Delbert McClinton, known as an American music legend, recently followed up his Grammy Award-winning Nothing Personal album with a Grammy nomination for his latest CD, Room To Breathe. Born in Lubbock, Texas, he later moved to Ft. Worth where he started earning his "Ph.D" in real American music from first-class masters of the Blues. McClinton is a real Texas music treasure, who as harmonica man, has guested on albums with everyone from Roy Buchanan to Bonnie Raitt.

McClinton cut a number of local and regional singles before hitting the national charts in 1962 playing harmonica on Bruce Channel's now classic "Hey! Baby." On a subsequent package tour of England, Delbert showed some of his harp licks to the rhythm guitarist for a young band at the bottom of the bill. The lessons he gave John Lennon were later heard in hit singles by The Beatles.

In the early 1970s, McClinton and his Ft. Worth pal Glen Clark headed out to Los Angeles where they cut two albums for Atlantic Records as Delbert & Glen. Returning to Texas, he landed a deal with ABC Records. With the release of his 1975 solo debut, Victim of Life's Circumstances, McClinton firmly stamped his Ft. Worth-bred blend of blues, country and blue-eyed soul onto the pop musical landscape. A succession of influential and critically acclaimed albums followed, then last year, when Delbert "came roaring out of the gate on Nothing Personal," as Rolling Stone put it, his stature as one of the living icons of genuine American music returned to the forefront. The album debuted on five Billboard charts: Hot 200 Albums, Blues, Country, Independent and Internet Sales.

With a Grammy nomination for his latest CD, which was produced by Delbert with long-time collaborator Gary Nicholson, Room To Breathe features 12 new songs, all of which he wrote or co-wrote.

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