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THE BiTS INTERVIEW: Neil Sadler

Critically acclaimed blues / rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and
recording artist. Solo album "Past To Present" released in 2024 . The

album was No 1 in the IBBA most played albums list for 2024

Regularly appears in blues magazines. Released “Blue Touch” album
on 1st March 2022, which reached no. 2 in Amazon Hottest New

Releases Chart and went to No. 6 in the Independent British Blues
Association's Chart.

Neil has just been nominated in the Album of the year category in the

UK Blues Awards.

BiTS: Hi Neil. That's wonderful. I’ll tell

you what I want to do, I want to talk to
you, of course about the record and your
future, but also about where you come

from. Your website is not very
forthcoming about growing up and
learning to play and all that sort of thing.

So let's start there.

NS: Okay.

BiTS: Tell me something about your

upbringing. Was there a lot of music in
your family?

NS: Do you know what, I'd never really

thought about that question until just
now, but not really, is the answer. I
would say that my dad, at Christmas

time, would play harmonica and he
would play Christmas carols on the

harmonica, which is something until you
just mentioned, that I'd forgotten all
about. My mum was, I guess if she wasn’t musical, she was certainly a fan of music.
We had a lot of records in the house. She would always be buying things. I mean

back in the early 60s, The Beatles was a big thing in her life and obviously it rubbed
off on me a little bit, I guess. She was always bringing things home; records home

and stuff like that. No blues stuff, that happened to me much later.

BiTS: On the other hand, when did you start to play the guitar?