Jazz Articles about Mark McDonald

Mark McDonald: Great Long Time

by Allen Goldberg
July 5, 2002

Want the flavor of old time front porch Delta and Country blues, with swampy smooth slide guitar, crisp acoustic solo licks and racked rythm harmonica? On Great Long Time, Mark McDonald performs seven of his original tunes, along with four classics which will be familiar to all blues aficionados. The disc’s excellent quality is revealed by the clarity in the lyrics, without the usual mumbling, slurring and marbles in the mouth sounds so often heard in more inferior blues captures. ...