Delbert McClinton - Live From Austin (Remastered) '1989 / 2023

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Maybe Someday Baby (Remastered) (03:41)
2. Lipstick Traces (Remastered) (03:39)
3. Standing On Shaky Ground (Remastered) (04:03)
4. Sandy Beaches (Remastered) (03:00)
5. Thank You Baby (Remastered) (03:32)
6. B Movie Boxcar Blues (Remastered) (04:23)
7. I've Got Dreams To Remember (Remastered) (04:28)
8. Let Me Be Your Lover (Remastered) (03:05)
9. Going Back To Louisiana (Remastered) (03:46)
10. You Are My Sunshine (Remastered) (02:59)
11. Givin' It Up For Your Love (Remastered) (04:40)


 moreDelbert McClinton was born in Lubbock, Texas, on November 4, 1940, and
grew up in Fort Worth. Discovering the blues in his teenage years, McClinton
quickly became an accomplished harmonica player and found plenty of work on the
local club scene, where musicians often made their living by playing completely
different styles of music on different nights of the week. His most prominent
early gig was with the Straitjackets, the house band at a blues/R&B club; it
gave McClinton the opportunity to play harp behind blues legends like Howlin'
Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Bobby "Blue" Bland. In 1960,
McClinton's cover of Williamson's "Wake Up Baby" made him the first white artist
to have a record played on the local blues station KNOK. McClinton's harmonica
was prominently featured on Fort Worth native Bruce Channel's 1962 number one
smash "Hey! Baby"; brought along for Channel's tour of England, McClinton wound
up giving harp lessons to a young John Lennon. Upon returning to the States,
McClinton founded a group called the Rondells (sometimes listed as the
Ron-Dels), which had a minor chart single in 1965 with "If You Really Want Me
To, I'll Go." Although the Rondells recorded for several different labels, wider
success eluded them and McClinton spent much of the '60s making the rounds of
the Texas club and roadhouse circuit, where his reputation kept growing
steadily.

In 1972, McClinton moved to Los Angeles, where he teamed up with Fort Worth
singer/songwriter Glen Clark as Delbert & Glen. Signed to the small Atlantic
affiliate Clean Records, Delbert & Glen recorded two albums in a mostly
country-rock vein, 1972's Delbert & Glen and 1973's Subject to Change. Neither
sold well and McClinton returned to Texas in 1974, where he was able to land a
solo deal with ABC on the strength of his emerging songwriting talent. His first
solo album, Victim of Life's Circumstances, was released in 1975; although he
was marketed as part of the emerging progressive country movement, McClinton's
music was too indebted to blues and R&B to neatly fit that tag. Genuine Cowhide
(1976) and Love Rustler (1977) followed with highly positive reviews, if not
much commercial attention, and other artists started to mine McClinton's catalog
for material; in 1978, Emmylou Harris took his "Two More Bottles of Wine" all
the way to the top of the country charts. A switch to Capricorn produced two
albums, 1978's Second Wind and 1979's Keeper of the Flame; the former featured
his original version of "B Movie Boxcar Blues," later a part of the Blues
Brothers repertoire. When Capricorn folded, he moved to the Muscle Shoals Sound
imprint and his 1980 label debut, The Jealous Kind, gave him his first Top 40
single in "Givin' It Up for Your Love," which hit on both the pop and country
charts.

Unfortunately, Muscle Shoals Sound folded not long after McClinton's follow-up,
1981's Plain from the Heart, and he subsequently took a long hiatus from
recording, concentrating instead on live performances. His next prominent
appearance was an acclaimed vocal turn on guitarist Roy Buchanan's 1986 album
Dancing on the Edge; that guest appearance helped land him a deal with
Alligator. In 1989, McClinton issued the comeback album Live from Austin, which
earned him his first Grammy nomination (for Best Contemporary Blues Album). He
signed with Curb in 1990, debuting that year with I'm with You, and moved to
Nashville, where he soon became a much-sought-after songwriter (often in tandem
with new partner Gary Nicholson) in the contemporary country field. Over the
next few years, McClinton placed material with stars like Wynonna, Vince Gill,
Lee Roy Parnell, and Martina McBride, among others. His biggest break, though,
came when he was tapped for a duet with Bonnie Raitt on 1991's Luck of the Draw,
the follow-up to her much-lauded comeback Nick of Time. The result, "Good Man,
Good Woman," brought McClinton his first Grammy for Best Rock Vocal, Duo or
Group, which suddenly raised his profile tenfold. He capitalized with 1992's
Never Been Rocked Enough, which featured not only his duet with Raitt, but also
guest appearances from Tom Petty and Melissa Etheridge, and his biggest hit
single since 1980, "Every Time I Roll the Dice." Later that year, he hit the
country charts with another duet, this time with Tanya Tucker on "Tell Me About
It." The song later appeared on McClinton's next album, 1993's simply titled
Delbert McClinton.

Despite enjoying the greatest commercial success of his career, McClinton's
relationship with Curb was beginning to sour. His next two albums were released
to comparatively little attention and he finally extricated himself from his
contract to sign with Rising Tide, a small label associated with Universal.
Released in 1997, One of the Fortunate Few was designed to restore McClinton to
his early-'90s stature, featuring an array of guest stars, including Vince Gill,
Patty Loveless, Lyle Lovett, Pam Tillis, B.B. King, John Prine, and Mavis
Staples. It was still definitely McClinton's show, however, and as such it
received mostly complimentary reviews; it also sold more than 250,000 copies
before Rising Tide went belly up. McClinton next returned in 2001 on the Austin,
Texas-based New West imprint with another acclaimed effort, Nothing Personal. It
proved to be one of the most popular recordings of his career, gaining
substantial airplay on Americana radio and ending up one of the year's biggest
hits on Billboard's blues chart; it also won him another Grammy for Best
Contemporary Blues Album. The impressive Cost of Living was released in 2005 on
New West Records. Acquired Taste followed in 2009. In 2013, after a 40-year
break, McClinton reunited with Clark for an album of new material, Blind,
Crippled and Crazy. In early 2017, McClinton flipped the switch stylistically.
He cut a collection of jazz-inflected tunes inspired by Johnny Mercer and Nat
King Cole, backed by his new band, the Self-Made Men. Prick of the Litter was
issued on Hot Shot in January; it went to two on Billboard's Blues Albums chart.
McClinton retained the Self-Made Men for his next album, 2019's Tall, Dark, And
Handsome; it would win the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album in 2020.

McClinton designed his 2022 album, Outdated Emotion, as a tribute to his musical
roots, so he alternated covers of Lloyd Price, Hank Williams, and Jimmy Reed
with originals in a similar vein. © Steve Huey



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