The sound of Wesli’s music is more upbeat than most blues. “In the Haitian way of doing music we are thinking the same sadness that we are living out from under colonization. We sing it with happiness, because inside of us we know we are free.”
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.
Interview with singer-songwriter Jeffrey Gaines, whose current tour includes a Friday, January 12th stop at the iconic coffeehouse Caffe Lena in Saratoga, New York.
I will be at Johnny Rabb’s Elvis Birthday Bash bathed in a life of memories that define who I am.
Our own Don Wilcock will be inducted into the Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame!
Interview with Marshall Chess and Keith LeBlanc about new album ‘New Moves,’ out now!
Interview with Marshall Chess, who grew up rubbing shoulders with blues royalty at his dad’s record label, Chess Records.
This article is part one of a three-part look at a man who spiked the sweet tea that is today’s blues scene.
ABS’s Don Wilcock interviewed Steve Cropper for a coffee table book on blues watercolor paintings by Clint Herring
Interview with Bobby Vega about new album ‘What Cha Got’ – out now via Little Village!
Standing alone in front of a 1931 National steel guitar, a single-stringed diddley bow, an African banjo, and a standard acoustic guitar, he systematically picked each up again and again through two one-hour sets that transported an audience.