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.
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
“American music is a patchwork of cultural legacies of histories. The music reflected it. I realized that I need to thematically unify all this gorgeous music that is American music.”
“It’s music that’s created by a specific group of extremely oppressed people in order to deal with oppression that they are suffering. But it’s so strong that those of us who didn’t grow up in horrible oppression can feel it, and people who don’t understand the words can feel it.”
Baton Rouge was in fact a “whole nother world” for Patti Parks. Kenny Neal’s job was to make her feel at home. Recorded in Neal’s studio, ‘Whole Nother World’ is available now!
“I think one of the best things I’ve learned as an artist is you never want to be put in a box. You always want to have the freedom to test new ground and discover new things.”