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 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 ...

There's a symphony of hard times in Delbert McClinton's rich Texas drawl. It's in his lyrics - ballads of loss, longing and an irrepressible desire to keep going - and behind the sting in his wit. And ...

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 His new album Outdated Emotion returns McClinton to the music that he heard growing up in Fort Worth.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1972, Texans Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark had already been a part of the Texas music scene for ten years. They recorded Delbert & Glen (1972) for Koch, inaugurating two careers, McClinton's ...