Raleigh News & Observer

Rhythms Live Music Hall postpones opening show with Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton’s upcoming performance at Rhythms Live Music Hall — the Triangle’s newest music venue — is the latest event in a career full of highlights. McClinton is a guy from Lubbock, Texas who ...
Houston Press

Distant Early Warning: Cactus Music Second Anniversary, Delbert McClinton, the Marley Brothers, Mindy Smith, Queen Latifah, the Slackers, Vallejo, etc.

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American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1940, the Grammy-Winning Blues Rocker Whose Songs Have Been Covered by Emmylou Harris, the Blues Brothers, and More

McClinton began playing the guitar as a young teenager. Soon, he formed a band called The Straitjackets, who served as the house band at Jack’s, a club in Fort Worth, Texas. At the age of 19, he was ...
Billings Gazette

Delbert McClinton to co-headline blues festival

There's a symphony of hard times in Delbert McClinton's rich Texas drawl. It's in his lyrics - ballads of loss, longing and an irrepressible desire to keep going - and behind the sting in his wit. And ...