Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Blues cannot be simply ignored. For quite a while and in the dim and now thankful long since past, it could and had to be, for it was in serious danger of developing a skin so thick that even the greatest and most respectful of criticisms were dealt with by purists as being a snide remark on the whole historic genre. Thankfully the armour has been dropped with the appearance of musicians such as Joe Bonamassa, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Danny Bryant and incredible and numerous others, that the genre is to the lay person and the keen amateur vital and full of passion once more.