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 Marshall Chess and Keith LeBlanc about new album ‘New Moves,’ out now!
Interview with Marshall Chess, who grew up rubbing shoulders with blues royalty at his dad’s record label, Chess Records.
This article is part one of a three-part look at a man who spiked the sweet tea that is today’s blues scene.
ABS’s Don Wilcock interviewed Steve Cropper for a coffee table book on blues watercolor paintings by Clint Herring
Interview with Bobby Vega about new album ‘What Cha Got’ – out now via Little Village!
Standing alone in front of a 1931 National steel guitar, a single-stringed diddley bow, an African banjo, and a standard acoustic guitar, he systematically picked each up again and again through two one-hour sets that transported an audience.
Joel Selvin, author of 20 books on music and a veteran music journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, supplies the back stories to more than 200 pages of Chris Strachwitz’s photographs that jump off the pages.
If Robert Johnson had lived long enough to play Carnegie Hall, renowned musicologist Scott Ainslie thinks we would have had rock and roll 10 years earlier than we did.
Jason Rick discusses ‘Behind The Veil,’ out now via Gulf Coast Records!
“If it’s reasonable, it has the blues, and I think first and foremost there’s such a razor thin line between the most profound country artists and the most profound blues artists…”