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Vote For Doug!
Vote for Doug MacLeod for THREE Blues Blast Music Awards! A Message Direct from Doug: I’m pleased and proud to let you know (if you don’t know already) that I’ve been nominated for three Blues Blast Music Awards. Doug MacLeod – There’s A Time – Traditional Blues Album “Black Nights” – Doug MacLeod – Song Of The Year Doug MacLeod – Male Blues Artist Voting has begun and it’s free. Here’s the link where you…
Analog Planet Reviews There’s A Time LP
Michael Fremer of Analog Planet reviews the new Doug MacLeod LP, There’s A Time: “Recording engineer Keith O. Johnson, best known for the spacious, wide sound stages and thunderous dynamics found on References classical music recordings, shows here that he can capture the enormous Skywalker space without losing the players in a watery reverb grave … Johnson is well known for capturing an orchestra’s lower registers. Here he perfectly gets the string pluck and body of…
Baltimore Blues Society Reviews There’s A Time
The Baltimore Blues Society’s Dennis Rozanski has a new review for Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time in the latest “Blues Rag”: “Recorded live in the studio, what you hear in lustrous 24-bith HDCD sound is an undoctored document of what really went down between them and a modest push from perfectly tempered bass and drums. Around the weave of crisp, jingling notes and slide slurs, MacLeod curls his lazy back-porch drawl with such natural…
The Audio Beat reviews There’s A Time LP
The Audio Beat has published a host of new Blues vinyl reviews, and Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time LP gets some high marks: “This is the first blues release by Reference Recordings, and it’s quite an accomplishment for a freshman effort. I’ve heard most of Reference Recordings’ LPs over the years, and for my money this is the best-sounding yet. Forget the ones on your personal list; I’ll wager that you will find the sound…
Blues Blast Music Awards Nominates Doug MacLeod!
The Blues Blast Music Award Nominations Have Been Announced! In early May, a group of Blues music industry professionals including music critics, journalists, festival promoters, music venue managers, musicians and other Blues music industry professionals nominated the best of 2013 Blues music in ten categories. Voting to determine the winners begins July 15, 2013 and continues until August 31st, 2013 on TheBluesBlast.com Doug MacLeod has been nominated for the following Blues Blast Awards: Song Of…
Doug MacLeod on KPFT
Earlier this week we shared the audio from Doug MacLeod’s appearance on KPFT. Now you can watch the video via our new playlist. Check out all four videos below: Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Doug MacLeod Visits Quality Record Pressings
As you may know, all of our new Reference Mastercuts LPs are pressed at Quality Record Pressings in Salina, Kansas. Well, Doug MacLeod recently took a visit and signed some copies of the LPs and took a tour of the facilities. Watch the video below: Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Doug MacLeod on KPFT Houston’s Wide Open Spaces
Click to the 2:00:00 mark to hear Doug MacLeod on KPFT Houston’s Wide Open Spaces: Your Browser doesn’t support this stream, so listen HERE Support this station by visiting their website! Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
HP Soundings says to Savor Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time CD
The new Harry Pearson publication hp Soundings has a slew of “New Blues Recordings To Savor” on its site, and taps Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time recording as “Soul music, through and through.” “Macleod has recently rambled over to Reference Recordings and through their Fresh! Label imprint recorded his 2011 Brand New Eyes (‘Brand’)[FR 703] and now, on the Reference Recordings label, has recorded There’s A Time (‘Time’)[Reference Recording 130]. Both titles are superb…
DownBeat gives There’s A Time Four Stars
Noted Jazz magazine DownBeat has a new review for Doug MacLeod and gives the new There’s A Time recording four stars: “It’s a spare, intimate and inspired performance. The Californian’s casually confident singing and quiet yet powerful bottleneck or fingerstyle guitar playing convey a sense that his true stories about colorful characters he’s met on the road and his own emotional responses to life situations hold insights for listeners.” — Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat Order There’s…
Blues and Soul Reviews Doug MacLeod There’s A Time
The Blues & Soul Magazine has quite the rave review for Doug MacLeod‘s There’s A Time: “Sometimes the very best music can make time stand still. Clocks stop. It’s neither day nor night. The bank balance is irrelevant. The bills printed in invisible ink. Nothing else matters at that particular epoch. You just float away on the wonderful sounds coming from your speakers. There’s also another emotion that great music can evoke, and that is;…
Doug MacLeod Makes the Blues Bulletin
The UK’s Spiral Earth publication has a quick review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time recording in their latest “Blues Bulletin.” “And, if ‘There’s A Time’ proves one thing, it’s Doug is all about expression. Joined by Denny Croy (bass) and Jimi Bott (drums) he slows time to catch your ear, making one note talk volumes through his National resonator guitar and life-filled voice. These itinerant stories may have some tough lessons but they contain…
Announcing THREE New HRx Recordings!
Three New HRx Releases now available on ReferenceRecordings.com: Playing With Fire Music by Frank Ticheli Combines the mighty Dallas Wind Symphony with enthusiastic playing by the seven-piece Jim Cullum Jazz Band! Order Today! Eglar: Enigma Variations Vaughan Williams – Greensleeves/The Wasps A new symphonic tour-de-force. This colorful, beloved English music has been captured by GRAMMY winning engineer Keith O. Johnson! Order Today! There’s A Time Doug MacLeod “Prof” Johnson’s first Blues for RR, recorded at…
Gonzo Online Gives There’s A Time Five Stars
Uncle John’s Record Barn on Canada’s Gonzo Online gives Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time Five Stars! “There’s A Time is about as magic a 58 minutes you’re ever going to find on a shiny little plastic disc. A 24 bit HDCD recording, it sounds like being right in the room with the band. “This is the kind of territory Clapton shoots for when he does acoustic stuff- sparse, delicate playing- almost subdued, really- and storytelling…
Chico News & Review With a Rave for There’s A Time
Miles Jordan of Chico News & Review has a short, but rave review for Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time release: “a warm, rich-sounding disc that captures the trio working their way through a baker’s dozen of MacLeod’s unique songs about life’s ups and downs, all played with consummate taste… Playing a variety of mostly National guitars, MacLeod wrings the maximum from each with evocative slide-guitar playing…” — Miles Jordan Read the full review on…