Blues circles in India after they became the only blues band to represent the country (Courtesy The Blues Club of India) at the 23rd International Blues Challenge organized by the Blues Foundation, in Memphis, Tennessee, US, in February 2007. They were semi-finalists and performed at the Rum Boogie Café (Blues Club of The Year, 2007) alongside 150 other bands and musicians from all over the world. As of February 2014, Soulmate has released three albums: Shillong, Moving On and Ten Stories Up. Smokestack Smokestack is a band from Pune, who named themselves after the song by Howling Wolf. They grouped together as a band sometime in 2006 and started off as a purist acoustic blues trio. However, soon after formation, they began experimenting with folk and roots music as well as rhythmic influences from around the world. This led to expanding the band to include drums and electric guitars. Smokestack is currently made up of: Anoop Kumar - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Michael Thompson - Harmonica Vishal Gore - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Bass Shreyas Iyengar - Drums, Percussion Vidula Andromeda - Vocals, Harmonica They have previously had a few other musicians as full/part-time members of their group: Varun Venkit - Drums, Percussion, Occasional singing Sarathy Korwar - Drums, Percussion Siddharth Sharma - Bass Guitar They frequently play with other musicians who are well known names in the local Indian jazz/blues and rock scene, many of whom also stay in Pune. Blues Conscience Blues Conscience is a blues trio from Chennai that was started in 2008 by Anek Ahuja, Aum Janakiram and Neil Smith, for the sole purpose of promoting the blues in today’s rock and metal influenced live music culture. As a three-piece outfit, their roots go deep into some of the greats that have played the blues such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. They provide a fully suited up act, retaining every essence of the blues while also performing renditions of their own such as "Kamasutra", "Shaggin Ma Dog" and "Barack Obama?" Often called a “feel good band" that is constantly engaging the audience with the right energy, they are a band like no other. On the bass and vocals is Anek Ahuja, Aum Janakiram on guitars/vocals and Neil Smith on the drums. The Saturday Night Blues Band One of the only mainstream blues bands in India, was formed in