⬇️ DOUG MacLEOD ⬇️
DISCOGRAPHY 1984-2025 (27CD)
BIOGRAPHY
After struggling with childhood abuse and a crippling stutter, country
blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist Doug Macleod found his true voice
when he picked up a guitar and began to sing. He was born in New York on
April 21, 1946, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina with his parents
shortly after his birth.
The family moved back to New York before relocating to St. Louis when
MacLeod was in his teens. Frequenting the blues clubs there, he learned
from veteran artists like Albert King, Little Milton, and Ike & Tina
Turner, and played around St. Louis in various bands as a bassist before
enlisting in the Navy. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he spent his
off-base hours playing in the local blues clubs, developing a unique and
rhythmic country blues acoustic guitar style, often abetted with
intricate bottleneck slide runs, and a soulful and powerfully immediate
vocal style -- all traces of his childhood stutter had been
overcome.
No Road Back Home Following his stay in the Navy, he settled in Los
Angeles, where he was a much in-demand sideman for blues icons like
George "Harmonica" Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie
"Cleanhead" Vinson, Lowell Fulson, Big Mama Thornton, and others.
By now a bandleader on his own, he released a debut album, No Road Back
Home, in 1984, following it with a litany of studio and live albums,
including Woman in the Street (1986), 54th and Vermont (1987), Ain't the
Blues Evil (1991), Come to Find (1994), You Can't Take My Blues (1996),
Unmarked Road (1997), Live as It Gets (1999), A Little Sin (2002), Where
I Been (2006), and Brand New Eyes (2011).
His songs were covered by a range of artists, from Albert King, Albert
Collins, and Joe Louis Walker to Eva Cassidy, and in 2006 he released
101 Blues Guitar Essentials, an instructional guitar DVD. MacLeod hosted
Nothin' But the Blues, a popular blues show on Los Angeles' KLON-KKJZ,
from 1999 to 2004, and he was also the voice for The Blues Showcase on
Continental Airlines.
His feature column Doug's Back Porch ran regularly in Blues Revue
Magazine for some ten years. Signing to Reference Recordings, MacLeod
issued the album There's a Time on the imprint in 2013. Exactly Like
This followed in 2015. After the concert set Live in Europe in 2016,
MacLeod released Break the Chain in 2017.
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2025-Between Somewhere And Goodbye @FLAC24-192