Doc MacLean
Forty-five years ago Doc MacLean was playing Charlie Patton songs in Son House’s
living room. More recently he’s been self 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:
places where dreams mix with cold beer and red wine: places where joy and sorrow and
life and death crowd every moment. And then there’s Ireland, and the UK… and dates
across all of Canada’s provinces.
Doc began his career on the storied Flying Fish label out of Chicago. With his musical
partner, Colin Linden, he played, toured and recorded with Sam Chatmon’s Barbeque
Boys, Blind John Davis, Little Brother Montgomery, Sunnyland Slim, Sonny Terry &
Brownie McGhee, and a host of others. 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, United States, Ireland, UK, and
greater southern Africa. An excellent, real deal, festival, small theatre and small venue opportunity.
