Thursday September 30, at Artword Artbar, 15 Colbourne St., at 8 pm, $10. A special concert by acclaimed touring roots-Delta-bluesman Doc MacLean with his National Steel guitar. http://darkerwaysbluestour.blogspot.com/ http://www.docmaclean.com/
National Steel Darker Ways Blues Tour: 5th Annual Blues Event will be 100 Solo Shows. Darker Ways. Roads less travelled. Blue highways. Places found in the crease of the map. Encounters with strangers on strange days. A money candle in a broken window. It’s Doc MacLean, watching the tail light reflections tracking in the rear view mirror. Doc, drinking bourbon by the roadside. Doc with his battered 1929 National steel guitar.
Doc MacLean. He’s a blues vagabond writing from the dark side of the blues highway. He’s spent the last forty years exploring the road atlas from A to Z – surfacing sometimes on big stages in fancy halls, sometimes streetside trolling for change and a meal. No managers, agents, record companies. No fancy new guitars. He’s a traveller, a collector and teller of songs and stories – a songster in the blues tradition. Blues Revue magazine called him the Prince of Darkness.
Doc MacLean€™s National Steel €œDarker Ways€ Blues Tour. September through December 2010. One hundred shows, coast to coast. No venue too big or too small, no place too forsaken. Now booking and accepting expressions of interest from all Canadian territories. Bring The Blues to Your Town.
Darker Ways will be the 5th annual outing of the all acoustic, coast to coast National Steel Blues series. In a departure from large venue, songs and stories in the round presentations, Darker Ways will be a solo presentation focused more on smaller towns and smaller rooms. €œI€™m looking forward to exploring some deep blues in these settings,€ says Doc, €œI€™m planning the most intimate, story filled shows that I€™ve had a chance to do in years.€
