It’s the time of year again when we look back and try to remember some of the books we’ve read and some of the music we’ve heard that has made an impression on us or somehow stayed for more than […]
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No Texas honky-tonker could slip more easily into saloon singing than Delbert McClinton does on Prick of the Litter (out January 27 on Thirty Tigers). With arrangements built more on jazzy keyboards and saxophones than the usual guitar sting, the […]
Since the clock struck midnight on January 1, I promised myself to get deeper into the history of American string music. Despite spending the last few years wading my way through the fertile swamps of newgrass, bluegrass, and Americana, I […]
It’s easy to take Delbert McClinton for granted, but that’s largely because after spending more than four decades mixing up blues, honky-tonk country, R&B, and rock ‘n’ roll, he makes it all sound easy. Listening to Cost Of Living, one […]
Every roadhouse musician knows that a groove is better than a rut. This two-disc set by Texas veteran Delbert McClinton offers ample opportunity to distinguish between the two. Against numbing expectation, McClinton and his six-man band of road warriors tear […]
Delbert McClinton recently turned 60, an age that once would have spelled obsolescence for a rocker. But at a time when more and more of his peers are finding renewal in late middle age, and helping their followers do the […]
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