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Author: Don Wilcock
Now into his second half century as the warrior music journalist, Don Wilcock began his career writing “Sounds from The World” in Vietnam, a weekly reader’s digest of pop music news for grunts in the field for the then largest official Army newspaper in the world, The Army Reporter. He’s edited BluesWax, FolkWax, The King Biscuit Times, Elmore Magazine, and also BluesPrint as founder of the Northeast Blues Society. Internationally, he’s written for The Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards program, Blues Matters and Blues World. He wrote the definitive Buddy Guy biography 'Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues,' and is currently writing copy for a coffee table book of watercolor paintings of blues artists by Clint Herring.
“To me it’s just me doing what I do.” Today’s medicine for a world gone mad and his welcome home gift to fans, Charlie’s new album marks his moving back to Clarksdale from California. ‘Mississippi Son’ is out now via Alligator Records!
Singer-songwriter James McMurtry discusses his new album, ‘The Horses and the Hounds, available now!
Interview with producer Bruce Watson, who records simply to expose the artists he loves to a wider audience for altruistic reasons.
An interview with Edgar, who proves categorically that his muse is as artistically vibrant as his brother’s entire catalog.
McLean has referred to the song as “an indescribable photograph of America that I tried to capture in words and music.” He is currently on a 50th Anniversary American World Pie World Tour that has him booked into 67 venues, and he’s also just released a children’s book called ‘American Pie: A Fable.’
“They tell me to this day somewhere in the world this record is being played every day.”
‘Whatever You Need,’ produced by Will Sexton and Bruce Watson, is out May 6 via Bible & Tire Recording Co.!
Interview with blues queen Diunna Greenleaf, whose album ‘I Ain’t Playin’ will be released in May via Little Village Records!
Albert Cummings is casting a wider net with ‘Ten,’ a production that involved Vince Gill and some other heavy hitters in Nashville.
Doug’s Jim Gaines-produced ‘A Soul to Claim’ is a genuine heartfelt journey and a reflection of the times we’re living in.