Artist: Delbert McClinton
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Delbert McClinton – Cost Of Living
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 can catch a whiff of everyone from Chuck Berry to Bobby “Blue” Bland (and many [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #57 May-June 2005
Delbert & Glen – Self-Titled / Subject To Change
From the opening song of 1972′s self-titled release by the duo of Delbert McClinton & Glen Clark, it sounds like the blueprint for the roots movement of a quarter-century later. The set draws on blues, soul, rock, country and gospel with the same congenial aplomb of fellow Texan Doug Sahm. The pair teamed up in [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Delbert McClinton – Live
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 into the familiar “Giving It Up For Your Love” as if it were raw meat, [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Delbert McClinton – Let the good times roll
Picture this. The heart of the Texas panhandle, late 1940s. We are driving up a dirt road. The heat is suffocating, moving in dusty waves through the car windows to settle against our mouths. But the humidity is slowly lifting, leaving the world to smell like damp, cooked greens. We pass a clump of dark [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Delbert McClinton – Nothing Personal
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 same, he refuses to fall back on any laurels. On Nothing Personal, his first album [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Sandy Beaches Cruise V – M/S Leeward (Caribbean Sea)
I’ll hand it to Delbert McClinton, the man knows how to throw a party. When I saw an ad last summer in No Depression [#16, July-Aug. '98] for Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches Cruise, and it listed a musical lineup that included Joe Ely, Asleep At The Wheel, Al Anderson, Mike Henderson, Robert Earl Keen, Marcia [...]
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