Perhaps you will not believe it, but I was looking forward to receiving the new 2010 Blues Calendar edition and, as ever, it has not deceived me Once again it is the best present you should buy for yourself but also for all your relatives and friends, because it is also a good discreet way of approaching blues to people who are not familiar with it and thanks to your present will perhaps discover this musical style, and become deep blues lovers like we are It is the seventh edition of this classic yearbook –the first one was published in 2004- and now it is very popular among worldwide blues fans It includes original Robert Crumb’s drawings of legendary bluesmen and blueswomen in every month page, all them set in twenties and thirties The calendar also includes some lyrics, short bios, anecdotes and birth and death dates of many blues artists Together with the calendar you will also receive, as additional gift, an eighteen songs cd of the musicians who illustrate the pages Some of this year selected artists are Robert Wilkins, Charley Patton, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ida Cox, Mississippi Sheiks, Ma Rainey, Blind Blake, Papa Charlie Jackson, Ramblin’ Thomas or Henry Thomas among others Many songs included on the cd were previously unreleased, so they are exclusively published for the calendar edition If you do not find this marvelous calendar at your habitual record shop, you can tell them to ask for it at Resistencia in Madrid, which distributes it in Spain, or you can also contact them directly at phone +34913665346 Of course, if you do not get a copy, you do not know what you are missing