Blues is the Truth
Blues is the Truth is a weekly 2 hour radio show, featuring some of the very best new Blues Music alongside some classic tracks that define the genre. Presented for a decade by Ian McHugh, frontman and guitarist with the band Blues is Truth and compere of the Ealing Blues Festival main stage,
The show is informative, entertaining and sometimes a little different....
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 119 minutes
- Episodes
- 263
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Blues is the Truth 610
Blues is the Truth is back with another show full to the brim with amazing new music, along with a sprinkling of classics too!
With tracks in the show from Bernie Marsden, Private Dicks Band, Gina Si…
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Sun 15 May 2022
Blues is the Truth 609
It's May and the first Blues is truth of the month is keeping up the tradition of being packed, start to finish, with amazing tunes. The new month means a new song remains the same with an absolute d…
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Sat 07 May 2022
Blues is the Truth 608
It's the last show of April and it's just as packed as you'd expect... There's still amazing new music to share, and there are some real classics too. This weeks show features tracks from Muddy Water…
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Sat 30 Apr 2022
Blues is the Truth 607
After a week's break we're back with another full to the brim edition of Blues is the Truth... There's a shed load of new tunes, and a smattering of classics too. Just what you'd expect from your fav…
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Sat 23 Apr 2022
Blues is the Truth 606
It's a new month and there are some amazing new tracks in the show. There's a new Song Remains the Same and an amazing pair of tracks in the Title Track Tango, loads of great new music and some class…
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Sun 10 Apr 2022
Blues is the Truth 605
It's another show that's packed with brand new tunes in this weeks Blues is the Truth... We Start with a classic from Freddie King, and there are other anthems from Keb'Mo', Otis Grand, Buddy Whittin…
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Sun 03 Apr 2022
Blues is the Truth 604
This week's Blues is the Truth is another packed show, and there's a ton of new music for you to enjoy!
We start with Jimmie Vaughan and then take tour through tunes from Mind Adair, The Black Crowe…
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Sun 27 Mar 2022
Blues is the Truth 603
This week starts with a great track from Duke Robillard, and features a great version of Hoodoo Man Blues from Errol Linton. Add in the Title track Tango that features Jonny Lang and Eugene Hideaway …
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Sun 20 Mar 2022
Blues is the Truth 602
Time for another Blues is the Truth, packed with some of the very best blues the world has to offer...
We start with Muddy Waters and on our way to a collaboration between Robert Cray and Keb'Mo' we…
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Sun 13 Mar 2022
Blues is the Truth 691
I love to pack each weeks show with the very best blues I can find and this weeks is genuinely full to the brim...
From Jimmie Vaughan with Omar Kent Dykes through to Quinn Devereaux there are so ma…
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Sun 06 Mar 2022
Blues is the Truth 600
It's the 600th edition of Blues is the Truth, and it's packed with amazing music... just as you would expect!
With tracks from Albert Collins, Elles Bailey, The City Boys All Stars, Freddie King, Ko…
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Sun 27 Feb 2022
Blues is the Truth 599
While the voting may have closed since the first broadcast the main focus on this weeks show is giving you the chance to hear as many of the nominees in the 2022 UK Blues Awards as possible, meaning …
02:00:00 |
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Blues is the Truth 598
From Santana to Joe Bonamassa there's a lot of quality music in this week's edition of Blues is the Truth. Of course we pay tribute to three giants of the community who recently passed away, Sam Lay,…
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Sun 13 Feb 2022
Blues is the Truth 597
Starting a show with Stevie Ray Vaughan and ending it with Fleetwood Mac, things are obviously awesome in this week's show, so what do you put in between? Only the best part of two hours of the best …
02:00:00 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
Blues is the Truth 596
It's time for another packed edition of Blues is the Truth! So much amazing music and most of it brand new!
We do pay tribute to someone who was instrumental in my music and my radio career, the lat…
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Sun 30 Jan 2022
Blues is the Truth 595
This weeks show is once again filled with amazing tunes from some of the finest artists in the blues. Of course there are classics from folks like Guitar Jr, Howling Wolf and R.L. Burnside alongside …
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Sun 23 Jan 2022
Blues is the Truth 594
It's another packed edition of Blues is the Truth with so much new music that it was hard to fit it all in!
There are track in the show from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Elles Bailey, The Unentitled with Tomm…
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Sun 16 Jan 2022
Blues is the Truth 593 2021 Sort of Best Of
This weeks show is our annual musical trawl through the last 12 months... I keep calling it a best of, but there's so much I couldn't fit in that it's really just a sort of best of... The music is am…
02:00:00 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
Blues is the Truth Christmas Special 2021
It's time for the annual Blues is the Truth Christmas Special, with two whole hours of Christmas themed blues, soul and beyond. With classic tracks from legends like Ray Charles, Earl King, Albert Ki…
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Thu 23 Dec 2021
Blues is the Truth 591
It's a show this week that's packed with the classic sounds of the blues, but that doesn't mean it's all old music... There are classics from Muddy Waters, BB King, Mike Bloomfield, Chuck Berry, Alb…
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Sun 19 Dec 2021
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