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.
Blues fans know Steve best from his role as the devil who gets into a guitar duel with Ralph Maccio in the 1985 film Crossroads.
Artists universally are obsessive about creating their music and getting in front of an audience to perform their creations, but what if that artist has another obsession, one that takes them away from their art? One that is potentially life threatening? But one that sharpens their muse and takes the listener on the roller coaster with them? Mike Morgan is just such an artist. He’s a Texas guitarist and songwriter whose first release came out in 1990. He has recorded eight albums for Black Top Records and Severn Records. His just-released Lights Went Out in Dallas marks the first release…
“The whole thing is to keep not only my dad’s legacy going, but have my own going, too.”
Nora will appear at Don Wilcock’s Call and Response blues seminar at King Biscuit Blues Festival on Saturday, October 8
The King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas will run a main stage from Thursday through Saturday, October 6 through 8. Secondary stages will feature performers from Thursday through Saturday. I’m hosting a free to the public Warmup Wednesday on the main stage paying homage to the late Bubba Sullivan, who started the festival with Jerry Pillow in 1985. My guests will include Bobby Rush, Lonnie Shields, Reba Russell, Richard Young from Kentucky Headhunters and Sterling Billingsley. I’m also co-hosting the free Call and Response Blues Seminar with Roger Stolle on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. My guests will be…
Serabee talks ‘Hummingbird Tea,’ out October 14!
The 7X BMA winner will release ‘Ain’t Nobody Worried’ on October 7th via Stony Plain Records!
“We put our hearts and souls into it. I think people will pick up on that.” Justin Saladino discusses ‘Honest Lies,’ out September 16!
Escape to a world time left behind with music that’s as timely as it is carrying an American legacy, a Disneyland for blues lovers. This year’s festival begins on Wednesday with an homage to the late Bubba Sullivan, the visionary whose devotion to blues built an event that’s become the gold standard of the genre.
‘Winter Hill Blues’ takes the listener into a very different world of Bentonia blues which he’s learned under the tutelage of 75-year-old Mississippian Jimmy “Duck” Holmes