He began playing professionally in his early teens (he quit school after a fight with his sixth-grade teacher), working clubs and roadhouses around the tri-state border area of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In 1958, he bought the guitar he still plays today - Gibson Flying V serial number 7. In addition to his live gigs, Lonnie began playing sessions for the King and Fraternity labels in Cincinnati. He recorded with blues and r&b greats like Hank Ballard, Freddie King and James Brown.
Suddenly, he was booked for hundreds of gigs a year, crisscrossing the country in his Cadillac and rushing back to Cincinnati or Nashville to cut new singles. "Wham!," "Where There's A Will There's A Way," "Chicken Pickin'" and a dozen other records followed "Memphis." None sold as well as his first hit, but there was enough reaction to keep him on the road for another five years of grueling one-nighters.
Fraternity Records died, but Lonnie kept on gigging, and in 1968 a Rolling Stone article stimulated new interest in his music. He signed with Elektra Records and cut three albums. Elektra also reissued his original Fraternity LP, The Wham Of That Memphis Man (now available on Alligator Records). He began playing all the major rock venues, from Fillmore East to Fillmore West/ Lonnie also made a guest appearance on the Doors' Morrison Hotel album. You can hear Lonnie's guitar solo on "Roadhouse Blues," preceded by Jim Morrison's urgent "Do it, Lonnie! Do it!" He even worked in Elektra's A&R department. When the label merged with giant Warner Brothers, however, Lonnie grew disgusted with the new bureaucracy and walked out of his prestigious job. The seventies would turn out to be Mack’s lost decade. Save for two country releases in 1977, nothing was added to his discography between the years of 1972 and 1984.
In 1986, Mack joined Buchanan and Dickey Betts for "The Great American Guitar Assault Tour". He released three more albums over the next four years, including his last, in 1990, a blues-rock LP entitled Lonnie Mack Live! – Attack of the Killer V!. Then, worn from the constant touring required to sell records, he ended his recording career. However, he continued to play the roadhouse and festival circuits at his own pace through 2004.
His last commercial performances were in 2004. He remained retired except for a handful of isolated special appearances over the next few years: Mack died from "natural causes" on April 21, 2016 (age 74) at a hospital near his log-cabin home in rural Tennessee. In the media, his death was overshadowed by that of rock superstar Prince, who died on the same day. Mack was buried in Aurora, Indiana.
(Edited from Wikipedia & rockabilly.com)
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For Lonnie Mack's From Nashville to Memphis go here:
http://uploaded.net/file/zochqfd9
01. Soul Serenade (2:40)
02. Nashville (2:23)
03. No More Pain (2:12)
04. Blues Twist Part 1 (2:04)
05. Blues Twist Part 2 (3:02)
06. Tonky-Go-Go (2:11)
07. She Don't Come Here Anymore (2:12)
08. Honky Tonk '65 (2:44)
09. Buckaroo (2:02)
10. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (2:13)
11. Omaha (2:27)
12. Crying Over You (2:54)
13. Coastin' (2:52)
14. When I'm Alone (1:58)
15. The Circus Song (2:11)
16. Are You Guilty? (2:24)
17. Wildwood Flower (2:09)
18. Don't Make My Baby Blue (2:18)
19. Down In The Dumps (2:23)
20. Any Day Now (2:56)
21. Teacha (2:37)
22. Doggin' (2:31)
23. Instrumental #1 (3:21)
24. I'm So Satisfied (2:26)
25. Goodbye Baby Goodbye (2:16)
26. Memphis (2:31)
Please reup,great guitarist
Hello GSO, Here's the new link
https://mega.nz/file/pr4xyQ5S#nBhAEze5kIg-bc7prh0SgINPnNzP_r7GM9i8-wXzAHg
Will be updating the bio later on.
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