UK’s King of slide guitar, Troy Redfern, with The Commoners performing tracks from their current album, 'Find A Better Way', plus Troy's latest, 'The Wings Of Salvation', of which The Commoners fourth and latest single taken from the album, the punchy and rollicking, 'More Than Mistakes', not only sees the Rock train rolling on full steam ahead, but it's also one of today's six of the best 'Thursday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Dead Jackals, Edredon Sensible, Elysion, Dez Dare and Highsociety.

Following the release last December of ‘The Trouble Is…25', a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album, ‘Trouble Is…’, five-time-Grammy-nominated guitarist, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his band will be bringing the Blues rocker's platinum selling ‘Trouble Is…’ album anniversary world tour to the UK next month for a run of six special shows (pictured), where they will be playing songs from the iconic album, including today's Video Of The Day, a 2022 re-recording of 'Blues On Black'.