Following his stay in the Navy, he settled in Los Angeles, where he was a much in-demand sideman for blues icons like George Harmonica Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Lowell Fulson, Big Mama Thornton, and others. By now a bandleader on his own, he released a debut album, No Road Back Home, in 1984, following it with a litany of studio and live albums, including Woman in the Street (1986), 54th and Vermont (1987), Ain't the Blues Evil (1991), Come to Find (1994), You Can't Take My Blues (1996), Unmarked Road (1997), Live as It Gets (1999), A Little Sin (2002), Where I Been (2006), and Brand New Eyes (2011). His songs were covered by a range of artists, from Albert King, Albert Collins, and Joe Louis Walker to Eva Cassidy, and in 2006 he released 101 Blues Guitar Essentials, an instructional guitar DVD. MacLeod hosted Nothin' But the Blues, a popular blues show on Los Angeles' KLON-KKJZ, from 1999 to 2004, and he was also the voice for The Blues Showcase on Continental Airlines. His feature column Doug's Back Porch ran regularly in Blues Revue Magazine for some ten years. Signing to Reference Recordings, MacLeod issued the album There's a Time on the imprint in 2013. Exactly Like This followed in 2015. After the concert set Live in Europe in 2016, MacLeod released Break the Chain in 2017. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi