Change of Pace

I had to change the name from Tuesday Tunes as Clive over at Take It Easy has used that name for years, so welcome to Dawg Whistles, enjoy.

Today I’m jumping off with Delbert McClinton For Tuesday Tunes

Early in his career he was in a bar band called the Straitjackets who backed such bands as “Howlin’ Wolf”, “Sonny Boy Williamson II”, Jimmy Reed” and “Lightin’ Hopkins”

Four of his albums have been number 1 on the Blues chart, and another reached number 2. On a tour with Channel in the United Kingdom, McClinton instructed John Lennon on the finer points of blues harmonica playing.

McClinton’s 1980 album, The Jealous Kind, contained his only Top 40 hit single, “Giving It Up for Your Love”, which peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 35 Adult Contemporary. He was inactive in the studio during much of the 1980s, though he toured heavily.

Delbert closed the decade with the Grammy-nominated 1989 album Live from Austin, recorded during an appearance on the television program Austin City Limits and co-produced by sax sideman Don Wise, who went on to become a longtime fixture in the band.

In 1991 McClinton won a Grammy Award for a duet with Bonnie Raitt, “Good Man, Good Woman”, and reached the Top 5 of the Country chart with “Tell Me About It”, a duet with Tanya Tucker. He re-entered the Billboard charts in 1992 with the album Never Been Rocked Enough, which included the charting single “Every Time I Roll the Dice” and a cover of John Hiatt’s “Have a Little Faith in Me”.

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