Delbert McClinton’s upcoming performance at Rhythms Live Music Hall — the Triangle’s newest music venue — is the latest event in a career full of highlights. McClinton is a guy from Lubbock, Texas who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...