Blues Way Brings Traditional Blues Together With a Previously Unreleased Tim Broad Recording Featuring Robbie McIntosh
Official cover artwork for Blues Way, the traditional blues album by Mehran Matin, Julyo & SF1.
Mehran Matin, Julyo & SF1 present a nine-track traditional blues album featuring Robbie McIntosh and a previously unreleased Tim Broad recording.
At its heart, Blues Way is about stories — stories of home, distance, memory, loss, resilience, and the desire to find one's way home.”
DUBLIN, DUBLIN, IRELAND, August 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Mehran Matin, Julyo & SF1 present Blues Way, a new nine-track traditional blues album bringing together musicians from different backgrounds, generations and musical traditions. At the heart of the album is a remarkable piece of musical history: a previously unreleased recording by the late Tim Broad, featuring acclaimed British guitarist Robbie McIntosh.— Mehran Matin
Recorded between November 2025 and July 2026 at Camden Studios and Yellow Door Music Studios in Dublin, Ireland, Blues Way moves through different shades of traditional blues, from intimate and reflective performances to fuller arrangements built around guitar, Hammond organ, harmonica, saxophone, percussion and drums.
“The River of Love”: A Lost Recording Finds Its Way Home
One of the album's defining tracks, “The River of Love,” originated in the 1980s and was never officially released. The recording features the late Tim Broad and Robbie McIntosh on lead guitar and backing vocals.
The story of how the recording was rediscovered became an important part of the Blues Way project. Emma Gale played a key role in preserving the recording and helping bring it to the album, allowing Broad's music to reach a new audience decades after it was recorded.
Its inclusion creates an unusual bridge between eras: a recording preserved from another period of British blues and rock history now sits alongside performances recorded in Dublin by the musicians and collaborators who brought Blues Way together.
A Journey Through Traditional Blues
Running for nearly 34 minutes, Blues Way is built around the idea that blues is fundamentally a way of telling stories. Across nine tracks, those stories touch on home, distance, memory, loss, longing, resilience and the desire to find one's way home.
Rather than approaching traditional blues as something fixed in the past, the album brings musicians from different places and generations into the same musical conversation. The result is a project concerned both with preserving musical history and keeping the blues alive as a contemporary form of expression.
Blues Way features performances by Giulio “Julyo” D'Agostino, Tim Broad, Robbie McIntosh, Chris Lonergan, Ken Watkins, Hugo Lee, Suzanne “Sax Diva” Grzanna, An Vedi, Federico Gucciardo, Jack Walker, Igor Wilcox, David Herzhaft, Fernando Moncada, Dario Rodighiero and SF1.
The album was produced by Andrea Fresu, Dimitris Nezis, Emma Gale, Robbie McIntosh and Tim Broad, with engineering by Alessandro Di Camillo, Robbie McIntosh and Mason Mazziotti. Mixing and mastering were completed by Mehran Matin.
About Blues Way
Blues Way is a traditional blues album by Mehran Matin, Julyo & SF1, released by Buoy Music. Recorded in Dublin, Ireland, the nine-track project brings together an international group of musicians while preserving a previously unreleased recording involving Tim Broad and Robbie McIntosh.
Official album information and listening: www.BluesWayFYC.com
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