“What’s gotta happen is people gotta change the law that you must treat a man right. We gotta find a way. Everybody knows what’s wrong, but nobody knows how to fix it.”
Author: Don Wilcock
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.
Celebrating Delbert McClinton’s 80th birthday with an interview, originally published last year, on his latest studio album
‘Uncivil War’ takes another step forward in moving the dial for blues in a more eclectic direction
Reverend John Wilkins (October 10, 1943 – October 6, 2020)
‘Trouble’ is a ray of sunshine in the world’s darkest hour
Eddie wrote the book to clarify history
The Supremes eclipsed The Miracles, the Temptations, and the Four Tops to become the highest profile group at a label that was redefining the very definition of pop music.
Reflecting on the many talents and contributions of Charlie Daniels (1936 – 1920)
Jerry told me in 1979, “We’re strictly working people, really. We’ve never been rich. I think that works out pretty well.”
He’s calling this his country album – one that captures the best efforts of a very complex man