Between Somewhere And Goodbye Doug MacLeod

• 1 Memphis In Your Soul 04:52
• 2 Between Somewhere And Goodbye 05:13
• 3 Keep On Walking On 04:05
• 4 Hard Times 03:40
• 5 Roll Like A River (2025) 05:04
• 6 I Ain’t No Stranger 04:02
• 7 One Rib Short 04:02
• 8 The Seen And The Unseen 05:30
• 9 Even Angels Get Too Sad To Fly 03:29
• 10 I Don’t Like Your Chances 03:08
• 11 Watching The Sun Go Down 03:50
• Total Runtime 46:55

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Reference Recordings ist stolz darauf, seine 6. Veröffentlichung mit dem herausragenden, mehrfachen Blues Music Award Gewinner Doug MacLeod zu präsentieren. International bekannt für sein originelles Songwriting, seinen warmen, gefühlvollen Gesang, seine Gitarrenkünste und seine witzigen Geschichten, hat sich Doug für „Between Somewhere and Goodbye“ mit dem Produzenten Andreas Werner, dem Toningenieur Joe Funderburk im Creative Workshop Studio in Nashville und dem Mastering Engineer Sean Royce Martin von Reference Recordings zusammengetan.

Unterstützt werden sie von namhaften Musikern aus Nashville: Schlagzeuger Lynn Williams, Mark T . Jordan am Klavier, dem Wurlitzer E-Piano und der B3-Orgel sowie dem Bassisten Paul Ossola und den Gesangsharmonien der Shoals Sisters, Cindy Richardson Walker, Marie Tomlinson Lewey und Carla Russell, bietet Doug eine Sammlung von elf seiner Kompositionen, die er sowohl in Solo- als auch in Ensemblebesetzung präsentiert. Die Musiker, die unter dem Namen Funky Chester Rhythm Section bekannt sind, haben bereits mit vielen der Besten zusammengearbeitet: Bonnie Raitt, John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Delbert McClinton, Lyle Lovett, Van Morrison, Buddy Guy und der Saturday Night Live Band.

Doug hat für dieses Album zwei Gitarren verwendet: seine Waterloo WL S Deluxe namens „P Nut“ und „Little Bit“, seine alte Gibson C-100 FE. Das Cover zeigt ein Gemälde der legendären Hernando de Soto Bridge, das der Künstler Matthew Hasty für dieses Album geschaffen hat. Seit er 2019 nach Memphis, Tennessee, gezogen ist, hat der mächtige Mississippi viel von Dougs Leben und Songwriting beeinflusst und geprägt. Das Booklet des Albums enthält auch Dougs persönliche und informative Linernotes, in denen er erklärt: "Dieses Album ist ein wenig anders als meine anderen Alben. Hier gibt es Blues, Humor und sogar einen Hauch von Soul. Und...... es gibt ein Thema, das sich durch viele der Songs hier zieht."

Doug Macleod, Gitarre, Gesang

Engineered by Joe Funderburk
Gemastert von Sean Royce Martin
Produziert von Andreas Werner

Doug MacLeod
winner of The 2013 Blues Blast Music Award for Male Artist Of The Year and perennial Blues Music Award nominee, is a singer-songwriter in the American tradition. He is a traveling artist that writes and sings original songs that are based on his own life and experiences. He learned from the old masters, lived the music, survived the life and carries forward a valuable tradition. MacLeod is known for his superb songwriting, guitar wizardry, warm soulful vocals, wit and unforgettable live performances. At the heart of this is his knack for storytelling, bringing characters-from the faceless to the legendary-to strikingly real life.

As a youth he overcame abuse and a crippling stutter by turning to music. After he picked up a guitar, and tried to sing - he found his voice.

While he developed his rich, soulful singing style MacLeod also worked out a unique, unorthodox and powerfully rhythmic acoustic guitar style. The rage of his turbulent youth was eventually channeled through his guitar, using his relentless right hand to pound out an insistent, churning beat to complement his intricate bottleneck and finger-style technique. 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. Under their tutelage, he learned how to thrill and enrapture a crowd.

Over 29 years, 19 studio albums, several live records, compilations, a blues guitar instructional DVD and a live performance DVD, MacLeod has consistently earned raves. His songs have been covered by many artists including Albert King, Albert Collins, Joe Louis Walker and Eva Cassidy. He has co-written songs with Dave Alvin and Coco Montoya. MacLeod's songs have been featured in many TV movies and the hit show In the Heat of the Night. Two of his songs are on Grammy nominated albums by Albert King and Albert Collins.

From 1999 to 2004 he hosted Nothin' But The Blues, a very popular weekend blues show on Los Angeles' KLON-KKJZ. He has also been the voice for The Blues Showcase on Continental Airlines and contributed his soulful slide guitar playing to the Los Angeles opening of the August Wilson play "Gem of the Ocean". For ten years he penned "Doug's Back Porch," a regular feature column in Blues Revue Magazine in which he shared his humorous and insightful stories with thousands of readers. He won the Golden Note Award in 1997 for his AudioQuest album "You Can't Take My Blues". In 2006 Solid Air/Warner Bros. released Doug's guitar instructional DVD "101* Blues Guitar Essentials".

MacLeod signed with Reference Recordings in 2012. His new album "There’s A Time" was released in March of 2013. In every note he performs and records, MacLeod subscribes to the rule-of-thumb learned from country bluesman Ernest Banks from Toano VA. who instilled in him to "Never play a note you don't believe", and "Never write or sing about what you don't know about."

Like the old masters who taught him, MacLeod's music expresses life and times via an intangible, elusive quality that may simply be a keen sense of what matters most. There is a philosophic and healing side to MacLeod's music and his stories that has helped others overcome the hardships of their lives. As Pee Wee Crayton's widow Esther once told Doug, "You have a message and you'll send that message mainly to the people who don't go to church."

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