My Favorite, Top Ten Songs by Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton - born in Lubbock, Texas, on November 4, 1940 - is an artist, one of my favorites. His style is a great mix of honky-tonk upright piano, harmonica, sax and horns. It's a great, unique sound.

Delbert probably like most, started in bars and ended in a band called the Straight Jackets backing blues legends, Sony Boy Williams II,
Howlin Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed.

#1 "When Rita Leaves" from his album Nothing Personal is my # uno because I can play along with my guitar and sing it a little with him.

#2 "All There is of Me".......Stormy Monday style 12 bar blues key of A, with heavy bar room.

#3 "Nothing Last Forever".........Rocking 12 bars up-tempo...bar room harmonica

#4 "Read Me My Rights".........love the lyrics " have I got a right to love Ya...........do I have to leave ya" Baby Baby read me my rights."

#5 "Nevermine"............ slow ballad I want to dance with my avatar girlfriend.

#6 "Birmingham Tonight".....great Appalachian Harmony...great song for a trucker headed from Chicago to Birmingham.

#7 "All Night Long".......up tempo honky tonk piano..........she spent all night long loving me.

#8 "Don't Leave Home Without It" ................slow dance with me darlin makes me wanna tell you I love ya kinda song.

#9 "Gotta Get it Worked On"........got a flavor of Louisiana bayou sound........."it ain't gonna kill ya your not gonna but you better get it worked on"

#10 "Givin it Up for Your Love" is his only Top Forty Song, off his 1980 album The Jealous Kind. This one ranks #10
It's a great tune, a lot of horns and makes me wanna move.

Thanks to my good friend Bobby G; he turn me on to this guy in 2003 at spring training in Arizona.