Blues, wine and cheese, the Candlelight sessions at The Crooked Crow with a favourite artist returning from last year!
Leighton Buzzard’s independent events venue, The Crooked Crow Bar, is hosting the next in their popular series of Candle Light sessions on Thursday 9th July. Reverend Ferriday, renowned for his brilliant Blues roots performances, went down a storm in 2025, so we asked him back again!
Reverend Ferriday - he's all about Dirty Blues from the roots, hip-shakin' acoustic, foot drum percussion, early electric guitar riffs and slide guitar plus a deep vocal delivery that is strong in lyrical content, accompanied by a toe tappin' bass drum beat. Well how’s that for an introduction!
His performances are with strong roots in Hill-country Blues and Americana, his original music has a low down dirty blues sound. The acoustic strains and early electric guitar riffs are accompanied by sliding melodies and foot percussion. The Rev's slide guitar captures the raw foot stomping, Juke Joint sound and a deep vocal delivery that is strong in lyrical content is accompanied by a toe tappin' bass drum beat.’
Back in the late 80’s Reverend Ferriday's musical journey began when he and Robert Hampson formed ‘Loop’; a critically acclaimed Indie rock band whose debut album "Heavens End" reached No1 in the N.M.E charts. He was a guest in 1987 on the late John Peel’s show with the DJ commenting "And very good too" about the performance! His musical career blossomed out in the early 1990’s when he played in the successful country rock band ‘Sintra’ who played support to bands such as The Rocking Birds and Green on Red.
Solo albums came a bit later - with his first album released in that great year of the London Olympics – 2012. Entitled "A foot stompin acoustic album", it was reviewed by Jak Miller of Lucid Productions who described it as having ‘echoes of Seasick Steve, a dash of Johnny Cash and the structure and vocal melodies of Brian Setzer/Stray Cats!’. Second album "Nine Beats" arrived a year later and conveys much more of a low down dirty feel, ‘Somewhere between Johnny Cash and Nick Cave and the bad seeds’
Reverend Ferriday certainly has developed his own sound, the songs that he writes and plays are deep in lyrical content with a simply driven slide guitar. His slide guitar captures the raw foot stomping, ‘Juke Joint sound’ enriched by a deep vocal delivery strong in lyrical content and accompanied by a toe tappin' bass drum beat. He’s based in the south east and regularly performs at live music venues, clubs and festivals throughout the UK and Europe.
The event is all seated with wine deals plus Pimms and the now legendary cheeseboards are available from the bar. Bookings can be made on line at https://www.crookedcrowbar.com/event-details/candlelight-sessions-15, Door open at 8pm and the show commences at around 8:15pm.