"Like all great blues men, MacLeod lives his music, and the songs are not just on the tips of his fingers and tongue, they are one with his being.” - Blues Music Magazine. "One of the great blues artists......period!" - Jorma Kaukonen. Doug, nominated for the 2020 Blues Music Acoustic Artist Of The Year, is a multiple Blues Music Award winner. He recently received the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of The Year ‘Break The Chain’ and the 2017 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year. His songs have been covered by many artists including Eva Cassidy, Albert King and Albert Collins. MacLeod is known for his songwriting, storytelling, guitar wizardry, warm soulful vocals, wit and unforgettable live performances. Like the old masters who taught him, MacLeod's music expresses life and times through an intangible, elusive quality that may simply be a keen sense of what matters most. As Doug says the most important lessons he learned as a young musician came from Ernest Banks a one-eyed country bluesman from Toano, VA. "Never play a note you don't believe” and "Never write or sing about what you don't know about.”
