The final Paul Jones hosted Blues programme came to an end last night - 32 years of a hour a week of Blues and related on BBC R2.
Although I hadn't listened since the beginning(!) I had been a regular for past 10 years as the newer modern rockier sounds became regulars and allowed me to hone licks from otherwise unknown to me bands and players.
I also took a large amount of historic references from the programme into my teaching to help younger players see the links and necessary homage to be paid to the past.
Although latterly Paul Jones seemed to have developed a habit of tripping over his tongue in his mouth! he nonetheless was an apt host for not only the show but also British Blues.
Monday evenings 7pm will just not be the same.
Cheers Paul.
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Blues definitely has it's place on radio. And you, Paul Jones, will be sadly missed. Good luck with whatever you do next.
It'll be interesting to see how long the Mayo/Wiley show lasts. The Johnnie Walker Rock show sounds like it'll be good though. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/radio-2-spring-schedule
I can stomach Mayo, but the smugness will go off the chart when Wiley joins the mix.
My name on here first got used as EricTheWeary on the short lived forum for the blues show, so you all have him to thank for me ( sort of).
I’ve seen The Blues Band, I think, three times including on my 40th birthday. Highly enjoyable and their early stuff still sounds fantastic.
https://youtu.be/qxVHHCo-mpQ
R2 seem to be doing a bit of a reshuffle. My other favourite, for different reasons, is a completely different type of program, Sara Cox's Sounds of the 80s (shows my age!).