Delbert McClinton will be 72 in November.
It doesn’t seem possible that Delbert McClinton will be 72 in November, but he has been active in music business s for 40 years now, since he started in 1972.
Nobody in my opinion epitomizes road house blues better than McClinton. He sings what I call driving road house blues.
Surprisingly McClinton only has had one song that reached the Top 10 in Giving It Up For Your Love peaked at No.8 on the U.S. charts, 32 years ago when he was 40 years old in 1980.
However he has had four No.1 albums on the blues chart. McClinton won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Contemporary Blues Album Cost of Living. He had won a Grammy in 1991, for a duet with Bonnie Raitt when they sang Good Man, Good Woman.
In addition to his vocals, McClinton plays harmonica, piano and guitar. He wrote Two More Bottles of Wine which topped the charts at No.1 in 1978 for Emmy Lou Harris.
Delbert McClinton singing Thank You Baby in a song that rocks with the roadhouse blues sound.
McClinton singing Shaky Ground on Austin City Limits in 1989.
McClinton singing his No.8 hit Giving It Up For Your Love.
Delbert slows it down with Dreams To Remember
Bekka Bramlett joins Delbert on She’s Living It Up on Austin City Limits.
Delbert singing Squeeze Me In on a Sandy Beaches Cruise in January of 2012 at the age of 71.
Tanya Tucker and Delbert singing their No.4 duet hit Tell Me About It.
