Red hot and Blue sisters

BluesCaravan2016‘Blue Sisters’ is this year’s title for the RUF Records Blues Caravan Tour that rolled into Bonn on Sunday.  Following on from last years ‘Guitars with Guitars’ though perhaps  ‘Maidens with Microphones’ would have been more in keeping?.  Certainly there was Blues in the music, but none of these girls was playing it Bessie Smith style.  Texan girl Tasha Taylor had the roots of her Soul star  father Johnnie’s sound to draw on, Finland’s Ina Forsman made more than a passing nod to Reggae in her set and Layla Zoe’s closer was clearly tilted firmly in a Rock direction.

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