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In the early 60s, Lonnie often worked as a session guitarist in Cincinatti for King Records, backing Freddie King and Hank Ballard, and for the small Fraternity label.At the end of one Fraternity session, the producer asked Lonnie and the band to play something for the remaining few minutes of the booking, so he launched into an instrumental re-working of Chuck Berry‘s ‘Memphis Tennessee’.
When Lonnie Mack sang the blues, country strains were sure to infiltrate. Conversely, if he dug into a humping rockabilly groove, strong signs of a deep-down blues influence were bound to invade, par for the course for any musician who cited both Bobby Bland and George Jones as pervasive influences.
22. Apr. 2016 · Lonnie Mack, the pioneering blues guitarist whose work helped expand and redefine his instrument's role in modern music, has died of natural causes at the age of 74.
Mack was closely identified with the distinctive-looking Gibson Flying V guitar that first appeared in 1958. When he was seventeen, he bought the seventh Flying V off the first-year production line, naming it “Number 7”. Mack released close to a dozen albums, playing a mix of blues, rock, country, R&B and rockabilly. He was inducted into ...
22. Apr. 2016 · Lonnie Mack, a guitarist and singer whose impassioned, fast-picking style on the early 1960s instrumentals “Memphis” and “Wham!” became a model for the blues-rock lead-guitar style and a seminal influence on a long list of British and American artists, died on Thursday in Nashville. He was 74.
21. Apr. 2016 · His early music bridged the gap between 1950s rockabilly and the psychedelic blues-rock of the '60s and '70s. At the age of 5, Mack learned his first guitar chords from his mother and began playing professionally in his early teens, working in clubs and roadhouses around Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. In 1958, he bought a Gibson Flying V number 7 ...
22. Apr. 2016 · Mack’s influences included rhythm and blues, country, gospel and rockabilly, and his work continues to be enjoyed and revered by successive generations of guitarists and fans. He recorded a number of singles and a total of 11 albums for labels including Fraternity, Elektra, Alligator, Epic and Capitol.
