Discover the Best Five UK Blues Singles of 2024: From Joanne Shaw Taylor’s deeply personal heartbreak to Mick Clarke’s funky Latin blues grooves, this list celebrates the year’s most captivating blues tracks, featuring soulful vocals, powerful storytelling, and exceptional musicianship.

Grammy-nominated and seven-time Blues Music Award winner Janiva Magness is back with her latest single, “I Was Good to You Baby,” ahead of her highly anticipated album set for release in Spring 2025.

John Primer teams up with harp master Giles Robson on ‘Ten Chicago Blues Classics,’ out December 6, delivering a high-energy tribute to the timeless spirit of ’50s Chicago blues. With soulful renditions of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Sonny Boy Williamson tracks, the duo’s seamless interplay and technical prowess breathe new life into these iconic songs.

Paul Thorn announces his new album set for release on February 21 via Thirty Tigers. The album reflects Thorn’s six-decade journey through life and music, offering soulful, bluesy insights in tracks like the lead single “Tough Times Don’t Last” – out today!

The video for “Things They Tellin’ You” from Robert Connely Farr’s ‘Pandora Sessions’ captures the universal weight of suffering and the blurred lines between truth and deception. Directed by longtime collaborator Jay Bundy Johnson, the visual pairs Farr’s melancholic, minimalist blues with haunting footage from the Prelinger Archive.

The Old Ceremony’s new album ‘Earthbound,’ forged through two decades of collaboration and a vast collection of songs born from the pandemic, is out now!

Frontman Django Haskins reflects on the band’s growth, the ongoing joy of making music together, and his Big Star tribute work. “Getting to know and play with so many people who had previously existed only on my turntables has been a thrill. Mike Mills played and sang on our last record… None of this would’ve happened without the Big Star thing, and — to give credit where it belongs — without the quixotic genius of Chris Stamey, who put the whole thing together, along with Big Star’s Jody Stephens.”

‘The Sound Of Muscle Shoals’ out March 7, 2025 on Compass Records!

In a thrilling tribute to the late Dr. John, fans worldwide can now experience his solo performance from the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1986

“Gentle On My Mind” from Richie Arndt’s new album ‘Tennessee & Alabama – Songs Along The Road #2’ beautifully reimagines the timeless John Hartford classic, famously popularized by Glen Campbell.

The band’s latest single, “50 Years (Since I Had The Blues),” blends personal experience with atmospheric blues, drawing from the magic found in everyday moments.