Due to the current Covid-19 lockdown, the 2020 FORM UK Blues Awards will still take place tonight at 6pm as a virtual Awards ceremony here on the Federation's YouTube channel. It will be compered by Blues Legend Paul Jones and feature many high profile guest presenters. Nominations for the Awards were invited from a panel of more than 800 people from across the Blues spectrum in the UK during a two week period in January, and voting was open for two weeks from 3rd February. Good luck to all concerned.

Presented by Rec Rooms, in association with Eel Pie Club, tonight at 9pm there's a Live Stream here featuring Micky Moody (ex Whitesnake) plus Ali Maas. It's a gig you will not want to miss, so please make sure you donate the requested £5 to help musicians and venues. Thank you.

Yesterday, David Crosby (Track Of The Day) digitally reissued, via BMG, CPR’s two studio albums 'CPR' and 'Just Like Gravity', plus the group’s two live albums - 'Live at Cuesta College' and 'Live at the Wiltern'. All four albums will also be available on CD on Friday 31st July. After being a part of two of Rock & Roll’s most foundational bands (The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, respectively), and four years removed from a life-saving liver transplant, David Crosby channeled the creative frustration he had been feeling into CPR’s 1998 self-titled debut. Joined by noted session guitarist Jeff Pevar and Crosby’s recently reunited son James Raymond, the trio crafted smart, heady, Jazz-indebted Rock that showcased their stunning harmonies. They followed that three years later with 2001’s 'Just Like Gravity', an album that refined the burgeoning trio’s sound.

Today's Video Of The Day is 'Monster Railroad' from White Cowbell Oklahoma's 20th annual Xmess show at Toronto's Lee's Palace! Where else would you get to a show with (real) chain saws, an alien, drunk Santa, a county sheriff, Burlesque dancers, oh and a legendary kiss ass Rock 'n' roll band that is White Cowbell Oklahoma? Believe it, it happened, so enjoy it with a beer in your hand. And our Canadian correspondent Moose On The Loose promises that he will drip feed more Dangerous Canadian Content footage over the coming weeks as part of an ongoing campaign, so you have been warned!

Todays Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day is 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, including music from Norman Beaker, Nigel Barker (pictured), Tommy Emmanuel, Marcus King, The Temperance Movement, The James Hunter Six, The Rolling Stones, Heritage Blues Orchestra, Albert King, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland, Red's Blues, The Blues Band, Fruition and many more.

Dinosaur Pile-Up's brand new podcast, 'The Cosmic Barbecue', the first of the on-going series, is now available on all DSP's here. The podcast finds Matt Bigland (vocals, guitar), Mike Sheils (drums) and Jim Cratchley (bass) discussing “everything and anything”, prompted by questions from fans, and is the band’s way of staying connected during the current coronavirus pandemic. Dinosaur Pile-Up recently released their critically acclaimed new album 'Celebrity Mansions' via Parlophone in 2019, to lay claim as one of the UK’s most exciting and talked-about Rock bands on both sides of the Atlantic.

Today's Video Of The Day is 'Gasoline', taken from Crobot's latest album 'Motherbrain', which follows their runaway hit 'Low Life', which peaked in the Top 10 at the US active Rock charts, following a lengthy 29 week run on the Billboard charts. Crobot plan to resume touring to support the album once restrictions for public gatherings are lifted across North America and Europe. Last year the band played a number of headline and supporting shows across Europe and the UK, as well as festival slots at Wacken Open Air, Ramblin' Man Fair and Alcatraz. All future appearance plans will be shared as they become firm.

Having recently signed to Golden Robot Records, the legendary L.A. Guns have released their new single 'Crawl', off their upcoming album 'Renegades'. If there was a band synonymous with the infamous Sunset Strip it is L.A. Guns. Born into a scene that will never be replicated, L.A. Guns rode alongside Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses, Ratt, Poison, Quiet Riot and co. in one of the biggest movements in music history. L.A. Guns are without a doubt Hollywood Rock Royalty, and now, after some down time, the band is back and firing with the return of Kelly Nickels on bass, Steve Riley on drums, Scotty Griffin on lead guitar and Kurt Frohlich on lead vocals and guitar.

Elles Bailey has teamed up with the charity Heroes, which is very close to her heart, by re-releasing her single and today's Track Of The Day, ‘Help Somebody’, to support 'Their Help Them Help Us' campaign which is supporting frontline NHS workers in a variety of ways. Indeed, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic over recent weeks, particularly the last month, has stirred up powerful memories for award-winning, Bristol based singer-songwriter Elles. It took her back twenty-nine years to when she spent her third birthday in an intensive care hospital ward, being kept alive on a ventilator, supported by the NHS and their team of incredible nurses and doctors. The single’s proceeds will go to Heroes but Elles also wants to encourage people to make a direct donation to the charity itself please.

Dion releases his new album 'Blues With Friends' on Joe Bonamassa’s new label - Keeping the Blues Alive Records - on Friday 5th June, and the Rock and Roll legend has just premiered a brand new track 'Bam Bang Boom', featuring lead guitar from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, which is today's Video Of The Day. For this outing, Dion worked with producer Wayne Hood, in whose Florida studio the basic tracks were recorded. Over the course of the last part of 2019 and the first part of 2020, the album began to take shape. Dion had the songs and the collaborators began to reveal themselves. Indeed, 'Blues With Friends' features 13 tracks with special guests including Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Beck, Paul Simon, Van Morrison, Brian Setzer, Sonny Landreth, Joe Louis Walker, Samantha Fish, Stevie Van Zandt and many more.

Another great Rock On The Ridge Lock-Down Track Of The Day today includes The Broken Ravens, Ryders Creed, Fiefdom, Goodbye June, Silverthorne, The Crookeds, Broken Empire, Tainted Lady, Free, Black Whiskey, The Brew, Bad Touch, Shoulder The Sky, No Good Sons, Deadly Shakes, Blackfoot, These Wicked Rivers, Wolftooth, KinStrife, KilliT (pictured), Jordan Red, Blacktop Mojo, Five Finger Death Punch, Mississippi Riot, The Temperance Movementand Sonic Divide.

Asenblut, the powerful Metal armada, is back, in company with another beastie longplayer, 'Die Wilde Jagd', due to be released on Friday 29th May. A worthy successor of 2016's 'Berserker', the Melodic Deathers connect to the predecessor, uncompromisingly, fast, melodious but still with brutal ironess, they call the hunting horns for Viking Thrash Metal. The band has used the past years to harden and to gear themselves up to counterpose the twilight of the Gods with their multi-layered Metal. This time great value is set upon to tell stories, which originated in classical mythology, combined with catchy chorus passages, to take the listener on a journey into a fantastic world.