The Marshall amplification group will launch its latest record release at this weekend's Ealing Blues Festival with a preview performance of Living The Blues by Terry Marshall and Friends.

The Friends include many of Britain's top blues musicians, including Robert Hokum, founder of the festival, along with a number of the other performers at next weekend's event including Robin Bibi, Hugh Budden, Geoff Garbow, Emma Wilson and Zoe Schwartz.

Terry Marshall, a regular performer at the Blues Festival said: "Every musician on Living The Blues I've played with on stage, so it was just like meeting with mates.

"I asked the singers what songs they'd like to sing on the day, and we'd make an arrangement on the spot and then get a take. We recorded all those tracks in four days – I didn't want any rehearsals.

"I wanted the singer to feel relaxed, and because all the people we had on there were jammers, I knew it would work."

Terry Marshall performing at the 2019 Ealing Blues Festival (credit: Ealing Club Community).

Robert Hokum said: "It's fitting that Marshall should launch its latest venture close to where it all started for them at the Ealing Blues Club in 1963. That's where the classic 'loud' Marshall JTM45 guitar amplifier was first heard in public."

Marshall at the time was run by the late Jim Marshall and his son Terry and was known as a west London musical instrument shop in Hanwell. Today, the Marshall Group is a global business with a £290m annual turnover.

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The company developed its first guitar amplifier following a request from Pete Townshend of The Who: "Pete wanted something louder," recalled Terry Marshall. "And being a sax player, I had no loyalty to Vox or Fender. I knew what these guys wanted, and it took a sax player's ears to give it to them."

Terry Marshall and Friends will be performing tracks from Living The Blues on Sunday 28 July on the Festival Main Stage.

Later that night will see the highly anticipated Sons of Cream featuring Malcolm Bruce and Kofi Baker whose fathers – Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker -- cut their teeth as blues players at the Ealing Club.

Living The Blues will be released as a limited edition 180-gram heavyweight double LP set, CD and digitally via Marshall Records on 11 October 2024. It can be pre ordered here: https://livingtheblues.lnk.to/TerryMarshallandFriendsPR          

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