The Champs Competition Music

So lets give you the details of the Champs Competition music. I hope you all enjoyed my choices.
I will try my best to compile a Spotify list when I can.

Friday Night Solo Blues

40 Cups of Coffee - Ella Mae Morse

Saturday Competition Tunes. No particular order.

I'm Not Drunk, Im Just Drinking - Di Ann Price
Came To Leave - Shoshana Bean
Cast The First Stone - Paula Harris
Little Wheel - John Lee Hooker
Fine Brown Frame - Nellie Lutcher
Retro Boy - Richard Elliot
Baby What You Want Me To Do - Bonnie Lee
Back Porch Blues - Tom Rigney
Bad Luck Blues - Billy Boy Arnold
My Babe - Snooky Prior

I See Fire (Kygo Remix) - Ed Sheeran
Night Air - Jamie Woon
It Never Rains In Southern California - Albert Hammond
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Go With Me - Dietrick Haddon
I Still Believe in you - Mavis Staples

Nine One One! - R&B Bombers
Bubbly Kisses - Ina Forsman
Buff's Bar Blues - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Leave My Money Alone - Phillip Walker
I'll Walk Away - James Hunter
Who Is He (And what is he to you) - Lenny Henry
Fever - Ruby Wilson
Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Eric Clapton
Shagging To The Blues - Original Beach Music Band

You're Gonna Get Next To Me - Bo Kirkland and Ruth Davis
Yo Dress Is To Short - Bob Steele
Driftin' Blues - Sam Cooke
Walking Blues - Joe Bonamassa
Behind My Back - Sista Monica Parker
Somebody Call The Cops - Sally Kellerman

Sunday Competition Tracks (A little bit more gritty)

Whoa Yeah - John Studebaker and The Hawks
I'm Ready - Muddy Waters
Checkin' Up On My Baby - Mick Jagger and the Red Devils
Jump The Broom - Mr Sipp
My Baby's Gone - Lightening Hopkins
Juniors Wail (Ft Elmore James) - Junior Wells
This Business Of Love - Domino
Goin' Crazy With The Blues - Hot Sardines

The Man Who Cant Be Moved - The Script
With Or Without You - Cunnie Williams
Down In Mississippi - Mavis Staples
Left Me Singing The Blues - Trudy Lynn With The Calvin Owen Blues Orchestra
Love Uprising - Jackie Wilson
Days Of Depression (Ft Blind Boys of Alabama) - The Reverend Shawn Amos
I'm Mad Again - John Lee Hooker
Grinnin' Like A Cheesy Cat - Mighty Blue Kings
Murder In The First Degree - Elvin Bishop

If You're A Viper - Di Ann Price
The Blonde Next Door - Vann "Piano Man" Walls
Singin' Down at 10th and Main - Curtis Stigers
Chaos In Tejas - Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat
Christine - The Chris O'Leary Band
St Louis Blues - Ella Fitzgerald
Work Song - Nina Simone

As we had more entrants some of the songs were paired up at the last minute to accommodate the splitting of categories into 2 rounds. But it seemed to work ok. I hoped you liked them. I had fun (and some pain) selecting them.

perhaps we might do it all again next year.

Chris Uren

Results

2016 UK Blues and Smooth Championships.

Here are the results for the Championships. Didn't win or place. Worry not. You're all winners simply for supporting us and 'Having a go'. Chris Uren and Lisa Graydon

Friday Fun Competition

Solo Blues
1st Janette Shillito
2nd Chiharu Chi Nakao
3rd Gina Scholdfield

Saturday Competitions

Lucky Dip
1st Ann Harrison and Michelle Black
2nd Liam Ball and Melissa Dring
3rd David Wood and Chloe Hunt

Fresh Fundamentals
1st Jennifer Cowling and Fiona Newby
2nd Anton Antonov and Melanie Farrington
3rd Chris Wiseman and Jessica Rose

Young, Fun and Feisty
1st Matthew Brook and Hannah Lonsdale
2nd Liam Ball and Bianca Blezard
3rd Deej Moors and Heidi Ayling

In The Zone
1st Paul Ray and Sarah Lovatt
2nd Niel Wiffen and Jo Wiseman
3rd Chloe Hunt and Mellisa Dring

Smooth Blues Fusion - The Juke Joint Trophy
1st Matthew Brooke and Suzanne Berson
2nd Neil Wiffen and Jo Wiseman
3rd Liam Ball and Bianca Blezard

Valentines Trophy
1st Liam Ball and Bianca Blezard
2nd Robert Docherty and Magdelena Bukala-Docherty
3rd Gary Woodward and Alex Peel

Sunday Competitions

Smooth, Sassy and Sophisticated
1st Paul Ray and Thelma Quince
2nd Nick Shore and Ann Harrison
3rd Steve King and Carol Almond

Raw and Ready
1st Matthew Brooke and Hanna Lonsdale
2nd Deej Moors and Heidi Ayling
3rd Steve King and Carol Almond

Swinging The Blues - CurlyWurly Trophy
1st Robert Jeffreys and Anna Jeffreys
2nd Melvin Young and D Lynn Davis
3rd Ken Blake and Ann Harrison

Polished and Professional
1st Deej Moors and Heidi Ayling
2nd Matthew Brooke and Carol Lloyd
3rd Robert Jeffries and Anna Jeffries

Jack and Jill
1st Robert Jeffries and Heidi Ayling
2nd Robert Docherty and Michelle Black
3rd Deej Moors and Sarah Lovatt

You all did brilliantly. Entered into the spirit of the event and we both think you are all. WONDERFULL.

Chris, Lisa and the Champs crew.