The Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day returns for the first time in 2018 with another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues with More Music and Less Chat, featuring New Releases, Classic Tracks, UK Independent Blues Broadcasters Association Presenters' Picks and much more. Music this week Includes tracks from Rag ’n’ Bone Man, FreeWorld, Downchild, Jack J Hutchinson (pictured), Dan Burnett, Mississippi MacDonald, Nathaniel Rateliff, Cash Box Kings, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Benny Turner, The Hitman Blues Band, Malaya Blue, Joe Cocker, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Bonnie Raitt, Kaz Hawkins, Wily Bo Walker, Shaun Murphy, Katie Bradley & Chris Corcoran, Mindi Abair, Dave Ferra, Elles Bailey, Dan Doiron, Lucy Zirins, Sam Kelly's Station House, Melissa Etheridge, Mr. Sipp "The Mississippi Blues Child", Altered Five Blues Band, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more.

"This was deliciously backed up by ‘Cheap Sunglasses’ and ‘Chartreuse’ - building up to the final big hitters, 'Just Got Paid' (Joe Bonamassa's staple cover), ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ and ‘Legs’. No 'Rough Boy' and no Jeff Beck joining them this time on their first encore ‘La Grange and ‘Tush’ but hey you can't have everything! Although encore number two of Elvis' 'Jailhouse Rock' somehow ended abruptly with no "good night" from the bearded wonders, possibly because of the fight that erupted between two neathandtertal's behind us. How on earth can you end up fighting at a ZZ Top gig? Anyway, the set list was virtually the same as two years ago and in a way it is more of a performance or a show than a gig, which perhaps to an extent impacts their vocal rapport with the crowd - but hey, at the end of the day, it doesn’t get much better than this! So that was it. Ramblin' Man Fair over for another year as we made our way home out of Mote Park with post-festival depression due to kick in the following morning. Yet another great weekend of live music - and as one famous American once put it - "I'll be back!" That was part of AJ's 2017 Ramblin' Man Fair review and not unexpectedly that brilliant weekend last July has won our 2017 WRC Award for Best Festival for the second year running!

If you needed further affirmation that Black Country Communion do indeed fill that 70's live void vacated by Zeppelin, then we hope you were there last night to witness Hughes, Bonamassa, Sherinian and Bonham's two hour set at London's Hammersmith Apollo. OK - their chequered history as a result of their pinkies being in numerous musical pies doesn't see them touring very often (this was the second and last date of their UK tour) - but when they do - you savour every moment. Anyway, with a review and more pics to come, check out today's 'Song Of Yesterday' Video Of The Day.

Following on from the news that Magic - a kind of Queen - had won our 2017 WRC Best Tribute award - we suppose it's no surprise that Queen + Adam Lambert have now also walked off with our Best Rock Performance award gaining a massive 61% vote from our members! Indeed today's Video Of The Day is taken from their awesome gig at London's O2 Arena (pictured) just over three weeks ago. Watch out tomorrow for the winner of our Best Festival award!

'A Decade Of The Mad Axeman' is a retrospective collection out on Friday 26th January that documents the studio and live output of the renowned German guitarist Michael Schenker between 2007 and 2016. From his return to the roots of MSG through to Temple of Rock and Michael Schenker Fest, the different group line-ups and special guests have attested to the stunning power of his creativity, while critics have unanimously considered the last decade to be one of the most impressive phases of his career to date.

"However, BCC's strength is that their sound is fixed firmly in the mid 70s, and so their songs already sound classic. And so as the band rattle through tracks from both of their albums, the crowd devours them as if they've always been there, with each solo greeted by a huge cheer, the choruses sung loudly and the fists raised at all the right moments. A spectacular 'Song Of Yesterday', a blistering 'One Last Soul', a beautiful 'Save Me' and a breakneck rendition of 'The Outsider' are particularly noteworthy in a set full to the brim with highlights." That was part our take on Black Country Communion way back in July 2011 at London's High Voltage (pictured) and the boys are back in town tonight at Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo!

Y.O.U.N.G have recently released a video for their brand new single ‘Exposure’ (today's Video Of The Day) which features the band performing the track throughout a number of locations, from huge colourful backdrops to dark urban settings. In support of the new single, the Manchester collective have announced their first ever UK headline tour through Live Nation. The band will play five-dates calling at Glasgow, Birmingham, Newcastle, London's Camden Assembly on Sunday 4th March and Manchester.

Congratulations to Rock On The Ridge who have won our WRC Best Radio Show award for the third year running. To celebrate, today's Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day originally broadcast last Saturday looks back at a few of the great tracks released in 2017 including Wayward Sons, Blacktop Mojo, At The Sun, Wicked Stone, Massive Wagons, Inglorious (pictured), The Dust Coda, These Wicked Rivers, JacksonHewitt, Sainted Sinners, Dead Man's Whiskey, The Black Thunder Revue, Kill For Eden, Road Away, Long John And The Killer Blues Collective, The Cruel Knives, Jupiter In Velvet, Artful Candid, Rust on the Rails, The Spiritual Machines, Blackwater Conspiracy and Smithradio.

Talking of At The Sun, the band are supporting Rock 'n Roll stand-up comic and author Pete K Mally on the Birmingham and Bristol legs of his 2018 Live N Loud - For Those About To Laugh tour! We originally bumped into Pete in the gents (cut out the toilet humour please) when we saw Living Colour and Stone Broken at London's ULU in October and then saw him host Progtoberfest 2 at the end of the same month in Balham (pictured). Needless to say we will be catching Pete when he stops off at London's Leicester Square Theatre on Saturday 17th February - a tour that also includes Epsom, Leicester and Nottingham.

Another nominee in the Best Unplugged category in our 2017 WRC Awards is Erja Lyytinen. Well the good news is that Erja is returning to the UK in March as part of a nine gig Ladies Of The Blues triple headline tour also featuring Kyla Brox and the Connie Lush Band, which stops off at London's Under The Bridge on Friday 23rd March.

Talking of radio shows and CD's, today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day is a very special show with a countdown of the Top 12 Albums Of The Year as voted for by The Independent Blues Broadcasters Association. Just hit the play button and listen to tracks from Taj Mahal & Keb Mo, Brent Hutchinson Band, Thorbjørn Risager and The Black Tornado, Eric Bibb, Popa Chubby and more!

We're off to see Black Country Communion at Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo in London this thursday, so it's fitting that today we announce that BCC (Video Of The Day) are the winners of our Best Reviewed CD in our 2017 WRC Awards. Polling 36% of the vote, they are our second winners to be announced following Magic's success as Best Tribute with Best Radio Show the next to be announced tomorrow.