This exclusive excerpt from Diana Finlay Hendricks’s Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few (December 6, Texas A&M University Press) revisits a time when students from the University of Texas ...

As if Delbert McClinton’s voice wasn’t enough, embued with the grit and soul of a hundred Texas honky-tonks, his bank of memories from the past 60 years would comprise a book you’d want to read. As a ...

After over five decades in the music industry, 76-year-old Delbert McClinton is still trucking. Or, perhaps, cruising is a more appropriate metaphor—and sometimes literal reality—for his career. The ...

Delbert McClinton shines a light on his jazz influences with next year’s Prick of the Litter, a new album that splits the difference between Texas swing, Memphis soul and rootsy roadhouse twang. On ...

It’s hard to fit Americana music into a traditional category. It’s a little bit rock 'n' roll, a little soul, a lot of blues and more than a dash of country. Long before Americana started to become a ...

Delbert McClinton's life and times have given us such revealing and wry songs as "Victim of Life's Circumstances" and "One of the Fortunate Few," and he now proudly proclaims (via the title of his ...

Now and then, you might hear it said that someone was born to play the blues. For Lubbock, Texas native Delbert McClinton, that’s actually the case. “It’s not a matter of something I wanted to do.

Delbert McClinton describes his latest album Tall, Dark & Handsome, out July 26th, as “kind of a salute to Texas blues, the music I grew up on.” With respect to the always-succinct McClinton, it’s ...