Come home to the 35th annual King Biscuit Blues Festival.
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.
Can you imagine that happening today?
“Those are personal stories to him. They’re songs he wrote about his life and his upbringing.”
In today’s episode, award-winning writer Don Wilcock gives his take on “Breaking News”
Blues music knows no color other than its name.
I find Facebook entries offer me a pulse of what’s going on with us.
There used to be a saying that yesterday’s newspapers are only good for wrapping fish.
I think the plethora of news sources is helping all of humanity go insane.
Like Forest Gump, Dick Waterman has always been where the tipping points are in blues.
Martin Barre is old school. At 72, he leans into his guitar playing as if against a tsunami wind.