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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.
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
Bill Wax talks about why he left BB King’s Bluesville on Sirius XM, the impact they were making on the popular station, and “the huge gorilla in the room”
Kim Wilson, the only original member left in The Fabulous Thunderbirds, talks new soul album, being a veteran in a tough industry, and being the “John Mayall” of American blues!
Mick Jagger stands thin as a stripper’s pole at the edge of the Rolling Stones’ lip stage and extends his right arm into the audience, palm up. How has decades of being “the worlds greatest rock band” treated The Stones? Read on.
Richie Haven, the artist who froze the 60s’ youthful revolution in time for generations to come, passed away at age 72. Discover Haven’s incredible legacy in his own words…