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Don Wilcock Nippertown bio 2021

Now into his second half century as the warrior music journalist, Wilcock began his career writing “Sounds from The World” in Vietnam, a weekly reader’s digest of pop music news for grunts in the field for the then largest official Army newspaper in the world, The Army Reporter. He founded The New York Capital Region’s first alternative entertainment weekly Kite in 1970 and has written for Nippertown since its inception, Metroland, The Troy Record, The Saratogian, the weekly Journal newspapers, and Lotus Nexus. He’s edited BluesWax, FolkWax, The King Biscuit Times, Elmore Magazine, and also BluesPrint as founder of the Northeast Blues Society. Internationally, he’s written for The Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards program, Blues Matters and Blues World. His three books include the definitive Buddy Guy biography Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, Helena Blues and his yet-to-be published Even Rock Stars Get The Blues.