"Two fine sets to send everyone home (many via the pub!) happy; it’s what Summer Fridays are for isn’t it?" Further to John Bull's photo gallery of iconic US Blues-Rock guitarist Walter Trout's recent UK tour, ahead of his 30th solo album, 'Ride', due to be released on Friday 19th August via Provogue/Mascot Label Group, today we have Gary Smith's complete take from London's Islington Assembly Hall on Friday 17th June, with support from Elles Bailey, plus today's Video Of The Day of Walter and Elles both jamming together the following night at Holmfirth's Picturedome.

October 2020 saw the release of ‘Everybody Moves, Nobody Gets Hurt’, the fifth LP from The Great Affairs, and now, midway through 2022, the Nashville, Tennessee outfit, now with Corey “Rizzo” Rozzoni (Burden Bros.) on lead guitar, have commenced work on a follow up, as the new material finds the band delivering more of the Pop-infused Classic Rock stylings they’ve become known for, albeit with a slightly harder edge this time around, and on Friday 8th July, in advance of the full-length, the band are releasing their ‘StrangeLuv’ EP, which includes three remixes from the last album, featuring the current line-up, plus two versions of the title track, of which the sweet radio edit is one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Black Reuss, Vante, Celestial Wizard, Groom Epoch and Vice.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day starts and finishes with The Milk Men ahead of their show at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon tonight, with the cream in the middle coming courtesy of new releases from Shemekia Copeland, Catfish, Tom Killner, Kirk Fletcher, Mudlow, Troy Redfern, G. Love & Special Sauce, The Cinelli Brothers, Marcus King, Supersonic Blues Machine and Joanne Shaw Taylor.

WRC award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years listening to, writing about, talking about, and promoting Rock music, with a particular interest in the Blues, and Pete's latest Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring Yerba Buena, David Paich, Dana Fuchs, Christone ‘Kingfish' Ingram, David Sinclair Four, Janiva Magness, Kat Riggins, Michael Jay Cresswell, Gary Hoey (pictured), Eliza Neals with Michael Puwal, Sass Jordan, Concerto Moon, Little Bihlman, plus many more.

After first swaggering onto the stage as lead guitarist with Glam-tinged power popsters, Last Great Dreamers, Slyder Smith now takes centre stage leading his new power trio, Slyder Smith & The Oblivion Kids (featuring Tim Emery on bass and drummer Rik Pratt) in an honest outpouring of grit, glamour and emotion, when they release their debut album, 'Charm Offensive', via Ray Records (Cargo Records) on Friday 19th August, ahead of a UK tour as special guests to groove rockers Electric Boys this August, an album that is a chocolate box of sonic Melodic Rock sensations with diverse Pop smarts that offers up a little something for everyone. including 'When The Rain Comes', which is one of today's six of the best Monday Rocks! Track Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Noisecult, Corvus Corax featuring Doro Pesch, San Quentin, NIK NXK and Evoking Winds.

"You wouldn’t typically regard Basingstoke as being the epicentre of Blues music, or any kind of music really (apologies if it is in fact home to a unique form of Hampshire folk or similar, tap and spoons maybe) but it is hard to imagine that there was anywhere else on the entire planet that hosted anything that matched the combined talents of these two fantastic guitarists on this particular night, the end of an all too short tour by the two artists. What made it all the more pleasurable was to watch and listen to the music outside of London in a venue with decent acoustics and, praise be to the patron saint of photographers, decent lighting." We took in Eric Gales' London O2 Academy Islington gig in March, and it was so good that our prolific WRC correspondent Simon Green went along to see Eric again on the final leg of his latest six-date UK tour at Basingstoke's The Haymarket on Wednesday 8th June, with support from double 2022 UKBlues Awards winner, Dom Martin, so read today Simon's complete take of the night, plus some great photos and today's terrific Dom Martin 'Dixie Black Hand' Video Of The Day.

Playing songs from all three albums as well as new tracks off an unreleased fourth album, next month, Aussie Rockers Massive begin their "10 Years, Still Massive" tour, and for today's Podcast Of The Day we turn the clock back almost exactly five years ago, when we managed to interview singer/guitarist Brad Marr before their set at the Stone Free Festival at London's O2 Arena.

"Although this tour has been a fairly brief one, the good news is that you can relive the experience from June, with the release of the live CD ‘Blues From The Heart Live’ which includes film of the same concert (with guest appearances by Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Joe Bonamassa) on a choice of DVD or Blu Ray. Enjoy!" That was part of our recent take on Joanne Shaw Taylor's April gig at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, and indeed today we have Simon Green's review of that very same album, that was recently released on Friday 10th June, plus her 'Summertime' Video Of The Day featuring Joe Bonamassa.

Written in response to a comment left on a Misty Blues' YouTube Channel during the release of 'Fright Car', from their previous album, 'The Hate', released last Friday, is the latest single by the band, featuring Kat Riggins on vocals and Justin Johnson on guitar, that indeed sheds light on this incident to demonstrate how divisive some people continue to be, of which the track is also one of today's six of the best Sunday Rocks! Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from A Day in Venice, Stonetrip, Immortal Guardian, Dürtbürd and Black Hellebore.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and a bit of this and that, with More Music and Less Chat, featuring The Cinelli Brothers, Big Wolf Band (pictured), The Mystix, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dave Thomas, Travellin Blue Kings, Mavis Staples & Levon Helm, Rory Gallagher and many more.

Recorded at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, acclaimed American Blues guitarist/singer-songwriter Kirk Fletcher’s long awaited seventh studio Blues album, 'Heartache By The Pound', will be released on his newly launched independent label Ogierea Records on Friday 29th July, and Kirk's scorching first single from the album, 'Afraid to Die, Too Scared to Live', is one of today's six of the best 'Saturday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from This Drama, Dez Dare, 3Force, The Damnation Project and Destrania.

"They were playing Bob Dylan’s ‘Corrina, Corrina’ as I had to drag myself away to catch the opening of Van Morrison’s set on the main stage, which turned out to be a surprisingly joyous performance. The veteran singer led his superb band through a no filler set that stayed away from the mystic and concentrated on dance inducing Rhythm and Blues and bangers from the back catalogue: ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’, ‘Symphony Sid’, ‘It Stoned Me’, ‘Think Twice Before You Go’, ‘Gloria’, ‘Jackie Wilson Said’, ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ and so on, one after the other. It was superb." With our esteemed WRC correspondent Mother unfortunately feeling under the weather, our thanks to another esteemed WRC correspondent, Simon Green, for not only completing our coverage of Day 3 at Europe’s premier Americana playground Black Deer Festival, that ended at Kent's Eridge Park last Sunday, but for also adding some great Day 2/3 photos as well, plus check out today's excellent Ida Mae Video Of The Day.