About
Forty-five years ago, Doc MacLean was playing Charlie Patton songs in Son House’s living room. More recently, he’s been driving across Africa with a battered National guitar and a small PA, playing in places where things are burning by the side of the road. Doc started on the Flying Fish…
Forty-five years ago, Doc MacLean was playing Charlie Patton songs in Son House’s living room. More recently, he’s been driving across Africa with a battered National guitar and a small PA, playing in places where things are burning by the side of the road.
Doc started on the Flying Fish label out of Chicago. With his musical partner, Colin Linden (Dylan, The Band, T-Bone Burnett), he played, toured and recorded with Sam Chatmon’s Barbeque Boys, Blind John Davis, Little Brother Montgomery, Sunnyland Slim, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee… Opened shows for Muddy Waters, John Hammond, Jr., Johnny Winter…
Now a celebrated, solo storyteller-songwriter in the delta tradition, Doc performs as many as 200 shows annually across Canada, the United States, Ireland, the UK, and greater southern Africa.
