Doug MacLeod
Jan. 31st, 2008 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogThanks to a chance discovery a couple of weeks ago, I've been playing bluesman Doug MacLeod's music a lot lately, and have plans to dent the credit card soon getting some more of it, heh heh. I've had a query offlist from someone who (like me until recently) had never heard of MacLeod; by coincidence, I discovered that the new site established by the record industry, last.fm, encourages users to embed material in their own websites. Accordingly, here's a sample track:
Doug MacLeod Band – Send the Soul on Home (live)
The track's from the album The Doug MacLeod Band Live in 1991 Vol. 1, about which you can find more here: http://www.last.fm/music/Doug+MacLeod+Band/Live+in+1991+Volume+1. (My fave track on the album is in fact "Roll Like a River", which comes immediately before the one I've embedded above, but unfortunately it has a very long spoken introduction so is unsuitable as a taster.) This album was released back in the days when MacLeod was performing electric blues with a full band; some (not all) of the tracks have a feel a bit like Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits backing David Ackles on the latter's more ballad-like, less Brechtian songs.
Macleod's last half-dozen or so albums have been acoustic, with minimal (but superbly minimal!) backing, and are if anything even better. He coaxes noises out of an acoustic guitar I didn't know could be found there.
Doug MacLeod Band – Send the Soul on Home (live)
The track's from the album The Doug MacLeod Band Live in 1991 Vol. 1, about which you can find more here: http://www.last.fm/music/Doug+MacLeod+Band/Live+in+1991+Volume+1. (My fave track on the album is in fact "Roll Like a River", which comes immediately before the one I've embedded above, but unfortunately it has a very long spoken introduction so is unsuitable as a taster.) This album was released back in the days when MacLeod was performing electric blues with a full band; some (not all) of the tracks have a feel a bit like Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits backing David Ackles on the latter's more ballad-like, less Brechtian songs.
Macleod's last half-dozen or so albums have been acoustic, with minimal (but superbly minimal!) backing, and are if anything even better. He coaxes noises out of an acoustic guitar I didn't know could be found there.
