‘The Newsman,’ McEuen’s new album due out on April 12, is an abrupt departure from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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.
Mitch has a new and quite contemporary album, ‘The Roof Is on Fire,’ released by Ruf Records.
Interview with Bobby Rush, who has just won his third Grammy at age 90.
New album ‘Gardens Old, Flowers New’ out now!
‘Broken’ is out March 1 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group!
Alexis’s deep baritone voice cuts an imposing, almost monolithic figure.
Interview with Tinsley Ellis about ‘Naked Truth,’ out now via Alligator Records!
Interview with Seth Glier, who returns to Schenectady’s Eighth Step Saturday night.
Marshall Chess himself told me, “I always had deep respect for his knowledge and honesty and true love of the blues.”
The two duet on “I Aim to Please.”