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Richard Dunning's recent Blues On The Radio guest - ahead of his solo show at The Tuesday Night Music Club - was Rosco Levee (pictured). As well as Rosco having a chat and playing some of his favourite music, our Track Of The Day includes tracks from Cream, Half Deaf Clatch, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones!

Dirty Thrills, an ambitious, explosion of anthemic goodness, have recently released their ‘Sweetheart of the Slums’ EP featuring classy and original Rock ‘n’ Roll that will grip you from the very first hearing and simply refuse to let go! Consequently our Vid Of The Day is their single ‘HourGlass‘ from the EP - which is hard hitting, energy fuelled and not for the feint-hearted! Having just packed out performances at The Great Escape and Camden Rocks, Dirty Thrills unique, incendiary blend of rocked out rhythms, scorching solos and lung-busting blues laden vocals are churning out crowd belters while making guitar music sexy again!

As the saying sort of goes - no Jam today but Jam tomorrow! Yes it's a first for the WRC as we see the 'Modfather' Paul Weller (see Track Of The Day) supporting who else but The Who at BST tomorrow. Widely considered to be one of the UK’s greatest song writers, he has just released his second best of compilation ‘More Modern Classics’ with a new album due in 2015. Weller has had a lifelong relationship with The Who, citing them as an early influence, covering their songs whilst in The Jam and playing with both Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at Teenage Cancer Trust shows.

On the day the WRC celebrated our 600th Twitter follower - it was good to hear from both Kaz Hawkins and Karena K who have both been deservedly nominated in this years British Blues Awards. Kaz - showcased in our 'Introducing...' feature here in April has been nominated in the 'Emerging Artist' category whilst Karena K's song with Willy Bo Walker 'Long Way To Heaven' (our Track Of The Day) has been nominated as 'Best Song'. Voting closes here on August 31st. Don't leave it too late!

"On a hot summers day in the midst of a line-up featuring guitar driven Rock and Blues sat the name ‘Little Devils’. To some who had not previously seen them they may have appeared the odd one out, but then that’s what Little Devils' are all about. Refusing to be slotted into a genre, yet dragging the Blues kicking and shouting onward they actually appeared today to revel in their difference." Read the rest of Mr. 'Blues On The Radio' Richard Dunning's BluesRockfest Little Devils Band review here.

Pleased to report that thanks to it being our Track Of The Day last week (of course) last Sunday's Route 66 podcast reached the heady heights of number 9 in the Mixcloud Blues Charts! So we suppose it's only appropriate that Rory Auskerry's broadcast tonight here on Pure Radio 107.8FM at 6pm will be a British Blues Awards special! And don't forget that voting closes here on Monday 31st August so don't leave it too late!

Sadly Wrinkly Towers understands that The Marshman will not be attending BluesRockfest this year! That's the bad news - but the good news is that Kevin Beale's Blues On The Marsh show is on air tonight here at 7pm on Channel Radio! No doubt Kev will also be doing us proud by playing a few BluesRockfest orientated tracks in his playlist!

The bad news is that Rock On The Ridge is off the airwaves on Saturday. But the good news is that this is because Bob and Jules will be Rockin' out at BluesRockfest plus interviewing all the superb bands for a future show plus our special forthcoming BluesRockfest Wrinklycast! And the news gets even better as today's Track of the Day is ROTR's storming broadcast from last Saturday featuring amongst others Rainbow, Broken Witt Rebels and Voodoo Sheiks (pictured).

Just one week to go now until the WRC breakout (see our Video Of The Day) for our first outdoor gig of the Summer. Yes we're off to see the Foo Fighters return to Wembley Stadium for the first time since their record breaking shows of 2008. Not only that but we will get an exclusive treat with both the legendary Iggy Pop and the critically acclaimed Royal Blood on the bill. Give us a shout below if you're going as well!

With exactly a month to go now to BluesRockfest at the Red Lion, Gravesend on Saturday 4th July we suppose it had to happen sooner or later - yes we have set up a hashtag for the event: #BluesRockfestGravesend So please start spreading the word by either including it in your tweets or by re-tweeting. And if you want to follow the WRC on twitter then simply go here! Tickets for Bluesrockfest are on sale here for £15 in advance (£18 on the door).

Bob & Jules will no doubt once again pull out all the stops in order to better last week's Rockfest of a show. So if you just want a night in listening to great Rock music then tune in to Rock On The Ridge between 8pm and 10pm here tonight!

Normal service returned to Blues On The Marsh on Channel Radio last night with The Marshman himself - Kevin Beale. As promised our Track Of The Day is a bumper edition including special live guest in the studio - Blues singer/guitarist Martin McNeil (pictured)!