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.
Interview with Tinsley Ellis about ‘Naked Truth,’ out now via Alligator Records!
Interview with Seth Glier, who returns to Schenectady’s Eighth Step Saturday night.
Marshall Chess himself told me, “I always had deep respect for his knowledge and honesty and true love of the blues.”
The two duet on “I Aim to Please.”
‘The Love You Bleed’ is out January 26 via Forty Below Records!
A world traveler, this was Wesli’s first stop in upstate New York, and he was genuinely moved by a response from fans that was over the top in celebratory exuberance.
The sound of Wesli’s music is more upbeat than most blues. “In the Haitian way of doing music we are thinking the same sadness that we are living out from under colonization. We sing it with happiness, because inside of us we know we are free.”
Interview with singer-songwriter Jeffrey Gaines, whose current tour includes a Friday, January 12th stop at the iconic coffeehouse Caffe Lena in Saratoga, New York.
I will be at Johnny Rabb’s Elvis Birthday Bash bathed in a life of memories that define who I am.
Our own Don Wilcock will be inducted into the Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame!