Lonnie Mack
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Biography
[Edit]When Lonnie Mack sings the blues, country strains are sure to infiltrate. Conversely, if he digs into a humping rockabilly groove, strong signs of a deep-down blues influence are bound to invade; par for the course for any musician who cites both Bobby Bland and George Jones as pervasive influences.
Fact is, Mack's lightning-fast, vibrato-enriched, whammy bar-hammered guitar style has influenced many a picker, too, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, who idolized Mack's early singles for Fraternity and later co-produced and played on Mack's 1985 comeback LP for Alligator, Strike Like Lightning.
Growing up in rural Indiana not far from Cincinnati, Lonnie McIntosh was exposed to a heady combination of R&B and hillbilly. In 1958, he bought the seventh Gibson Flying V guitar ever manufactured and played the roadhouse circuit around Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Mack has steadfastly cited another local legend, guitarist Robert Ward, as the man whose watery-sounding Magnatone amplifier inspired his own use of the same brand.
Session work ensued during the early '60s behind Hank Ballard, Freddy King, and James Brown for Cincy's principal label, Syd Nathan's King Records. At the tail-end of a 1963 date for another local label, Fraternity Records, Mack stepped out front to cut a searing instrumental treatment of Chuck Berry's "Memphis." Fraternity put the number out, and it leaped all the way up to the Top Five on Billboard's pop charts!
Its hit follow-up, the frantic "Wham!," was even more amazing from a guitar-playing perspective with Mack's lickety-split whammy-bar-fired playing driven like a locomotive by a hard-charging horn section. Mack's vocal skills were equally potent; R&B stations began to play his soul ballad "Where There's a Will" until they discovered Mack was Caucasian, then dropped it like a hot potato. Its flip, a sizzling vocal remake of Jimmy Reed's "Baby, What's Wrong," was a minor pop hit in late 1963.
Mack waxed a load of killer material for Fraternity during the mid-'60s, much of it not seeing the light of day until later on. A deal with Elektra Records inspired by a 1968 Rolling Stone article profiling Mack should have led to major stardom, but his three Elektra albums were less consistent than the Fraternity material. (Elektra also reissued his only Fraternity LP, the seminal The Wham of That Memphis Man.) Mack cameoed on the Doors' Morrison Hotel album, contributing a guitar solo to "Roadhouse Blues," and worked for a while as a member of Elektra's A&R team.
Disgusted with the record business, Mack retreated back to Indiana for a while, eventually signing with Capitol and waxing a couple of obscure, country-based LPs. Finally, at Vaughan's behest, Mack abandoned his Indiana comfort zone for hipper Austin, TX, and began to reassert himself nationally. Vaughan masterminded the stunning Strike Like Lightning in 1985; later that year, Mack co-starred with Alligator labelmates Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan at Carnegie Hall (a concert marketed on home video as Further on Down the Road).
Mack's Alligator encore, Second Sight, was a disappointment for those who idolized Mack's playing — it was more of a singer/songwriter project. He temporarily left Alligator in 1988 for major-label prestige at Epic, but Roadhouses and Dancehalls was too diverse to easily classify and died a quick death. Mack's 1990 album, Live! Attack of the Killer V, was captured on tape at a suburban Chicago venue called FitzGerald's and once again showed why Lonnie Mack is venerated by anyone who's even remotely into savage guitar playing.
Title: Roadhouses & Dance Halls
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll, Country
Title: For Collectors Only
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll, Country, Pop
Title: For Collectors Only (The Wham Of That Memphis Man) (US Release)
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock
Title: Live! Attack Of The Killer V
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Rock, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: From Nashville To Memphis
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Live! - Attack of the Killer V
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Memphis / Wham! - Single
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Rhino Hi-Five: Lonnie Mack
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll
Collections
Title: Instrumental Gold (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Hits of Pop & Doo Wop, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: 60 Instrumental Golden Oldies
Genre: Pop
Title: The 50 Best Instrumental Rock Songs Ever
Genre: Pop
Title: Hits, Hits, & Hits, Vol. 5
Genre: Rock
Title: The Greatest Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Ace's Golden Age of American Hits Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Top of the Chart & Doo Wop, Vol. 2
Genre: Rock
Title: United States of Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Chill Out Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 20 Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest Blues: The Forces of Nature
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Star Spangled Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Chill Out Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Memories of Doo Wop and More, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Alligator Records 40th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Sweet Blues- 23 Rare Blues Tracks
Genre: Blues
Title: Weatherman Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Hard Rockin' Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 150 Rock 'N' Roll Classics (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Rockin' Instrumentals (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: The Great American Blues: Memphis, Tennessee
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Instrumentals
Genre: Blues
Title: Automobile Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Rockin' Those Blues Away
Genre: Blues
Title: The Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Outlaw Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues - Guitar Greats
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar
Genre: Blues
Title: Choose Up Compilation, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul
Title: The Best in Instrumentals, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: The Premier Instrumental Hits, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop, Instrumental
Title: Contemporary Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Bluesin' USA
Genre: Blues
Title: Rare Acoustic Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Falling In Love With the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Guitar Heroes of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Geography
Genre: Blues
Title: A Beginners Guide to: Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Rainy Day Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Across America
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues Gems
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Meets Soul/R&B
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Discover - American Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues with a Big Beat
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock & Roll Instrumentals
Genre: Pop
Title: The Most Essential Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Discover - Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Scene 1980s
Genre: Blues
Title: Party Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Soul Experimentalism
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar Deluxe
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Southern Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best Ever Rock & Roll Revival
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Rockin' Instrumentals
Genre: Rock
Title: Traveling Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Discover Modern Blues Guitarists
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Club Sounds - 25 (Live)
Genre: Blues
Title: Hoochie Mamas of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Instrumentals of Rock & Roll
Genre: Rock
Title: Rock Instrumentals
Genre: Rock