#193 – Delbert McClinton – Blind, Crippled & Crazy


Few artists can still bring it like Delbert McClinton.  In a career that’s spanned over 50 years, he’s accomplished a great deal.  He had his first taste of success lending the signature harmonica part to Bruce Channel’s “Hey Baby.”  That was 1962.  Along the way, he’s won three Grammys and released 28 albums.  Yet he’s shown no sign of slowing down.

His latest release is Blind, Crippled & Crazy, a reunion with fellow Texan Glen Clark after a short 40 year hiatus.  The twelve track disc is full of the kind of humor that can only come from guys who have lived a lot, yet learned very little.  We talk reuniting with Clark after 40 years, advice he gave his son in the music business, and his yearly Sandy Beaches Cruise which is heading out again in the winter.