DOUG MacLEOD

    Doug MacLeod es músico que le gusta explicar la Historia del Blues mientras se acompaña     
    con su Dobro. 
                                                    

                                                           
               

                                                   
             

March 14, 2013 - Doug MacLeod with "A Ticket Out" in the Bing Lounge at 101.9 KINK.FM. Presented by Intel.

Doug MacLeod (born April 21, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American storytelling bluesman. Although now associated with his home in Los Angeles, he has lived and worked in North Carolina, St. Louis, Port Washington, New York, and Norfolk, Virginia, where he was stationed in the United States Navy. He became acquainted with the blues in St Louis in his teens and started his career playing country blues on acoustic guitar, finding that singing eased a chronic stutter and helped him to eventually overcome it. Although predominantly associated with acoustic guitar, his skills were developed as a blues bass player, and honed by his subsequent journeys into jazz and electric blues.

MacLeod's formative blues instruction is attributed to a man he knew as Ernest Banks who also gave him the guiding principles of his music and performances:

“Never play a note you don't believe”

“Never write or sing about what you don't know about”

He also formed a strong friendship with George "Harmonica" Smith who not only became his mentor, but also the source or experience for many of his songs and stories in his live performances. Unable or unwilling to use his correct name, George always called him "Dubb", a name also adopted by his loyal followers, the DubbHeads.