Playing solo blues slide guitar in support of Danny Bryant's RedEyeBand Saturday 26th Feb

Richard Newman is an acoustic blues finger picking and slide virtuoso who has worked with many of the leading figures in the British blues and rock scene over the past 30 years. Richard has been teaching guitar in seminars and privately for over 20 years.

Richard is also an established journalist and broadcaster. He wrote and presented his own Channel 4 documentary on blues guitar called Living With The Blues. Richard went on to write the book on the Making of Tubular Bells, the definitive book on one of the biggest selling albums of all time. He has also written books on John Mayall, and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Richard has worked with, played with, produced or rubbed shoulders with many great figures in the history of British rock and blues.

Download a free mp3 of Richard Newman and Mark Wingfield playing together. This is a recent recording for a project they are working on called Music For Films, where they are working together as musicians and producers.

To hear Richard's Blues Guitar visit the Pink Blues website here.

Press about Richard:
"Veteran bluesman of the London Blues scene"
"Richard has been involved with many journalistic, radio and TV projects with British Blues over the years"
"Frantic passionate electric playing... complimented by his laid back acoustic blues guitar" The Blues CD Store

•In the early 70's Richard put together a number of seven hour live radio shows for Capital Radio in London, featuring Alexis Corner, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Long John Baldry, Geoff Bradford, Brian Knight and John Joyce.
•Shortly after this, Richard produced and mixed a series of albums for the "Black Lion" jazz label.
•At the end of the 70's, Richard put together an album featuring Brian Knight that included performances by Peter Green and Charlie Watts plus saxophone from Art Theman and Dick Heckstall Smith as well as Geoff Bradford on electric lead guitar.
•In recent years Richard has had a major interview with Peter Green which was published in Guitarist Magazine, and also wrote a feature on the London Blues scene.
•Richard wrote and presented his own television documentary "Living With the Blues" for Channel Four.
•Richard wrote the book "The Making Of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells". He also wrote, along with Dave Laing, a book about the Cambridge Folk Festival.
•Richard has just released a CD called "London Life" which is available on iTunes and features songs about London, some of which were originally filmed by Thames Television in the early seventies and others were part of a demo session which Richard did for Pete Townshend of The Who, who encouraged him to write songs about Battersea, where Richard grew up.