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.
Acoustic guitarist Tim Williams was half way from Calgary to Memphis in his journey to compete in the International Blues Challenge when the flight attendant in Houston made her first offer.
Inside Llewyn Davis, the new Coen Brothers film, focuses on a brief period in pop music history between the introduction of rock and roll and the British Invasion — based on a famous Greenwich Village personality
“I love you, daddy,” says Taj Mahal’s daughter, Deva Mahal. “I love you, baby,” he says back.
King Biscuit Blues Festival and The Core Culture
What is Bluzaplooza? Shemekia Copeland, Saddam’s Palace, incredible blues, and hurricanes… all in the name of paying our troops back for their incredible sacrifice.
Is there a Memphis sound? Brad Webb thinks so. He’s been totally immersed in the Memphis scene for more than 40 years. “I picked up the guitar of this guy from Atlanta I was doing sessions with and hit one lick, and that guy goes, ‘Oh, man, did you hear that?’ I was like, ‘Hear what?’ And it was me hitting a note, either bending a note or whatever. It was like that guy from Atlanta who was a horn player/keyboard player immediately picked up on the idea, ‘This guy plays different than we do.’ I mean I know we…
Malco Theater hosts the popular event with an all-star blues team at noon on Saturday, October 12, 2013
“A man can live a long time without water or food, but a man cannot get along without hope.” So says blues legend Bobby Rush
“I think that my time is just the right time,” explains singer/songwriter Valerie June, who released her debut national album “Pushin’ Against A Stone”
“If I wasn’t so old, I don’t know if I would continue to do this stuff,” says Carl Weathersby after an eight hour session at Chicago’s famous late-night blues club, Kingston Mines