E9568 - Delbert McClinton: Six Decades of Texas Blues and Late-Career Grammys

In 1962, a 22-year-old from a Texas bar band cornered John Lennon backstage at a UK club and gave him a harmonica lesson, and for Delbert McClinton that was barely the prologue. Born in Lubbock in 1940 and raised in Fort Worth from age eleven, he came up in the Straitjackets, a roadhouse band that backed touring giants like Sonny Boy Williamson II, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed. His harmonica riff drove Bruce Channel's international smash Hey! Baby, and after a minor 1965 hit with the Ron-Dels, he relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, formed the duo Delbert and Glen with...