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Ian Anderson's Country Blues Band
12+ albums
countryrockcountry rockbluesblues rock
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Anderson first performed in his home town of Weston-super-Mare as a member of the Backwater Jooks Band[1] and came to prominence as a member of the Bristol basedcountry blues scene of the mid to late 1960s, performing live and on record, both solo, with Al Jones and Elliott Jackson as the trio "Anderson Jones Jackson", and as a duo with Mike Cooper. The middle initial was added at a later date to avoid confusion with Ian Anderson of the band Jethro Tull. In December 1969, with John Turner of Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, he conceived the record label The Village Thing, for which he was also a producer. The label's first release was in 1970. Village Thing "championed" a number of folk musicians, predominantly from the Bristol area. In the 1970s he moved from the West Country to Farnham, Surrey, performing with Maggie Holland as Hot Vultures and coining the term "English country blues" before becoming immersed in world music and forming a number of collaborations with musicians from various nations and genres. He was instrumental in founding the Farnham Folk Festival which was held annually at Farnham Maltings for some years. In 1979 he founded Southern Rag, as a local quarterly folk music magazine, in a simple A5 format. After 13 issues it had become very popular and respected well beyond the local area so Anderson took the decision to make it a glossy, A4 sized magazine with national distribution, under a new title, Folk Roots. Anderson moved to London where he made the magazi
