Listen To “Up Close With The Blues” The best way to hear what an “Up Close With The Blues” show sounds like, is to listen to his 2024 all acoustic album “Seven Blues Classics” recorded at one of Robson’s subsequent sold out “Up Close With The Blues” shows in the UK. It is available on all streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music.

The album topped the UK blues radio charts at No1. for the whole month of July. It went on to win a coveted 4 star review in the USA’s legendary Downbeat magazine and then became a DownBeat Album Of The Year, considered one of the highest achievements in Jazz and Blues.

In a rave review from France, Fred Delforge the president of the French Blues Federation wrote and Keeping The Blues Alive Award Winner wrote: “An exceptional work! An artist who, in addition to harmonica playing with technique, power and delicacy, possesses a voice tailor-made for the blues. In forty minutes, Giles Robson rewrites the history of the blues with only a small piece of metal that fits in your pocket, a phenomenal respect for the work of his glorious elders, a lot of hard work and practice, and most of all, a tremendous dose of feeling, love and passion!”   

The album is a great preview of what to expect at an Up Close With The Blues show. The songs boil over with powerful, nuanced and emotional vocals and just listen to the audience cheer his virtuosic and imaginative harmonica solos. The man has truly triumphed in creating a highly original style that is still deeply rooted and respectful of the blues tradition.