The Blues Club Podcast are not only kindly sponsoring BluesRockFest headliner Stevie Nimmo's set today but they have also produced a preview playing tracks from all the artists appearing at the festival which is today's Track Of The Day. There's also new tracks from Trev Turley & Friends, Seth Walker, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Earl, Kandace Springs, Connie Lush, Devon Allman, Kelly's Lot, Tanya Piche Blues Band, Will Wilde, Rebecca Downes, Duke Robillard, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more.

Well the big day has finally arrived - BluesRockFest at Leo's Red Lion, Gravesend - with doors opening at 2.30pm and Born Healer live on stage at 3pm. And if unfortunately you cannot make it today - we are hoping to bring you live streaming here of all seven bands on the main stage plus possibly the acoustic stage as well. For those going - a final reminder about our free FestiTool app which you download to your phone accessing the stage timings using code kbr16. It's going to be a brilliant day so watch out for our usual coverage of proceedings over the coming days!

If there was a better Summer track released this year than 'Sound Of The Summer' then we've yet to hear it. Anyway we introduced you to Jamie Porter in August - a musician living in North Wales, writing and playing original Blues Rock influenced songs and taking them out live with his band - with a view to releasing an album either later in the year or early 2017. So we were recently delighted to get a tweet from Jamie re: his latest track 'A Girl Like You' - which is today's Track Of The Day!

Pennsylvania US rockers and WRC favourites Crobot release their new album 'Welcome To Fat City' - via Nuclear Blast Entertainment in the UK and Europe today. They also have announced they will be bringing their funkadelic riffs back to UK shores this Autumn - supporting Australian rockers Airbourne (who we saw at Ramblin' Man) on all UK dates including London's Electric Ballroom on Tuesday 29th November which we will be attending. Anyway check out today's Vid Of The Day - in our opinion the stand-out track from the new album - a live version of 'Hold On For Dear Life'.

With just one day to go to BluesRockFest at Leo's Red Lion, Gravesend, this Saturday 24th September - The Marshman will be doing a rundown of all the bands on his Blues On The Marsh show here tonight at 7pm. Also being aired for the first time on the show are tracks from Katie Bradley, Charlotte Marshall and The 45s, 55 Rose Street, Bobby Rush, Lurrie Bell , Phil Bee's Freedom ,Elles Bailey, Lucy Hammond, Stevie Smith' s Sin House and a birthday celebration of 82 years for Larfin' Len! And if you're looking for a gig to go to tonight then the Fran McGillivray Band are playing for free at 9pm at The Pelton Arms, Greenwich or if you want to catch some hard driving Joe Bonamassa/Fleetwood Mac/John Mayall Blues Rock - then the Sloe Train Blues Band are playing at the White Horse in Banbury from 9pm.

Today's Track Of The Day is all the more fitting given Lifetime Achievement award winner Pete Feenstra (sponsored by the WRC) recounts the recent Newark Blues Festival and of course the British Blues Awards. In this two hour special Pete plays tracks from both artists appearing at the event and in the honours list including Willie & The Bandits, Geoff Carne & The Hatz (pictured), Ian Siegal, Jack J Hutchinson's Boom Boom Brotherhood and Nine Below Zero.

We first came across RPWL following a brilliant cover of Steve Hillage's (not Hackett - that's another story) 'Sea Nature'. Anyway RPWL guitarist Kalle Wallner (aka Blind Ego) has taken seven years to complete his third solo effort 'Liquid' - which is today's Vid Of The Day. While 2007’s debut 'Mirror' sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009’s 'Numb' and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of Hard Rock heavily influenced by Metal. 'Liquid' now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged – and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty Hard Rock melodies to brutal Heavy Metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages.

"Just how would four music acts and the seven ladies of burlesque combine? There was already a theoretical affinity between the separate artforms, rooted in the music having heavy innuendo in its roots (and ever since) and burlesque being an assertive celebration of femininity any of the gutsy early Blues ladies would have admired. A third artform - literature - was also represented in the shape of a copy of Richard Wall's entertaining new Blues-soaked novel, Fat Man Blues, which spent the night on the stage, close to the action." Read the rest of Darren Weale's take here on last Thursday's Burlesque and Blues Revue at Camden's Proud plus check out our photo gallery here.

With just 3 days to go to BluesRockFest at Leo's Red Lion, Gravesend, this Saturday 24th September and its running order here - just a reminder that we have our own BluesRockFest Festitool app. Simply download the app 'Festitool' to your phone and use the code kbr16 to locate stage timings etc. for all the bands.

And talking of BluesRockFest - Absolution who appeared at BluesFest in 2013 and 2014 have released a teaser for their new album 'Blues Power' which will be available worldwide on CD and Digital Download via Target Records from next Friday 30th September. Their first single 'Nothing But A Broken Heart' is today's Video Of The Day and you can order your own copy of the album direct from the band here for £13 (plus postage) with every copy pre-ordered before this coming Sunday being personalised and signed by the band!

On this week's Route 66 Track Of The Day host Rory Auskerry is celebrating the winners at this years British Blues Awards as Rory runs through all the categories playing a track from each of the winners. Also on the show is new music from David Grissom, Led Zeppelin, Aaron Keylock and ZZ Top (pictured) plus Rory also takes a look at the music news and marks the birthdays in Rock & Blues.

Having just started a mainland European tour with Steel Panther, WRC favourites Inglorious (who we caught at both Ramblin' Man and Download) have announced a co-headlining run of UK shows with label mates Last In Line including London's O2 Islington Academy on Friday 25th November. Inglorious will also play Planet Rockstock 2016 in Porthcawl on Sunday 4th December.