John McDonald has been playing/singing the blues for over 40 years. He began in his native Massachusetts playing in local coffee houses in Boston, Cambridge and Worcester. He moved
to Bloomington, Indiana in 1980 to attend school and continued to play solo locally including opening for Muddy Waters at a local concert. John next moved to Davis, California to attend graduate school and started a band called "Buddy Funk" that became popular in the Sacramento/Davis and San Francisco Bay area.
He next moved to Athens, Georgia to take a faculty position at the University of Georgia (Genetics) and started a blues band called "the unforgiven" that played regularly in the Athens/Atlanta area. In 2016 the band broke up ("...we
got sick of hauling equipment around and not getting to bed until 3AM and then having to get up to attend our day jobs the next morning..."). Since 2017, John has been playing and recording solo in the Athens/Atlanta area. His music is still rooted in the blues but he also enjoys playing music by Guy Clark, John Hiatt, Ry Coder and, his good friend, Eric Dahl.
His latest album "Even Cowboys Get the Blues" was released on January 1, 2020 and is available for down-loading on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and most other outlets. Hard copies of the CD can be ordered on-line at CD-baby (https://store.cdbaby.com) and are available at Wuxtry Records in Athens.
John had a release party for the album at No. 3 Railroad Street on January 10, 2020.
Outside music, John currently spends his weekdays serving as Director of the Integrated Cancer Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is happy to spend most
weekends at his house on Lake Oglethorpe in Arnoldsville, GA.
Artist on the Web:
John McDonald in Concert, Friday, March 13, 2020
Doors Open at 6, Potluck at 6:30 and Music at 7. Bring a dish if you want to eat.
A donation is requested for John and some for Mary to support No. 3 Railroad Street.
Parking on site is limited. Overflow parking is across the street in the church parking lot
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