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Break The Chain Vinyl in Stereophile
Doug MacLeod and the LP release of Break the Chain got a nice mention from Stereophile‘s Michael Fremer as part of a review of the Audia Flight FLS1 Pre-Amp/DAC in the April 2019 issue: “Bluesman Doug MacLeod hasn’t put out one bad record in his long career…His latest, Break the Chain (2 45rpm LPs, RM-2519), recorded live at Skywalker Sound by Keith O. Johnson and Sean Royce Martin, with no edits or overdubs, is yet…
Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain Vinyl is a Hi-Fi News Album Choice!
UPDATE: Hi-Fi News has selected Break The Chain as a Top Audiophile Vinyl Album of 2019! Hi-Fi News features Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain recording as their December 2018 “Album Choice” in the Audiophile: Vinyl section: “Vintage LPs…have been audiophile totems for decades, but rare are new titles. MacLeod’s third for Reference ticks all the boxes: higher-speed playback, 180g vinyl and half-speed mastering.… [It has a] sound that’s massive, visceral and weighty. The content? As…
Hi-Fi+ Reviews Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain
Jason Kennedy of Hi-Fi+ has a new review for Doug MacLeod’s Break the Chain: “Reference Recordings has a long history of making fabulous recordings, and engineer Keith O. Johnson apparently has a knack for capturing both the sound of the room and the musicians and producing releases that combine naturalness with dynamics in a highly convincing manner. … one of the label’s greatest assets is contemporary blues singer Doug MacLeod. … On this album he’s…
Doug MacLeod to Perform LIVE on WBGO
On the heels of the LP-release of his Blues Music Award-winning album, Break The Chain, Doug MacLeod will be joining New York’s premier Jazz & Blues radio station, WBGO, next week, August 22 at 3pm Eastern for a live performance and interview. The program will be broadcast over the air and online – so make sure to tune in at WBGO.org! Break The Chain In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod…
Doug MacLeod: BREAK THE CHAIN now available on LP!
Doug MacLeod’s Blues Music Award-winning Break The Chain recording is now available as a 45rpm, two-LP set pressed by Quality Record Pressings on 180-gram Vinyl, with half-speed mastering by Paul Stubblebine! In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. Recorded by Reference’s Grammy-winning engineer ‘Prof.’ Keith O. Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain has twelve new…
Doug MacLeod Nominated for 2018 Blues Blast Music Award
Following their recent cover story and interview, Blues Blast Magazine has announced Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for a 2018 Blues Blast Music Award for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year. This is the second major honor for Break The Chain as it was just recently announced as the winner of the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album of the Year! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…
Blues Blast Magazine Features Doug MacLeod
Blues Blast Magazine‘s May 31 issue features Doug MacLeod on the cover along with an extensive new interview by Don Wilcock! The first time Doug MacLeod performed “Break The Chain,” the title song from his latest album, was in Denmark. “I was doing a festival. I was in this room. There must have been about 300 people there, and they all stand up there in Denmark. And I mentioned the story of “Break The Chain.”…
Break The Chain Wins Blues Music Award!
Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain recording has won the 2018 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year! This makes three years in-a-row that Doug MacLeod has won a Blues Music Award (Acoustic Artist of the Year 2017, 2016). Congratulations to Doug MacLeod, Jesse MacLeod, Jimi Bott, Denny Croy, and Oliver Brown! From Doug MacLeod “I was thrilled to hear the news that Break The Chain won The Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of…
Blues Music Magazine Celebrates Doug MacLeod and Break The Chain
The January 2018 issue of Blues Music Magazine is out and available online, sporting a front cover, and five pages devoted Doug MacLeod and his Break The Chain recording: “A knock and a quick response: the green door of the home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. cracks open and bluesman Doug MacLeod pokes his head and shoulders out and into this sunny October afternoon, answering for his host, radio blues broadcaster Bill Wax.…
Doug MacLeod Break The Chain Nominated for Independent Music Awards
The Music Resource Group announced the Nominees in The 16th annual Independent Music Awards (The IMAs), and Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for Blues Album of the Year! Winners will be announced March 31st at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. See the full list of nominees at IndependentMusicAwards.com and vote for Doug in the Fan selections! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…
Break The Chain a Living Blues Top Album of 2017
Living Blues released their Top 50 Blues Albums for 2017 and Doug MacLeod’s Blues Music Awards-nominated album, Break The Chain, comes in at #48! “Like all good blues storytellers, Doug MacLeod sings and speaks the truth. Indeed, the blues as a medium of truth telling appears throughout his latest release, Break the Chain. In the liner notes, MacLeod reveals that his son, Jesse, who plays guitar on the disc, was diagnosed with spindle cell melanoma…
Doug MacLeod Joins International Blues Challenge Keynote Panel
Doug MacLeod, whose latest Blues Music Award-nominated recording’s title-track, Break The Chain, highlights Doug’s own story of “breaking the chain” of abuse, will join The International Blues Challenge’s Keynote Panel on “Addiction, Abuse, and the Blues” this Friday, January 19, 2018 in Memphis, TN: Keynote Panel of The International Blues Challenge: AAB: Addiction, Abuse, and the Blues The IBC Keynote Panel will explore the often hidden and shame-filled topics of addiction, abuse, and their relationship…
THREE Blues Music Awards Nominations!
The 39th Annual Blues Music Awards nominees were announced this morning (January 9, 2017) in Memphis, TN and Reference Recordings artists and albums have combined for THREE nominations! 39th Blues Music Award Nominees Acoustic Album of the Year: Break the Chain Acoustic Artist of the Year: Doug MacLeod Instrumentalist-Drums: Jimi Bott Vote Now Full Nominee Press Release Order Now Break The Chain In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to…
Tune in Blues Music Awards Announcement
The Blues Foundation with broadcast partner Ditty TV will announce the 39th Blues Music Awards nominees LIVE from Memphis on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 starting at 10am CST! Watch via Ditty TV or The Blues Foundation’s Facebook page and keep your fingers crossed for Doug MacLeod, his new Break The Chain album, and Fiona Boyes! RR Blues on Spotify
Break The Chain a Downbeat Magazine Best of 2017
Downbeat Magazine has published their Best Albums of 2017 list in their January issue, and Doug MacLeod‘s Break The Chain has made the cut! “Doug MacLeod, a craftsman of rare skill and sagacity, share more than a few dramatic affinities with past greats as he offers his own creative parameters to the common 12-bar language. … distinctive, well-regulated singing and note-bending on classic guitars stimulate the keening hopefulness… [performed] with five assured sidemen, including his…