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 Supremes eclipsed The Miracles, the Temptations, and the Four Tops to become the highest profile group at a label that was redefining the very definition of pop music.
Reflecting on the many talents and contributions of Charlie Daniels (1936 – 1920)
Jerry told me in 1979, “We’re strictly working people, really. We’ve never been rich. I think that works out pretty well.”
He’s calling this his country album – one that captures the best efforts of a very complex man
The scariest part of all this is that some younger people who are rightfully impatient about sequestering, are throwing caution to the wind.
“I really respect Buddy’s depth,” Herring said. “That fire was exactly what I wanted to see happen. Sometimes it happens: his electricity, that fire.”
Something had soured Grace in the quarter century since “White Rabbit.” Maybe it was the fact that despite their early success they hadn’t saved a lot of money.
B.B. and Bobby were wound up like a cheap watch to be playing on the same stage with each other. This was the very top of the line of urban blues.
“They said, ‘Man, that’s what you should have done.’ But I thought it wasn’t good enough.”
The Haight nurtured a pioneering spirit made up of musicians unfettered by the conventions of postwar American society ready to rewrite the very fundamentals of everyday life. It’s going to take a similar view of freedom for music to function and thrive in the wake of the pandemic.