Welcome
After shelving his dream of a career in music, Bill McCulloch tended bar in a Chicago tavern for a couple of years, and then drifted into newspaper journalism. He stayed for 25 years, working as a reporter, city editor, and editor for daily papers in the Upper Midwest and New England. For a brief period, he also owned a small weekly paper in rural Michigan. After moving to North Carolina in 1989, he turned to writing full time. Among other projects, he teamed up with folklorist Barry Lee Pearson to research and write articles about influential blues artists for American National Biography, a major reference work, and publish a critically praised book debunking the fanciful legends about Depression-era blues artist Robert Johnson. In 2016 McCulloch published "A Dandy Little Game," a novel set on the fringes of Chicago's underworld during World War II. During and after his career in journalism, McCulloch moonlighted as blues singer Windy City Slim. And, yes, he's still singing. He now lives in Madison, Mississippi, with his partner, Carolyn Cooper, a memoirist and retired nursing educator.