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KSDS Jazz 88's Jazz Live concludes its 2011 concert series with the traditional December blues show, in honor of their long-time announcer "T". Dec. 13, the Saville Theater will present veteran troubadour, storyteller, and country blues specialist Doug MacLeod at 8 p.m., in an intimate, one-man show.
MacLeod sings and accompanies himself on a National Delphi Resonator guitar, along with a stomping left foot. The bluesman has released 15 CDs and 7 EPs in his 30 year career.
He started singing initially to overcome a debilitating stutter.
After learning his craft, he seasoned himself with sideman gigs with some of the bigger names in the blues world, like Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, and George "Harmonica" Smith, who gave him his nickname "Dubb." MacLeod's fans are sometimes known as "dubb-heads."
The singer often tells stories before playing his tunes, a practice that began out of a fear that he would not have enough material to fill a show. At any rate, the stories, which are often quite funny, are as much a part of the MacLeod experience now as the music is.
MacLeod is a prolific songwriter, with more than 300 compositions to his credit. Even more impressive is who has covered those songs: Albert King, Joe Louis Walker, Albert Collins, and Papa John Creach, to name a few.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 general public, KSDS members: Free!
Photo courtesy Doug MacLeod
KSDS Jazz 88's Jazz Live concludes its 2011 concert series with the traditional December blues show, in honor of their long-time announcer "T". Dec. 13, the Saville Theater will present veteran troubadour, storyteller, and country blues specialist Doug MacLeod at 8 p.m., in an intimate, one-man show.
MacLeod sings and accompanies himself on a National Delphi Resonator guitar, along with a stomping left foot. The bluesman has released 15 CDs and 7 EPs in his 30 year career.
He started singing initially to overcome a debilitating stutter.
After learning his craft, he seasoned himself with sideman gigs with some of the bigger names in the blues world, like Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, and George "Harmonica" Smith, who gave him his nickname "Dubb." MacLeod's fans are sometimes known as "dubb-heads."
The singer often tells stories before playing his tunes, a practice that began out of a fear that he would not have enough material to fill a show. At any rate, the stories, which are often quite funny, are as much a part of the MacLeod experience now as the music is.
MacLeod is a prolific songwriter, with more than 300 compositions to his credit. Even more impressive is who has covered those songs: Albert King, Joe Louis Walker, Albert Collins, and Papa John Creach, to name a few.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 general public, KSDS members: Free!
Photo courtesy Doug MacLeod