Doc is a weathered, wily, but infinitely likeable storyteller/performer. Writing from the dark side of the blues highway. Telling songs and singing stories. This blues came from the Mississippi delta. But before that, it came from Africa. Passed down from mouth to mouth. More than music. A placement of the human spirit. Doc’s early…
(Photographer – Stefan Hurter) A tossing of the bones. The storyteller returns… Doc MacLean’s fourth African tour, N’ganga Blues, kicks off on the 10th January 2020 in Pringle Bay and finds him returning to many of the places visited on his previous adventures. The “World’s Biggest Little Blues Tour” will touch most parts of South…
Doc Maclean is a blues vagabond, a weathered, wily, but infinitely likeable storyteller/performer. Writing from the dark side of the blues highway. Doc explored and resided in the American rural south at a time when it was much less visited than it is today, and had mentors like Son House, Peg Leg Sam, and Sam…
Doc MacLean’s second African tour, “Cross Bones Blues,” finds him returning to many of the places he visited on his previous, “Zulu Skies” adventure. As if that Tour wasn’t big enough, Cross Bones includes nearly 50 shows. From the gala Tour launch at the Canadian High Commission to the massive OppiKoppi Festival, to theatres, cafes,…
Doc is a weathered, wily, but infinitely likable storyteller/performer. Writing from the dark side of the blues highway, Doc’s distinctive vocals and bare fingers National guitar plot an intense, emotional remapping of contemporary Delta blues and roots music. Son of a civil rights lawyer and a fiddle player, MacLean was by his early teens playing…