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http://www.live365.com/stations/tesstify2 The grooviest blues, classic and contemporary electric blues, Jazz, New Orleans, swing, .... Blues groove is an internet radio station which began in February 07 playing mainly contemporary blues and jazz 24/7! I started the station because I'm a music freak from way back. I began collecting records when I was in my early teens. Living in London I got to see a lot of live music too. All the British R & B bands like Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, The Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and many more played regularly at the local clubs. I also was lucky enough to see many of the American blues greats Like Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson live when they played in London! .. My spare money all went on gigs and buying records. I bought lots of vinyl in those days. In my last couple of years at school I had a Saturday job in a record store! I used to visit the import shops in London to get the more obscure US imports! Then for a while when the blues scene died I got into jazz and rock. I saw Hendrix when he first came to London and i was there at the very first Cream gig!I also got to see many of the jazz greats like Miles, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, George Benson and added a lot of jazz to my collection. For quite a few years after that I was busy working, studying and raising kids but then in the early 90's I bought a CD player and began collecting music again! In the early 80's me and my family moved to Australia, living first in Wollongong near Sydney and then in Adelaide. I lived in California for a while in the mid 90's and bought a lot of music there. I visit the US regularly and am on an extended visit right now spending time with my man John Earl Walker. Around eight years ago I began presenting a programme on local radio. I started off playing jazz but then got more into blues when the two blues presenters left the station. Now I play some of each! You can hear some of my programmes on Blues groove. I think I have a pretty good music collection built up over about 46 years so I'd like to share it with you! I'm not really after more music at the moment as I have way more than I can play!!If I find some cool new tunes that really fit the style of the station though of course I'll include them. This site is to connect with people who are interested in the music I play. I play mainly original contemporary blues, lesser known classics, jump blues, New Orleans and groovy jazz. Because I'm a big fan of Hammond organ and have over 200 organ albums there are some Hammond B3 instrumentals in the mix too and a few British bands. I reject more friends than I add because I can't see the point of connecting with people who are not either fans or artists playing the music I love. Whats the point of having 20,000 so called friends on Myspace? So far I've had a great response to Blues groove with many listeners tuning in regularly and adding it to their pre-sets so hope you will tune in regularly too!! Your comments and suggestions are welcome! Enjoy listening to Blues groove!! Tess and John Earl Walker July 06 Cafe Wha NYC 2006 NYC 2006 Tess in Oz 2005 John Earl and Tess at BB Kings NYC June 2008 Tess 1968! John Earl & Tess @ the Sephamore Workers Club SA July 06 Tess and Tony Joe White April 09 http://tesstify.podOmatic.com - - Tess
.. Check out my podcasts with interviews and programme segements: http://tesstify.podomatic.com/

Hi everyone, Here's a link to my podcast: http://tesstify.podOmatic.com See you there! - - Tesstify

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Hi everyone, Here's a link to my podcast: http://tesstify.podOmatic.com See you there! - - Tesstify

Apart from the 1st 3 tracks it's old British blues from my collection going back to 1963