American Musician. Born Lonnie McIntosh, he was a rock, blues, and country singer-guitarist whose playing influenced many of rock's modern guitar heroes, including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. 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 and began playing sessions for the King and Fraternity labels in Cincinnati, recording with blues and R&B greats like Hank Ballard, Freddie King, and James Brown. In 1963, he cut an instrumental version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis", which hit the national Top 5, and eventually signed with Elektra Records where he cut three albums and made a guest appearance on the Doors' 'Morrison Hotel' album, where you can hear Jim Morrison's urging "Do it, Lonnie! Do It!". He even worked in Elektra's A&R department for a period. From 1963 through 1990, he released over a dozen studio albums, including 'The Wham of that Memphis Man!,' 'Whatever's Right,' 'The Hills of Indiana,' 'Home At Last,' 'Strike Like Lightning,' 'Roadhouses and Dance Halls,' and 'Attack of the Killer V.' He was inducted into the International Guitar Hall of Fame in 2001 and into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2005.
American Musician. Born Lonnie McIntosh, he was a rock, blues, and country singer-guitarist whose playing influenced many of rock's modern guitar heroes, including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. 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 and began playing sessions for the King and Fraternity labels in Cincinnati, recording with blues and R&B greats like Hank Ballard, Freddie King, and James Brown. In 1963, he cut an instrumental version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis", which hit the national Top 5, and eventually signed with Elektra Records where he cut three albums and made a guest appearance on the Doors' 'Morrison Hotel' album, where you can hear Jim Morrison's urging "Do it, Lonnie! Do It!". He even worked in Elektra's A&R department for a period. From 1963 through 1990, he released over a dozen studio albums, including 'The Wham of that Memphis Man!,' 'Whatever's Right,' 'The Hills of Indiana,' 'Home At Last,' 'Strike Like Lightning,' 'Roadhouses and Dance Halls,' and 'Attack of the Killer V.' He was inducted into the International Guitar Hall of Fame in 2001 and into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2005.
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