Biography
Ted Maclin made his first musical instrument while he was in high school: a flute made from the stem of a Devil’s Walking Stick. As a child he stayed awake at night listening to the sounds of the Tay-May Club in Keeling, Tennessee. He began playing guitar publicly in New York at a local jam in the 1990s where jugs and washboards made regular appearances.
In the early 2000s, he was a member of The Deryls and the Roughbark Candyroasters in Athens, Georgia, where he played guitar, bass, banjo, and traded off on vocals. On returning to Tennessee, he joined the Last Chance Jug Band as jug and washboard player in 2014.
Ted has also performed on stage in the lead role of Dr. Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein the Musical (vocals) and as Johnny Cash in Million Dollar Quartet (guitar and vocals)–both at the historic Ruffin Theater in Covington, Tennessee.
As you might expect from an anthropologist, his music is as much about stories as it is about songs.