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As a youth, Doug overcame abuse and a crippling stutter by turning to music. After picking up a guitar, and singing – he found his voice. MacLeod’s playing landed him sideman gigs with George ‘Harmonica’ Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, Lowell Fulson, and Big Mama Thornton.
Doug MacLeod is a unique, powerful guitarist with a rich and soulful voice, singing original songs based on his own life and experiences. Doug MacLeod isn’t ...
“Doug MacLeod has earned the many accolades and honors that have come his way in recent years. He continues to find creative ways to rework the blues traditions, honoring the legacies of the legends he learned from. Keeping in mind that he has over twenty recordings to his credit, There’s a Time might be his best yet.
17 de out. de 2023 · Doug MacLeod came to visit us for a second time with a performance at KNKX’s new downtown Seattle studio. While he is now an acoustic bluesman, earlier in his career he worked for many years as a sideman playing electric guitar for blues legends Big Mama Thornton, Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton and many others.
At the heart of a Doug MacLeod performance is his knack for storytelling, bringing characters-from the faceless to the legendary-to strikingly real life. Doug is a multiple Blues Music Award winner, including the 2023 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year and the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of The Year ‘Break The Chain’. .
Doug MacLeod’s seemingly recent arrival on the blues/jazz front has actually been a long time in coming. For over two decades he has worked in a diverse number of musical arenas. The late Sixties and early Seventies found him playing the East Coast coffeehouse circuit with folk musicians like Emmylou Harris and Juice Newton, while still serving in the U.S. Navy.
23 de mai. de 2022 · Doug MacLeod is one of those singer/songwriters of the blues who pulls his inspiration from deep within himself and turns it into music that aims deep within you. And it works. It especially works in person, where MacLeod’s boyish charm, sly humor and soulful sincerity blend perfectly to produce music that roams from joyous to solemn, from playful to passionate.
