As if Delbert McClinton’s voice wasn’t enough, embued with the grit and soul of a hundred Texas honky-tonks, his bank of memories from the past 60 years would comprise a book you’d want to read. As a ...

Ex-Trick Pony lead singer Heidi Newfield teams up with a number of respected music names -- including blues guitarist, pianist and harmonica player Delbert McClinton -- on her forthcoming new album, ...

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 ...

Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark: Blind, Crippled & Crazy In 1972, Texans Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark had already been a part of the Texas music scene for ten years. They recorded Delbert & Glen ...

Alex Chadwick talks with singer-songwriter Delbert McClinton about his new album, Cost of Living, and what it's like to have a hit on the blues and country charts on the eve of your 65th birthday.

Delbert McClinton returns to the studio for the first time in three years for a new label and serves up the same old thing—the most informed and honest bastard child of country music and blues one ...

Delbert McClinton was born on November 4, 1940, in Lubbock, Texas, and is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter renowned for blending blues, rock, country, and Americana. Starting his career in ...

He began his career dodging flying bottles and whipping through greasy versions of ''Watermelon Man'' and ''Tequila'' behind the strippers on the Jacksboro Highway, the infamous Fort Worth honky-tonk ...

Now and then, you might hear it said that someone was born to play the blues. For Lubbock, Texas native Delbert McClinton, that’s actually the case. “It’s not a matter of something I wanted to do.

Delbert McClinton describes his latest album Tall, Dark & Handsome, out July 26th, as “kind of a salute to Texas blues, the music I grew up on.” With respect to the always-succinct McClinton, it’s ...

Recorded in Nashville last September, this week’s episode of Walking the Floor captures a 50-minute conversation between podcast host Chris Shiflett and blues belter Delbert McClinton. Both musicians ...

Guys like Delbert McClinton ought to be looked at the way people think of fine wines: Some things just get better with age. The 62-year-old McClinton finds ways to strengthen and sharpen his vision, ...