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Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes are Digital Blues Best of 2015
The Digital Blues Podcast names the recent Reference Recordings releases from Doug MacLeod and Fiona Boyes to their Best of 2015 list! Listen to the podcast today: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCDVinyl LP
Bowers & Wilkins Features Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This
Bowers & Wilkins’ Society of Sound says Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This is perfect “music for your speakers”: “Exactly Like This is a genuine, storytelling, acoustic blues album and an audiophile recording, and one that I use in a demonstration, along with his previous Reference Recordings album, ‘There’s A Time’.” —Paul Janove, Graham’s Hi-Fi London See the full feature on the Bowers & Wilkins blog! HDCDVinyl LP
Blues Music Magazine Reviews Exactly Like This
Blues Music Magazine‘s Don Wilcock has a great new review for Doug MacLeod and his Blues Music Awards-nominated Exactly Like This recording: “His best songs are slices of life that leave you wanting the rest of the pie. Sometimes laconic but never lazy, Doug MacLeod is a class act story teller. … every cut on this album is truly a MacLeod original. Like all great blues men, MacLeod lives his music, and the songs are…
Multiple Blues Music Award Nominees!
The Blues Foundation announced the 37th Blues Music Award Nominees and Reference Recordings artists are well represented! Doug MacLeod Acoustic Album (Exactly Like This) Acoustic Artist Song: “You Got It Good (and That Ain’t Bad)” Fiona Boyes Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) Jimi Bott Instrumentalist-Drums The 37th Blues Music Awards will be presented May 5, 2016 in Memphis, TN Final Ballot will be sent to MEMBERS December 22, 2015Become a Member TODAYPurchase the recordings…
Doug MacLeod Talks with Blues in the South
Blues In The South magazine’s Ian McKenzie interviews Doug MacLeod. Below is an example of the exchange, but find you can find the full interview online on BluesInTheSouth.com! Ian McKenzie: Let’s also move back just a little bit again to your acoustic playing, because – I think it was for five or six years, Doug, that you were nominated as the acoustic artist of the year in the Blues Foundation Blues Awards, and every year…
Macallè Blues interviews Doug MacLeod
Italian blues magazine Macallè Blues has a new interview with RR artist Doug MacLeod: MB: Let’s start from the basics. Every time I talk to some blues cat, no matter if he’s a musician or just a blues lover, one of my biggest curiosity is always about the way he’s discovered the blues. So Doug, how did you get to know and, I would say, love the blues? Did it happen by a family record…
Wichita Blues Society Recommends Doug MacLeod CDs!
Randy Crump reviews Doug MacLeod’s “Art for Your Ears” concert in the Wichita Blues Society’s “Blues Riff” newsletter: “MacLeod, who is a master storyteller and very entertaining, explained the blues to an audience of over 300 people. Drawing on his 40 years on the road as a bluesman, he introduced each song with a great story about why and how it came about. He painted a picture in each audience member’s mind as he prepared…
Doug MacLeod on Blues Radio International!
Click to listen to Doug MacLeod on Blues Radio International via SoundCloud! EXACTLY LIKE THIS Doug MacLeod Buy the HDCD! Buy the Vinyl LP! Doug MacLeod is a unique, powerful guitarist with a rich and soulful voice, singing original songs based on his own life and experiences. His new album EXACTLY LIKE THIS is his third release with Reference Recordings. This is ‘Genuine Original Acoustic Music’ at its very best, in a richly detailed recording…
Macallè Blues Reviews There’s A Time
Italian blues outlet, Macallè Blues reviews Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time: “…Accompanied by the devoted rhythmics of Jimi Bott and Danny Croy, already present in the previous There’s A Time, here the piano skills of Michael Thompson are added, also him back to family with MacLeod after the recent tours with the Eagles. The program that develops along the eleven tracks of the disk, moves from Rock ‘Till The Cows Come Home, homage to the…
Doug MacLeod, Denny Croy and Jimi Bott Together at The Levitt Pavilion
Doug MacLeod, Denny Croy and Jimi Bott have recorded together on two Reference Recordings albums, There’s A Time and Exactly Like This, but the three of them have never played together in concert…until now! The trio will be performing Sunday, August 30 at the Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena, CA! Find out more on the Levitt Pavilion website! EXACTLY LIKE THIS Doug MacLeod Buy the HDCD! Buy the Vinyl LP! Doug MacLeod is a unique, powerful…
Daily Music Break Talks with Doug MacLeod
The Daily Music Break has a new podcast catching up with Doug MacLeod. See the post on dailymusicbreak.com and listen below: Your browser does not support the audio element. Exactly Like This Buy the HDCD! Buy the Vinyl LP! “His insightful lyrics, unique voice, steady beat, and delicious resonator guitar sounds may entice you to join the ever-increasing ranks of Dubb Heads. …” —Blues Blast Magazine “The blues are storytelling personified and there is no…
Doug MacLeod & Exactly Like This Nominated for Blues Blast Music Awards
The 2015 Blues Blast Music Award Nominations have been announced and 2013 Blues Blast Music Artist of the Year Doug MacLeod returns to the BBMA lineup with another nomination for Male Blues Artist as well as a nomination for his new Reference Recordings release, Exactly Like This! The Blues Blast Music Awards In early May, a group of 30 top Blues music industry professionals including music critics, radio DJs, journalists, festival promoters, music venue managers…
Doug MacLeod — Too Many Misses
Start your weekend with this video from the Blues Music Awards courtesy of Blues Radio International: Doug MacLeod: Too Many Misses Buy Exactly Like This on CD and VINYL Today!
Blues Blast Magazine Calls Exactly Like “This Superior Traditional Blues”
Blues critic Rainey Wetnight says if you better be dancing to Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This: “[Doug MacLeod] wants listeners to know that great acoustic blues sounds Exactly Like This – crisp, original, and engaging. … Nearly three decades have refined him into a renowned blues master. Performing alongside him on this album are drummer Jimi Bott, bassist Denny Croy, and pianist Michael Thompson. They all prove that music in this genre doesn’t have to…
Doug MacLeod at The Red Barn
Last month, we told you about Doug MacLeod’s exciting concert at The Red Barn that was presented by and then broadcast LIVE by Meridian FM, and now we’ve got some pictures to prove it!