Okay, it’s about time I covered one of the other great guitarists to have hit the music scene. Lonnie Mack has such a killer style of guitar playing and a voice like no other, suited perfectly for the blues. The man’s got a lot of soul and has played and recorded with some of the best in the business including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan, among many others. i found a bunch of great footage from two big concerts, one with SRV and Double Trouble at the Orpheum Theater and another with a variety of guests at Carnegie Hall. All the clips I’ve seen were outstanding and it made me wish I was sitting there in the audience with all the other fans. While it was hard to choose, I narrowed it down to three videos for this post. I purposely shared videos that I haven’t shared on my Facebook page before and these three made it. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Lonnie Mack and his band played with a variety of guests at Carnegie Hall in 1986. But he and his band played a few on their own as well. Here’s one of the band’s songs, “Satisfy Susie,” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhX1lfWZaNw.
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Next Lonnie Mack wrote a hit instrumental song called, “Wham!” that really set the tone for a lot of guitarists that came after him. Here’s a live performance of the song with SRV and Double Trouble at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfgBlkSoqc.
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Lastly, what better way to finish up the post than a stripped down acoustic version of “Falling Back In Love With You.” I really enjoyed this version of the song and hope you do too at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQCXM6DIns.
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Lonnie Mack is one of the greatest guitarists to ever hit the scene. It’s really saying something when SRV is looking up to you. There’s more coming your way at Blues Guitar Unleashed so stay tuned!
Thanks,
Griff
10 replies to "Blues With Some Rock And Country Mixed In From Lonnie Mack"
I once heard a radio interview with SRV where Stevie reminisces about the first album he ever owned. It was a Lonnie Mack album that had Wham! on it. Stevie said he spent hours in his room with Wham on the turntable trying to learn every note of that song. He also mentions that on his El Macambo video. I had the great pleasure of seeing Lonnie Mack play live in the early nineties in a small blues club in St Paul, MN. HIs encour was Oreo Cookie Blues. He sat on the edge of the stage playing and singing and throwing Oreo Cookies to the audience. It gave me a feeling like we were all in Lonnie’s living room hanging out and listening to him play. After the show he stayed around and talked to anyone that would listen to his stories. I got to shake his hand and thank him for all his music. It was a great night!!
I’m a big Lonnie Mack fan. Our band plays Oreo Cookie Blues, there is some great acoustic and slide guitar work in that song.
Doug
Once again, Thanks for these posts. You have me looking for them now. Oh, just received you Strumming and Rhythm course. Just what I needed. This for me has always been trouble some. Now I know I will get it worked out. Jim
Thanks Griff, that was nice. I had never heard of Lonnie Mack.
Another Great post!
Griff, I liked this one enough to finally go and Buy some Lonnie Mack music on Itunes! Thanks !
Very entertaining! Give us some more Griff! Thanks.
Man Griff, what a show. Thank you so much for all you do for us. You are the best teacher I’ve ever had. I look forward to seeing your mail, I’m never disappointed.
Griff: I guess Flying V’s are cooler than I thought. Lonnie’s has a whammy bar too!
Satisfy Susie has that proto-funk sound. Great stuff! ( still-Oreo Cookie Blues is my favorite)
Thanks for this Griff.
Never heard these before. Falling Back is just beautiful… love the tone of his voice. Please keep these coming and thanks a million Griff.
Truly a great artist…kinda reminds me of Dave Van Rok…enjoyed…yhe Good