McClinton began playing the guitar as a young teenager. Soon, he formed a band called The Straitjackets, who served as the house band at Jack’s, a club in Fort Worth, Texas. At the age of 19, he was ...

Delbert McClinton in the studio with Lyle Lovett recording “Too Much Stuff” for McClinton’s 1997 album “One of the Fortunate Few.” Texas music journalist Diana Finlay Hendricks uses the album’s title ...

There's a symphony of hard times in Delbert McClinton's rich Texas drawl. It's in his lyrics - ballads of loss, longing and an irrepressible desire to keep going - and behind the sting in his wit. And ...

Delbert McClinton's voice has the grainy texture and booming blast of a tenor saxophone, but there are many singers like that. What makes McClinton distinctive is the way he uses his voice like a drum ...