Blues Unlimited

Blues Unlimited (ISSN 0006-5153) was a British monthly music magazine dealing with all aspects of blues music. Co-founded in 1963 by Simon A. Napier (not to be confused with Simon Napier-Bell) and Mike Leadbitter, it was - along with its later American counterpart Living Blues - considered one of the premier magazines for blues music. It adopted the name of an earlier magazine published by Max Vreede in the Netherlands, which had ceased publication.[1]

The magazine launched in April 1963[2] as a typed, mimeographed pamphlet; its last issue (#148/149), by then a full-fledged photo-offset production, was published in the winter of 1987[2] and edited by Mike Rowe.[3]

Notes and references

  1. Steve Cushing, Pioneers of the Blues Revival, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252096207, 2014, p.170
  2. W. K. McNeil (18 October 2013). Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-135-37707-6. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  3. Paul Garon: Historiography.- in Edward M. Komara (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Blues. Taylor and Francis (Routledge), 2005, 1440 pp., ISBN 0-415-92699-8
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