Mack, who died on April 21 at age 74, grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio as well as the day’s other musical fare, ranging from Les Paul to Hank Williams to Jimmy Reed to Ray Charles to T-Bone Walker to Chuck Berry to the Five Blind Boys to Robert Ward. His first two singles, 1963’s “Memphis” and “Wham!,” laid the groundwork for blues-rock and influenced generations of players, including Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, and, most notably, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who co-produced Mack’s 1985 comeback album, Strike Like Lightning. There’s county, blues, rock ’n’ roll, all the way down to some bluegrass and a little Cajun with some uptown jazzy stuff mixed in.” No matter the genre, it was clear that Mack, who was born Lonnie McIntosh in West Harrison, Indiana, on July 18, 1941, was a guitarist’s guitarist. Lonnie Mack described his music as “a little bit of everything.
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