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: For Collectors Only (The Wham Of That Memphis Man) (US Release)
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues 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
Title: For Collectors Only
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll, Country, Pop
Title: Live! Attack Of The Killer V
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Rock, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Roadhouses & Dance Halls
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll, Country
Collections
Title: The Essential Hits, Vol. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Blues: Show Stoppers
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Texas Blues - Licks & Lightnings
Genre: Blues
Title: The Alligator Records 30th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: The Alligator Records 25th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Alligator Records 35th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Songs for Traveling
Genre: Blues
Title: Super Box of Rock, Vol. 2
Title: Rare Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Rare Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Millennium Rock Hits
Genre: Rock
Title: 50 Rockin' Instrumentals (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock
Title: Hits of Acoustic Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 6-Pack: Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Rock Gems
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Soul Food
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 20 Memphis Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Behind Bars
Genre: Blues
Title: Best Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 6-Pack Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: S. R. V.
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Acoustic, Instrumental
Title: All The... 60'S (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Crucial Rockin' Blues
Title: Rock Instrumental Classics, Volume 2
Genre: Rock
Title: Mojo - Beatlemania Volume 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Blues Ballads 27
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues About Food - The Alligator Records Playlists
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues 2005 Part 3 - 1960-1969 (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock & Roll, Country, Pop
Title: Loser Blues: 23 Rare Blues Tracks
Genre: Blues
Title: Slow Blues: 25 Rare Blues Tracks
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock-N-Roll Injection (CD2)
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Electric Blues 1980s
Genre: Blues
Title: Road Trip Blues Rock
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: US Hot 100 Hits Of 1963
Genre: Soul, Vocal Jazz, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Road Trip: Country Rock 2018
Genre: Country Rock
Title: Serious Business: Texas Blues Greats 2020
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: 100% Blues Ballads & Slow Blues 5CD Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock 'N' Roll Is Here To Stay
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Roadhouse Blues 2020
Genre: Blues
Title: 70s Styles (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Hard Rock, Punk, Heavy Metal, Funk
Title: Old Alabama Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock And Roll: British Classic Style (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Punk Rock
Title: Ain't Nothing But The Blues
Title: Roadhouse Essentials 2021 (CD1)
Genre: Blues, Rock, World Music, Country, Funk, Psychedelic, Indie, Classical, Folk
Title: Roadhouse Essentials (CD1)
Title: My Way. The Best Collection. Vol. 32
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: My Way. The Best Collection. Vol. 34
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: My Way. The Best Collection. Vol. 40
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Just Good Music Rock Mix
Title: Down To The Bar Country Music Edition 2023
Genre: Country