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Don Wilcock was nominated for Music Journalist of the Year in the 2019 inaugural Capital Region Eddies Awards. He began writing about music for The Army Reporter at U.S. Army Headquarters, Vietnam. He’s written columns for NYS Music, Metroland, The Saratogian, and The Troy Record; and edited several music magazines including King Biscuit Times, BluesPrint and Blues Wax. He wrote Buddy Guy’s authorized biography Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, and his interviews with more than 6000 artists from Jerry Garcia and James Brown to Derek Trucks have appeared in publications around the world.

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Looking back at Mountain Snow & Mistletoe, 12/13/2007

Don Wilcock Dec 21, 2020
Editor's Note: Mountain Snow and Mistletoe was a yearly concert that Chris Shaw and Bridget Ball did to celebrate the holidays here in the Capital Region. Nearly every year…
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Flashback: Rock Star Jim Dandy – Macho Imagery and Down-home Religion

Don Wilcock Dec 12, 2020
Editor's Note: This article was written by Don Wilcock and originally appeared in the Troy Record on October 19, 1975. Four guitars flash and clash in a cacophony…
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Rearview Mirror: Victor Wooten Takes A Hard Look at himself

Don Wilcock Dec 10, 2020
Originally ran in the The Troy Record on December, 2000. To most of his fans, Victor Wooten is the bass player in Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, the band that took the…
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Thanksgiving’s Theme Song: Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant…

Don Wilcock Nov 26, 2020
Folk singer-songwriter and storyteller, Arlo Guthrie, who changed the paradigm of late ’60s folk music with his song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” returns to Carnegie…
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Billy Joe Shaver Will “Live Forever” in Our Hearts

Don Wilcock Nov 6, 2020
Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson have each built a reputation in part as a result of covering his songs. Billy Joe Shaver may never have…
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LIVE: Soul Serenade @ Powers Park, Troy, 8/8/2020

Don Wilcock Aug 9, 2020
Break on through to the other side with every breath we take Five months and three days! That’s how long it’s been since I last heard music live. It’s been that long…
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Rearview Mirror: The Story of Mary Wilson of the Supremes

Don Wilcock Jul 9, 2020
Nowhere in half a century of interviewing musicians has the stupidity of racism been brought into sharper focus than in the story of The Supremes’ experience on tour at a…
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Charlie Daniels Passes at 83

Don Wilcock Jul 7, 2020
Editor’s note: Don Wilcock is currently writing his memoirs, looking back at 51 years starting with Sounds from The World, a column he wrote for “grunts” in the rice patties…
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