McClinton began playing the guitar as a young teenager. Soon, he formed a band called The Straitjackets, who served as the house band at Jack’s, a club in Fort Worth, Texas. At the age of 19, he was ...

Delbert McClinton and his band the Straitjackets whipping the crowd into a frenzy around 1960. His new album Outdated Emotion returns McClinton to the music that he heard growing up in Fort Worth.

KURE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Grammy Award winner Delbert McClinton is the headlining act of the 26th Annual Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues & Jazz Festival. He brings his band, Delbert McClinton and ...

Delbert McClinton returns to the studio for the first time in three years for a new label and serves up the same old thing—the most informed and honest bastard child of country music and blues one ...

It's 1982, and eight of the finest musicians Delbert McClinton could muster surround him on stage. McClinton, wearing a New York Yankees T-shirt, jeans and aviator glasses, bangs out a steady beat on ...

Nope, he's not the nerd who resides in the business-page comic strip. Nor is he any relation to Bill. Delbert McClinton is a bona-fide legend of the rock and blues genres --- a guy whose resume ...

Delbert McClinton began his career in the late 50s, honing his harmonica skills in the blues clubs of Texas. He has played with legends, from Sonny Boy Williamson to Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin Hopkins.

In the early ’70s, way before the term Americana was coined, some artists were already deep into the sound. Delbert McClinton is near the top of that list. There just aren’t many of his peers still ...