Going along the same lines as Liz’s “Favourite Things About Birmingham” posts, i’m gonna start doing some “Best of Birmingham” entries… the only problem being that since i’m relatively new to Birmingham (approaching my 1st anniversary!) I haven’t really visited THAT many places. But what hell… I can always amend / append / delete the entries at a later date, right? Also please feel free to add comments / opinions / recommendations for future readers to find. The more the merrier!

So… the topic for this first post will be blues music! My girlfriends parents are coming over from Norway to visit in a few weeks, and they’d love to go to a blues bar, concert, or anything like that, but I have no idea where to take them. I guess I’ll include jazz-type venues in this search as well.

The only place I can think of off the top of my head is the Jam House which is suppose to be quite good, but a little pricey (2 courses