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The Blues Band's third album, Itchy Feet , were originally released in 1981. Itchy Feet was in the U.K. Top 60 album chart for three weeks and was the band's third album to chart within an 18-month period. This release is a part of BGO's continuing reissue program of the Blues Band's original albums.The album contain two bonus tracks.

Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher - The Blues Band - are seen here in the intimate surroundings of The Fisher Theatre, Bungay. In 1979 the band marked the start of their career with the release of their Official Bootleg Album: thirty years later they have revisited that album to create The Official Bootleg DVD.

Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher - The Blues Band - are seen here in the intimate surroundings of The Fisher Theatre, Bungay. Bungay Jumpin' features interviews with the band members.

Interesting, well played album which draws stylistically from the Dave Edmunds Rockabilly revival school and the British 70's pub rockers a la Brinsley Swartz and co as much as it does from classic American Blues…

The Blues Band's new studio album 'The Rooster Crowed' confirms that the musicians - Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Gary Fletcher and Rob Townsend - after nearly forty years together, have lost none of their passion, nor expertise for the blues music they love. Twelve tracks, nine of them brand new original songs written within the band and three rearrangements of traditional blues songs, recorded over a three day period last year, prove this - just listen!

The album was recorded as a tribute to the late great Ray Charles. 14 of the tracks are directly associated with him with the fifteenth track a song by Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness about the influence Ray Charles had on them and their careers in music. The lead vocals are by Paul Jones, Dave Kelly and Tom McGuinness and the feature of the album release is a large poster giving information about Ray Charles, The Blues Band and the 5 members of the Blues Band.