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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.
Honoring the late, great B.B. King on his birthday!
Samantha is placing some sterling blues guitar work in a framework that takes the genre way out of is comfort zone. ‘Faster’ is out today!
Wightman brings to his memoir a lawyer’s attention to detail and a promoter’s understanding of the often-rare combination of artists with both talent and a viable fan base for that talent
Ah, but the music! The aural nectar of the Gods!
The road goes on forever and the music never dies. Remembering Bubba Sullivan: the mover, the shaker, and the blues star maker.
Happy birthday, Billy Joe Shaver (August 16, 1939 – October 28, 2020)
The four-time Grammy-nominated artist discusses unity, influences, and his background in sacred steel guitar
John Belushi’s muse, award-winning vocalist and songwriter Curtis Salgado, remembers the great actor and comedian
Kingfish has found a way to inject his original music with the sense of thrill that his mentors historically infused into their sound
Along with his partners Ken Irwin and Marian Leighton, Bill Nowlin built the world’s most prolific and unique indie record label