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Blacktop Deluxe guitarist and vocalist Keith Howe is one of the latest to join our FREE WRC membership scheme! Don't forget to go to our Other WRC Promotions page to buy tickets for their Fiddler's Elbow gig on Saturday 14th February. In the meantime, If you want to take advantage of offers such as discounted tickets to our forthcoming Aynsley Lister gig then simply go to our FREE Membership page.

Don't miss our mate Larry Miller tonight who is playing The Eel Pie Club at The Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ. And if you show your WRC Membership card you can get in for just £10. Doors open at 8.30pm with music from 9pm. Don't forget to get your FREE WRC Membership as we will be announcing more WRC ticket discounts shortly!

The Blues Club Podcast is of course Friday's Track Of The Day with lots of new releases received over the holiday period. Looking forward to 2016 Malcolm & Jim have the UK IBBA Presenters' Picks for January, new tracks, new artists, new albums plus a couple of older classic tunes from their collection. Music this week includes Cotton Belly's, Dave Weld and The Imperial Flames, Norman Beaker, Lewis Hamilton, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mike Zito, The Pat Sheridan Band, The Ragpicker String Band, Tim Williams, Walkin Cane Mark, Albert Cummings, The Blues Spiders, Lee Palmer, Chris Yakopcic, Malcolm Holcombe, John McKinley-Band, Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective, Ritchie Dave Porter, Mike Brookfield, Lonnie Mack, Andre Bisson, RG Winfield & Double$huffle, Guitar Shorty, Mark Harrison, Jack J Hutchinson, Michael Messer, Paul Cowley, Catfish (pictured), Long Tall Deb featuring Colin John, B. B. & The Blues Shacks and more!

As promised we have our first batch of pics in our photo gallery here from the awesome 'Corky Laing Plays Mountain' gig at the 100 Club in London on Sunday night. And let's give a mention to support bands Born Healer and The Rainbreakers who were both superb and are also featured in the gallery. Review to follow tomorrow and some more pics hopefully from John Bull plus you have another chance to watch our 'Nantucket Sleighride' Vid Of The Day!

Hands up those of you who didn't know that today's Vid Of The Day was actually released roughly three years before Rainbow had a hit single covering it? Anyway, the WRC managed to snap up the last remaining tickets to see the ex-Argent singer/songwriter at a 'An Evening With Russ Ballard' at the Leicester Square Theatre, London, tonight! And among the legends guests are Kelly Ellis and some guitarist geezer called Brian May. We're soooo excited so watch out for a review over the coming days plus some pics and possibly a vid!

It's fair to say that my very first 'Pop Idol' was indeed David Bowie. 'John I'm Only Dancing' was one of the very first single's I ever bought and is still a staple on my jukebox (along with b side 'Hang On To Yourself') 44 years later. Ouch! Of course that lead me to the album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' and as they say the rest is history as I went back through Bowie's entire back catalogue - the stand-out for me easily being 'Hunky Dory'. The adjective 'unique' is much overused in Rock circles but in Bowie's case it was spot on. Not only was his music and lifestyle different to the traditional 70's fayre but his memorable lyrics still effortlessly roll off the tongue all these years later. He was also the master of reinvention and despite me honestly losing the plot after 'Aladdin Sane' there were still sniffs of the old Bowie that I loved so much in the singles 'Rebel Rebel', 'Heroes' and in particularly 'Ashes To Ashes'. It pains me to say it but we were at the Isle Of Wight festival in 2004 with Bowie playing on the Sunday night (Vid Of The Day) but we never made it (that's another story) - so I never actually saw him live. Although, ironically we did see perhaps my favourite Bowie track of all time 'All The Young Dudes' performed of course by Ian Hunter with Spiders From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson just before Ronson's death in 1993. David you were one cool dude man. AJ.

It's Sunday night's Route 66 show after the night before... host Rory Auskerry has been out celebrating a friends 30th until 4am so anything could happen! So find out when you listen to today's Track Of The Day including new tunes from Billy Gibbons, Federal Charm (pictured), Danny Bryant and Elton John plus classic tracks from Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac and The Who. Anyway, Rory assures us that this show is fully gritted and ready for winter!

To mark the release today of Joe Bonamassa's 'Live At Radio City Music Hall' - AJ was last night at the the very same iconic music theatre in a very wet New York City. Anyway today's Vid Of The Day is JB in action plus our Track Of The Day is the very latest Blues Club Podcast.

On this weeks Route 66 Rory spins two new tracks from veteran rocker Keith Richards plus celebrates World Beard Day! Todays Track Of The Day includes new tunes from Heather Crosse, Chantel McGregor (pictured at BluesRockFest 2015), Thorbjorn Risager, Dave Hunt, Gary Clark Jr., Jerry Lee Lewis, Motorhead, Allman Brothers Bandand Joe Bonamassa. To be honest, the thing Rory is most stoked about this week is the new jingles he's produced for the show! Don't forget that Route 66 is live here every Sunday from 6pm to 8pm on Stockport's Pure 107.8FM.

Not only is Stark's new single 'Tunnel Vision' (which has been released today) our 'Video Of The Day' but you can also download it for FREE! Already one of Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week - the WRC Award winners are also opening open for the amazing Jo Harman in Worthing this Thursday 5th March.

As promised our 'Track Of The Day' is a podcast of Saturday night's excellent 'Rock On The Ridge' with special guest Robin Bibi who has worked with such names as Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Ben.E. King, The Pretty Things and Helen Shapiro. In the two hour show Bob and Jules talk to WRC Award winner Robin about his music and Mr. Bibi also plays some live stuff as well. And there's even a mention for the WRC - talking of which you can still get hold of Robin's performance at last year's Bluesfest on DVD/CD which is available from our merchandise page here!

Supporting Blacktop Deluxe are Loose Moorings - a pack of crafty locals making a splash in the UK with their fearless blues rock ruckus. Things really took off when BBC Radio picked up their soulful track 'Face The Fall' last year. Their debut album treated you to a smorgasbord of expert guitar noodlings tied to an eager Bluesy heart. Tonight heralds the launch party for their new album 'Loose Moorings II' which you can exclusively purchase at the gig for £10 as it is not available to download or buy anywhere else as yet! Although you can get a free download of 'Every Day' here - but be quick as it is only available until tomorrow!