In more than a quarter-of-a-century of touring, multi-award winner Ian Siegal's mission statement has barely changed: songs that are real, shows that resonate and vocals served raw. Today he is considered by many to be the most compelling British blues artist since the great names of the 1960s.

Classic Rock tags Siegal "a national treasure," America's blues bible says "vast talent" and MOJO magazine ranks him "the cleverest writer and most magnetic blues performer in the UK." He has taken his music to some 50 countries, and presided over a trophy haul that includes two UK Blues Awards, 10 British Blues Awards, four European Blues Awards, two Mojo Blues Albums Of The Year not to mention three US Blues Music Awards nominations - an unprecedented nod for a non-American.

Siegal is known as a bluesman, but it's just one shade in the palette of an artist who slips between continents,…