Living Blues has released their Top 50 Albums of 2015 and Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This comes in at #14 and Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice lands at #36! Congrats to both of these great blues artists! Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCDVinyl LP Amazon Apple Music Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify
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’ 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‘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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
TWO new LPs coming June 2! Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This Two-LP 45rpm set on 200 gram pressings in a deluxe gatefold jacket! “In May, 2014, he was awarded not one but two Blues Music Awards in the categories of Acoustic Artist of the Year (after being nominated for this award for the past six years) and Acoustic Album of the Year for There’s A Time on Reference Records. His current Reference Record, Exactly Like…
Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This and RR’s own Jan Mancuso got nice mentions in the February issue of Oregon Music News: He doesn’t record other people’s tunes. The masterful acoustic Blues guitarist and singer only records his own. He has done that again on this album which follows up his award-winning There Is a Time from 2013, which won Blues Music Awards’ Best Acoustic Album. He won Best Acoustic Artist Award that year, too. Co-produced…
The latest issue of Blues Music Magazine has a fantastic feature and interview with Doug MacLeod. Read a sample here and then register to get the full issue online for free: In May, 2014, he was awarded not one but two Blues Music Awards in the categories of Acoustic Artist of the Year (after being nominated for this award for the past six years) and Acoustic Album of the Year for There’s A Time on…
Four stars to Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This recording from Downbeat Magazine: “Doug MacLeod sets up camp in a rare niche of storytelling bluesman that are attuned to the textures and rhythms of life. On this excursion, the wry Californian’s distinctive singing voice and straight-talking guitar comment on a “rough-and-tumble” woman, staying true to oneself, the road back home, the splendor of the Blue Ridge Mountains and more. Subtle and firm support is supplied by…
Doug MacLeod to Play at the Blues Music Awards For the second year in a row, Doug MacLeod will perform during the Blues Music Awards festivities on May 7, 2015 in Memphis TN. Below is a video from last year’s Blues Music Awards: Live Concert Radio Broadcast East Grinstead (UK) community radio station Meridian FM will present its first-ever live concert broadcast from The Red Barn in Blindley Heath featuring acoustic blues master Doug MacLeod!…