Blues Blast Magazine has announced their 2025 Blues Blast Music Awards nominees for 2025 and Reference Recordings® is thrilled to share that Doug MacLeod has been nominated for Acoustic Guitarist of the Year!

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Doug MacLeod – Between Somewhere And Goodbye

Reference Recordings proudly presents our 6th release with the outstanding, multi-­Blues Music Award winner Doug MacLeod. Internationally acclaimed for his original songwriting, warm, soulful vocals, guitar wizardry and witty storytelling, Doug teamed with producer Andreas Werner, engineer Joe Funderburk in Nashville’s Creative Workshop studio, and mastering engineer Sean Royce Martin of Reference Recordings for “Between Somewhere and Goodbye”.