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.
“I asked Keith about that once. ‘Do you ever get bored with your catalog,’ and he said, ‘Definitely not.’”
Hundreds of performers took the stage to perform an average of two songs each in a flawlessly produced epic presentation with virtually no downtime between the short sets.
These guys transport you into another galaxy. They’re Rocky and Bullwinkle when it comes to turning rock culture into one huge fractured fairy tale and their Jimi Hendrix collision with a Minnie Pearl dress code breaks the rule of cool that most hot rocks cling to.
Dawn Tyler Watson had three months to recuperate from her triple bypass before competing in this year’s International Blues Challenge.
Margolin is currently on tour with The Last Waltz 40, a celebration of the original concert billed as The Band’s last performance.
His life story reads like the blues version of a Grimm fairy tale…
The Kentucky Headhunters describe the moment they met blues piano great Johnnie Johnson. Their work together would result in awesome new material, and great stories about Keith Richards and Chuck Berry!
Reba is as raw as her back story, and talking to her is like peeling back the skin of an onion. The meatier it gets, the more you cry.
To say that Joan Osborne is pleased to be co-headlining with Mavis Staples, one of her strongest influences, would be a gross understatement. Both strong women are at the peaks of their careers as their new tour kicks off.
IBC winning guitarist, singer and songwriter Zak Harmon’s road from the Mississippi Delta to L.A. to acclaim as a singer is powerfully coming full circle.