Lonnie Mack (born Lonnie McIntosh, 18 July 1941, Dearborn County, Indiana) is a rock and blues guitarist/vocalist. In the early 1960s, he recorded several full-length rock guitar instrumentals strongly grounded in the blues, the best-known of which are "Memphis", "Wham!", "Chicken Pickin'" and "Suzie-Q". Mack's instrumentals from this period formed the leading edge of the virtuoso "blues-rock" guitar genre. The first of these, 1963's "Memphis", was described by music historian Richard T.
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- Lonnie Mack (born Lonnie McIntosh, 18 July 1941, Dearborn County, Indiana) is a rock and blues guitarist/vocalist. In the early 1960s, he recorded several full-length rock guitar instrumentals strongly grounded in the blues, the best-known of which are "Memphis", "Wham!", "Chicken Pickin'" and "Suzie-Q". Mack's instrumentals from this period formed the leading edge of the virtuoso "blues-rock" guitar genre. The first of these, 1963's "Memphis", was described by music historian Richard T. Pinnell, Ph. D. , as "a milestone of early rock guitar" and, in 1980, was ranked by Guitar World magazine as the premier "landmark" rock guitar recording to date. In 1992, music critic Jimmy Guterman rated Mack's first album, 1963's The Wham of that Memphis Man!, No. 16 in his book The 100 Best Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time. Mack's solos influenced a generation of rock guitarists. Lonnie Mack is also known for his "blue-eyed soul" ballads, and the diversity of his repertoire, which, at various times, emphasized country, blues, rockabilly, southern rock, R&B, roots-rock, bluegrass and gospel. Mack released numerous singles and thirteen original albums from 1963 to 1990. He enjoyed commercial and critical success as a blues-rock recording artist during the 1960s and the latter half of the 1980s. However, an aversion to fame and its trappings led him to switch styles and even idle his career for lengthy periods. This may explain his simultaneous appearance, years later, in both "100 Greatest Rock Guitarists" and "Forgotten Greats and Unsung Heroes" lists. Today he is widely regarded as a ground-breaking rock guitarist, whose artistic impact far outreaches his commercial accomplishments. Beyond his career as a solo artist, Mack recorded with The Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Brown, Freddie King, Joe Simon, Ronnie Hawkins, Albert Collins, Roy Buchanan, Dobie Gray and the sons of blues legend Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, among others.
- Lonnie Mack, vlastním jménem Lonnie McIntosh je významný americký rockový a bluesový kytarista. Jeho kariéra začala v první polovině 50. let, když opustil školu a stal se profesionálním muzikantem. V roce 1962 on a jeho skupina nahrávala hudební podklady pro dívčí trio The Charmaines a na konci si pronajali studio, aby mohli nahrát instrumentální verzi Berryho skladby Memphis Tennessee, pod názvem Memphis. Instrumentálka Memphis se v létě roku 1963 vyšplhala až na 5. místo v žebříčku.
- Lonnie Mack(Lonnie McIntosh), est un chanteur de rock'n'roll, blues et country américain, né à Harrison, Ohio, le 18 juillet 1941.
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- Lonnie Mack in Rising Sun, Indiana, 2003.
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- 1983 essay "Blue-Eyed Soul: Colour Me Soul"
- Brown & Newquist
- Guitar Player, April 1985, p33
- Guitar World, May, 1984, pp. 55-56
- I was playin' at the Rome Inn in Austin, and we had just hit the opening chords of "Wham!" when this big guy walked in. He looked just like a great big bear. As soon as I looked at his face, I realized who he was, and naturally he was blown away to hear us doing his song. [W]e talked for a long time that night. [Lonnie said] he wanted to produce us.
- In all, it is not an exaggeration to say that Lonnie Mack was well ahead of his time....His bluesy solos pre-dated the pioneering blues-rock guitar work of Jeff Beck... Eric Clapton... and Mike Bloomfield... by nearly two years. Considering that ''they'' [were] 'before their time', the chronological significance of Lonnie Mack for the world of rock guitar is that much more remarkable.
- John Densmore
- Legends of Rock Guitar, Hal Leonard Co., 1997, p. 25
- Lonnie sat down in front of the paisley baffles that soak up the sound. A hefty guy with a pencil-thin beard, he had on a wide-brimmed hat that had become his trademark. Lonnie Mack epitomized the blues---not the rural blues, but the city blues; he was bad. "I'll sing the lyrics for you," Jim [Morrison] offered meekly. [Morrison] was unusually shy. We all were, because to us, the guitar player we had asked to sit in with us was a living legend.
- Mack's taste and judgement are super-excellent. Every aspect of his guitar bears a direct relationship to the sound and meaning of the song. [H]is voice is strong without straining and of great range and personality. [I]f this isn't the best rock recording of the season, its the solidest.
- May 3, 1969, p. 28
- Riders On The Storm, Dell, 1990, p. 235
- Rolling Stone
- Sandmel
- Sandmel, "Rock Pioneer Lonnie Mack In Session With Stevie Ray Vaughan"
- Ultimately — for consistency and depth of feeling — the best blue-eyed soul is defined by Lonnie Mack's ballads and virtually everything The Righteous Brothers recorded. Lonnie Mack wailed a soul ballad as gutsily as any black gospel singer. The anguished inflections which stamped his best songs ("Why?", "She Don't Come Here Anymore" and "Where There's a Will") had a directness which would have been wholly embarrassing in the hands of almost any other white vocalist.
- [Mack's early work] was an aggressive, sophisticated, original and fully-realized sound, developed by a kid from the sticks. It's questionable we'd have incandescent moments like [[Cream (band)|Cream]]'s [1968] rendition of "Crossroads" without Lonnie Mack's ground-breaking arrangements five years earlier.
- music critic Bill Millar
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- Lonnie Mack, vlastním jménem Lonnie McIntosh je významný americký rockový a bluesový kytarista. Jeho kariéra začala v první polovině 50. let, když opustil školu a stal se profesionálním muzikantem. V roce 1962 on a jeho skupina nahrávala hudební podklady pro dívčí trio The Charmaines a na konci si pronajali studio, aby mohli nahrát instrumentální verzi Berryho skladby Memphis Tennessee, pod názvem Memphis.
- Lonnie Mack(Lonnie McIntosh), est un chanteur de rock'n'roll, blues et country américain, né à Harrison, Ohio, le 18 juillet 1941.
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