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Delbert McClinton Live (2-CD)

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(2003 'New West') (89:00/19) Fantastisches Livealbum, aufgenommen beim norwegischen... more

Delbert McClinton: Live (2-CD)

(2003 'New West') (89:00/19) Fantastisches Livealbum, aufgenommen beim norwegischen 'Bergen Musicfest / Ole Blues'. Delbert und die Band sind in Höchstform, dem Publikum gefällt's un der Sound der Live-CD ist ausgezeichnet. Die Kraft der Band kommt hervorragend rüber. Wer diesen Mix aus Rock'n'Roll, weißem Soul und Blues mag, wird's zufrieden sein. Sehr zu empfehlen / Superb live album, recorded in Norway with an enthusiastic audience. The band's in great shape. Their sound is powerful, also the man himself had fun on stage. This is his best live record! If you dig the combinastion of rock'n'roll, white man's soul, and blues, this special blend of American roots music, then this is the one for you. Highly recommended. DELBERT McCLINTON - voc/hca, KEVIN McKENDREE - kbds, ROB McNELLY - gtr, TERRY TOWNSON - tpt, DON WISE - sax, GEORGE HAWKINS - bass, LYNN WILLIAMS - drums.

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McClinton, Delbert - Live (2-CD) CD 1
01 Old Weakness Delbert McClinton
02 Leap Of Faith Delbert McClinton
03 I'm With You Delbert McClinton
04 I Wanna Thank You Baby Delbert McClinton
05 I Want To Love You Delbert McClinton
06 Smooth Talk Delbert McClinton
07 Maybe Someday Baby Delbert McClinton
08 Don't Want To Love You Delbert McClinton
09 New York City Delbert McClinton
10 Squeeze Me In Delbert McClinton
11 I've Got Dreams To Remember Delbert McClinton
12 Why Me Delbert McClinton
13 Rebecca, Rebecca Delbert McClinton
14 Going Back To Louisiana Delbert McClinton
15 When Rita Leaves Delbert McClinton
16 Livin' It Down Delbert McClinton
17 Giving It Up For Your Love Delbert McClinton
18 B-Movie Boxcar Blues Delbert McClinton
19 Little Fine Healthy Thing Delbert McClinton
McClinton, Delbert - Live (2-CD) CD 2
01 Why Me? Delbert McClinton
02 Rebecca Rebecca Delbert McClinton
03 Back To Louisiana Delbert McClinton
04 When Rita Leaves Delbert McClinton
05 Livin' It Down Delbert McClinton
06 Giving It Up For Your Love Delbert McClinton
07 B-Movie Boxcar Blues Delbert McClinton
08 Fine And Healthy Thing Delbert McClinton
Delbert McClinton Delbert McClinton is impossible to conveniently classify. He's country, he's... more
"Delbert McClinton"

Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton is impossible to conveniently classify. He's country, he's soul, he's blues, he's rock and roll. The singer/harpist is the ultimate embodiment of the musical melting pot that is the Lone Star state of Texas. 

"For lack of a better term, I just sometimes call it ‘Delbert music,'" says McClinton.

Born November 4, 1940 in Lubbock (Buddy Holly's hometown), Delbert and his family relocated to Fort Worth when he was 11. "I grew up in West Texas, listening to Bob Wills and Lefty Frizzell," he says. "I got into music in Fort Worth in the early and mid-‘50s, which was the time I started playing music." Delbert made his public debut in 1957. Before long he assembled his first band, the Mellow Fellows, who morphed into the Straitjackets in 1959 or '60. McClinton developed a blues-soaked harp style to accompany his vocals. "I got real turned on to the Jimmy Reed style of harmonica, and Sonny Boy's style," says Delbert, who backed a lot of his blues heroes at the Skyliner Ballroom despite being young and white.

"We had about the best band around at that time," he says. "So every weekend, we'd be working with Jimmy Reed, Joe Turner, B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Buster Brown, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf." Meat salesman and Fort Worth label owner Major Bill Smith produced the 1960 debut single by ‘Mac Clinton And Straitjackets' for his Le Cam label, a cover of Sonny Boy's Wake Up Baby. "Oh, he was just there," says Delbert. "Right time, right place is the Major."

McClinton's reputation as a harpist grew exponentially when he played on Bruce Channel's '62 pop chart-topper Hey! Baby, a Le Cam release picked up nationally by Smash. "Major Bill asked me to get the guys together for a session," says McClinton. "The night we did ‘Hey! Baby,' it was just one of those nights where something magic happened." When Channel toured England, Delbert joined him and gave a few pointers to John Lennon. "John wanted to learn how to play harmonica," he says. "So for those few days that we were together, we got pretty tight." Major Bill's Brownfield logo released If You Really Want Me To, I'll Go by Delbert's band the Ron-Dels, a minor pop hit in 1965 after Smash acquired it for release.

The Ron-Dels persisted into 1967 before throwing in the towel. Delbert split for Los Angeles in ‘70. He teamed with Glen Clark to cut a pair of LPs as Delbert & Glen for the Clean label before returning to Fort Worth, McClinton signed with ABC Records and released a series of mid-‘70s solo albums that skirted any and all idiomatic boundaries. His rollicking rendition of Bo Diddley's no-nonsense grinder Before You Accuse Me hails from Delbert's 1976 ABC set ‘Genuine Cowhide,' cut in Nashville with a band as eclectic as McClinton: Reggie Young, John Lee Christopher, and producer Chip Young on guitars, keyboardists Bobby Emmons and Bobby Wood, bassist Mike Leech, drummer Ken Buttrey, and a four-piece horn section.

McClinton finally crashed the bigtime in 1980 with his Capitol LP‘The Jealous Kind,' boasting the smash Giving It Up For Your Love. Three decades and a lot of albums later, Delbert McClinton still makes it tough on record store managers. "There's not much I can do about it," he says defiantly. "I can't tell ‘em what to call it!"   

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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