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Doug MacLeod

Blues artist Doug MacLeod earned an international reputation and won multiple awards for his tough, fleet-fingered guitar playing (typified by 2023's Raw Blues 1) and fluid bottleneck solos (the latter highlighted on 2015's Doug's Slide Guitar), as well as his impassioned and soulful vocal style. MacLeod most often performs on acoustic guitar, but he's also well-versed in electric styles (as on 1984's No Road Back Home) and a respected songwriter and magazine columnist. Doug MacLeod was born in New York City on April 21, 1946, and his family relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina shortly after his birth. MacLeod had a difficult childhood marked by abuse, and he had a severe stutter. As he struggled to overcome his speech impediment, he learned to play the guitar and started to sing, which helped him find his voice. The family moved back to New York before relocating to St. Louis when MacLeod was in his teens. He became a frequent visitor to St. Louis' blues clubs, and he learned from veteran artists like Albert King, Little Milton, and Ike & Tina Turner. As he honed his skills, he played around St. Louis in various bands as a bassist before enlisting in the Navy. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he spent his off-base hours playing in the local blues venues, developing a unique and rhythmic country blues acoustic guitar style often abetted with intricate bottleneck slide runs, and a soulful and powerfully immediate vocal style. While in Virginia, MacLeod was mentored by a musician named Ernest Banks, who taught him to "Never play a note you don't believe" and "Never write or sing about what you don't know about." After he completed his hitch in the military, MacLeod received more formal instruction at the Berklee College of Music, and relocated to the West Coast, settling in Los Angeles. As MacLeod made his way into the L.A. blues scene, he landed gigs as a sideman for many influential blues artists, including Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Lowell Fulson, and Big Mama Thornton. MacLeod also worked with George "Harmonica" Smith, who became a close friend and trusted advisor who gave him his nickname "Dubb." In 1984, MacLeod cut his first solo album, 1984's No Road Back Home, and with his group the Doug MacLeod Band, he made a pair of albums for the German Stomp Records label, 1987's Woman in the Streets and 1989's 54th and Vermont. Songs from the two Stomp albums would later be used on the popular television series In the Heat of the Night. MacLeod also began making a name for himself as a songwriter, and in time his tunes would be recorded by Albert King, Eva Cassidy, Son Seals, Albert Collins, and Dave Alvin. In 1991, he teamed with the revived R&B label Volt Records to release Ain't the Blues Evil, and 1994's Come to Find (which included harmonica work from guest artist Charlie Musselwhite) was his first LP for AudioQuest Records. 2002's A Little Sin saw MacLeod jump to Black & Tan Records, and he moved to Reference Recordings, a San Francisco-based label specializing in jazz, blues, and classical material, for 2011's Brand New Eyes. The album would be nominated for Acoustic Album of the Year at the Blues Music Awards; by this point, he had already been nominated for Best Song ("Dubb's Talkin' Politician Blues" in 2006), and Acoustic Artist of the Year (he was nominated every year from 2008 to 2018, and again from 2020 to 2023). MacLeod would take home the Acoustic Artist of the Year trophies in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2020, and he won Acoustic Album of the Year for There's a Time (2013) and Exactly Like This (2015). In addition to his busy recording schedule and playing blues clubs and festivals around the world, MacLeod also set out to share his knowledge with others, issuing the instructional DVD 101 Blues Guitar Essentials in 2006. MacLeod hosted Nothin' But the Blues, a popular blues show on Los Angeles' KLON-KKJZ, from 1999 to 2004, and he was the voice for The Blues Showcase on Continental Airlines. His feature column, "Doug's Back Porch," ran regularly in Blues Revue Magazine for some ten years. He published the book Who Is Blues, Vol. 1 in 2018, and with Debra B. Schiff he co-wrote the 2022 novel Murder at the Crossroads: A Blues Mystery. 2022's A Soul to Claim was named one of the best albums of the year by the influential jazz magazine Downbeat, and in March 2023, he released the first in a series of EPs, Raw Blues 1, that captured him performing solo acoustic live in the studio, with no edits or overdubs.
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