Mehran Matin, Julyo & SF1 Present Blues Way, a New Traditional Blues Album Honoring the Roots and Legacy of the Blues
Blues Way is a nine-track album rooted in the timeless language of traditional blues and shaped by musicians from different backgrounds, generations, and musical traditions.
Running for nearly 34 minutes, the album moves through different shades of the blues, from intimate and reflective moments to fuller arrangements built around guitar, organ, harmonica, saxophone, percussion, and drums. Recorded between November 2025 and July 2026, Blues Way took shape at Camden Studios and Yellow Door Music Studios in Dublin, Ireland.
At its heart, Blues Way is about stories.
Stories of home. Stories of distance. Stories of memory. Stories of people who have disappeared but whose music remains. Stories of roads traveled and roads left behind.
One of the album’s most important purposes is to preserve a piece of musical history that had remained unheard for decades.
“The River of Love”: A Lost Recording Finds Its Way Home
At the center of Blues Way is “The River of Love,” a deeply personal recording featuring the late Tim Broad.
Recorded in the 1980s and never officially released until now, the track brings Broad’s music to an audience beyond the musicians and listeners who knew and appreciated his work during his lifetime.
The story of how the recording was rediscovered became one of the most meaningful parts of the Blues Way project. Emma Gale played an important role in preserving the recording and helping bring it to Blues Way, ensuring that Tim’s music could finally reach a wider audience.
“The River of Love” also features acclaimed British guitarist Robbie McIntosh on guitar, connecting a recording preserved from another era with the musicians and collaborators who brought Blues Way together decades later.
Keeping the Blues Burning
Blues Way ultimately exists because musicians continue to believe that the blues matters.
The genre has endured across generations because its emotional language remains universal. Its stories may begin in a particular time or place, but the feelings at their center — love, loss, longing, resilience, loneliness, hope, memory, and the desire to find one’s way home — remain recognizable.
That is what Blues Way seeks to preserve.
Not simply a sound.
Not simply a style.
But a way of telling stories.