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Doug MacLeod Creates A Blues Fan
Doug MacLeod has been touring all over Europe lately, and in a new review from the UK’s Blues In The Northwest, reviewer Jane Edwards talks about how Doug MacLeod turned her from someone “knowing little about blues music, and nothing about Doug” into a fan: “I went along to Liverpool Marina having seen posters on the door advertising Doug Macleod. What a treat. Knowing little about blues music, and nothing about Doug, I wondered what…
Italy’s Folk Bulletin Reviews There’s A Time
Italian magazine, FolkBulletin.com has a new review for Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time recording. “Acoustic music at its very best … listening to songs like ‘The Entitled few’, ‘The Night of the Devil’s Road’ and ‘Dubb’s Talkin Religion Blues’ cannot fail to fill your soul. His lyrics are always deep, engaging and never dull…” — Fabrizio Poggi, Folk Bulletin Find the full review in the original Italian at www.folkbulletin.com Order There’s A Time in the…
Positive Feedback Reviews There’s A Time Hi-Res Downloads
Positive Feedback‘s Teresa Goodwin has a new review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time based on the HRx Downloads available on HDTracks. “There’s a Time is a great recording, very realistic “you are there” sonics with a comfortable sound that makes this album a complete joy, from the first wonderful song to the last. Doug MacLeod’s voice and guitar have never sounded better, the bass and drum back him up to great effect. This is…
Doug MacLeod Nominated For Blues Music Awards
The Blues Foundation announced the nominees for the 35th Annual Blues Music Awards yesterday, and RR’s own Doug MacLeod and his new release There’s A Time racked up THREE nominations! Acoustic Album of the Year There’s a Time – Doug MacLeod Juba dance – Guy Davis featuring Fabrizio Poggi Soulscape – Harrison Kennedy Avalon – Rory Block Unleashed – The Hound Kings Acoustic Artist of the Year Doug MacLeod Guy Davis Harrison Kennedy Little G…
Blues Blast Music Awards Next Week!
Next Week (10/31) brings the 2013 Blues Blast Music Awards Show and RR’s Doug MacLeod is nominated for THREE awards! Song Of The Year: Black Nights (There’s A Time) Traditional Blues Album: There’s A Time Male Blues Artist of the Year: Doug MacLeod So keep your fingers crossed for Doug! Nominee listEvent Tickets Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Atlanta Examiner Reviews Doug MacLeod There’s A Time
The “Atlanta Live Music Examiner” reviews a host of new Blues releases on Examiner.com, including our latest Doug MacLeod release, There’s A Time: “With a soothing guitar and soulful voice, McLeod effortlessly rolls through a collection of original tunes that is pleasant to the ear.… From the opening track…there is something familiar about this record. I swear I had heard many of these tunes before but they are all McLeod originals. He plays and sings…
La Hora Del Blues reviews Doug MacLeod
Barcelona Radio Show “La Hora del Blues” reviews Doug MacLeod There’s A Time “ A magnificent musician with a lot of swing, great charisma and much experience to perform semi-acoustic blues with taste and elegant nuances, always from a personal, original and clever point of view. … On this new album Doug shows all his talent and energy, singing and playing acoustic guitars, dobros, and also some six and twelve string National ones. Doug is…
Blues Blast covers Doug MacLeod at Winthrop R&B Festival
Blues Blast Magazine has a great review of the Winthrop (Washington) Rhythm & Blues Festival, and includes quite the praise for RR artist Doug MacLeod: “Each morning opened with songwriter, story teller, and Delta inspired bluesman Doug MacLeod. If you have never had the opportunity to listen to Doug talk and play, then you should find him and listen. Aside from being quite funny, he is also inspiring with his down-home philosophies embedded in his…
Inaugural Blues Music Magazine reviews There’s A Time
Art Tipaldi has a fantastic review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time in the inaugural issue of Blues Music Magazine: “Doug MacLeod continues to breathe fresh ideas into his music. MacLeod’s warm, almost conversational, vocals coupled with his pinpoint finger picking have been the center of his art for decades. … Decades ago, Doug MacLeod learned that a bluesman reaches people and makes them feel something that helps them get through our world easier. Every…
MusicNews Nashville Loves Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time
Music News Nashville critic, Janet Goodman, has a great new review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time CD: “…acoustic bluesman Doug MacLeod always has a colorful story to tell. On his latest album ‘There’s A Time’ – his debut on the Reference Recordings label – the bottleneck-and-finger-style wiz guitarist brings to life thirteen original songs, singing in wails and whispers, punctuating lines with loosey-goosey slides on his National resonator guitars … Not only does he…
The Higher Note Pegs Doug MacLeod There’s A Time as a ‘Gem’
The On a Higher Note blog by Philip O’Hanlon has a a fun review and feature for Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time LP: “I play records at a lot of Shows and Dealer’s Music Events across the country & have never witnessed the reaction that this LP garnered. As it’s a 45 RPM LP; the sides are only twelve minutes long, so I let the whole side play each time I spun this record.…
BluesNews Loves Doug MacLeod’s Story-Telling
German magazine bluesnews says of Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time, “A storyteller par excellence” — “He reduces the blues to the core… This storyteller par excellence manages to captivate again within narrowly defined limits… As with the best live performances of MacLeod, you hang on every word, every whisper, every note played. Absolutely Fabulous.” — Vincent Abbate, bluesnews Read the full review in the original German on bluesnews.de! Order There’s A Time in the…
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…