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Author: 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.
‘Whatever You Need,’ produced by Will Sexton and Bruce Watson, is out May 6 via Bible & Tire Recording Co.!
Interview with blues queen Diunna Greenleaf, whose album ‘I Ain’t Playin’ will be released in May via Little Village Records!
Albert Cummings is casting a wider net with ‘Ten,’ a production that involved Vince Gill and some other heavy hitters in Nashville.
Doug’s Jim Gaines-produced ‘A Soul to Claim’ is a genuine heartfelt journey and a reflection of the times we’re living in.
Interview with Jim Weider, sole guitarist for The Band from 1985-2000, whose Weight Band will play The Delta Roots Festival on April 9!
The pandemic has separated the winners from the losers in the music business. Little Village is one of the winners. With the growing fan base for the label’s artists, the blues has a bright future.
“I think of people like Cary and me as artists of the spoken word. We’re plying the same depths as the artists we’re privileged to get to know. Our job is represent them as real people, not product.”
Cowboy Junkies’ versions are covers in the same way that a homemade patchwork quilt is a “cover” on granny’s bed. ‘Songs of the Recollection’ is out March 25!
Albums like this one produced by people who lived this music are to be treasured
Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty discusses the origin of “Dazed and Confused,” new memoir ‘She Walks in Beauty,’ and Yardbirds history!