W" National Charts Years Before Most by 1958 He Was Touring and Playing Encouraged the Area

Daily Nebraskan ttr Mack tried to several Lonnie Mack has been playing . forefathers of rock V roll, he tried get projects in last 10 with no rock Y roll since rock Y roll began. to blend these two vastly different going the years, In Stevie 1 His first big hit, "Memphis," hit the genres. Mack quit school early, and success. 1983, Ray Vaughn him to relocate in w" national charts years before most by 1958 he was touring and playing encouraged the area. UNL students were born. He played clubs regularly. He started doing Austin, Texas Vaughn was a "Road-hous- now-gon- e Fra- friend and a Mack disci- bass guitar on the Doors' e session work for the longtime - ,:" Wham of That i f Blues," and his song "Why?" ternity and King labels in Cincin- ple. "The Memphis At the end of another artist's Man" was the first album Vaughn .! is in the Guinness Book of World nati. , Records for the loudest soul scream session, Mack cut an instrumental bought as a child, according to a on version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis." Guitar Player magazine interview. ' vinyl. r His influence on modern guitar Fraternity issued the single and it Mack and Vaughn got together - f rivals Chuck Berry's. But hit No. 5 on the U.S. charts. and last "Strike - y playing produced year's where Berry is content to play his Mack said "Memphis" labeled Like Lightning," a scorching LP with old hits and "My Ding-a-ling- " at him as an instrumentalist, but with a title track that could be a blues-gosp- ' state fairs, Mack is still out there Mack's background, that modern-da- y rock 'n' roll classic. :V' label couldn't have been more inac- creating lively and important music. That LP was just the start of a Eric curate. His nine LPs are almost all Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, new phase of Mack's career. In two and Stevie all vocals. Mack's voice is intense and 1 Clapton Ray Vaughn weeks, his new album "Second Sight" have Mack as a soulful, and after listening to his acknowledge major will be released on Alligator Records. L v influence. latest LP, "Strike Like Lightning," I ' I V "Second Sight" will feature Jim All incredible and believe his voice is only this history, getting Keltner, drummer for Joe Cocker, when I ask college-ag- e friends better. l" yet my who also appeared on many Beatles whether down to the The second of Mack's career they're going stage solo LPs. The Memphis Horns, who - ) Zoo weekend to see Lonnie in the late '60s the Bar this began during have appeared on over 300 records, psychedelic era's blues revival. Mack Mack, they say: including Peter Gabriel's "Sledge- "Lonnie Who?" returned to record three albums on hammer," also play on "Second Lonnie Mack is not a "house- the Electra label five years after his No, Sight." hold name" with my generation. first LP, "The Wham of That Mem- Even more is This article, I hope, will change phis Man." exciting, though, TV Mack for that. Mack's last Zoo Bar show had a Mack also got a prestigious, cushy the pilot filmed PBS called "The American disappointing turnout and his lack job at Electra. When Electra was Caravan," a show that Mack will be sold of notoriety with the younger crowd sold to Warner Brothers, he got dis- hopes to a lot of stations. Mack will be - may have had something to do with gusted with the new bureaucracy the ..vS.': and will that. and left Los Angeles. host feature obscure and artists. But Mack said in a phone inter- After quitting the Los Angeles upcoming Is to be of view from Springfield, Mo., that his scene, he disappeared from national "It's going kind a cross Lonnie M between 'Austin Limits' and current tour is drawing people ofall attention for many years. City he said. ages. "I quit the business, but I never MTV," The Wham "The crowd is ranging all the way quit music," he said. But for now, don't miss Lonnie from the real young to the real old. Mack returned to his hometown Mack this weekend at the Zoo Bar. I The older crowd wants to hear me and played local gigs. In the mid-70- s, missed his last performance, but Returns! play the old songs, but the younger Columbia released two country everyone who saw it tells me Mack ones are interested in the newer LPs, "Home At Last," and "Lonnie put on one of the best shows ever at stuff." Mack and Pismo." the Zoo. He will play Friday and Lonnie Mack's career started in "The first country LP was kind of Saturday, and advance tickets are by Stew his young teens. He played guitar a mistake," Mack said. available for $6. Cover will be $7 at and listened to black and country-weste- n "I'd sent a demo tape to .Colum- the door. Opening band is Lincoln's radio stations in his home- bia, and they released it. I never Tablerockers, so that's a lot of good Magnuson town of Harrison, Ind. Like all of the performed or toured." music for the money. - - MP ifiK IN j vmy :. .... 7 KAMXMTO&IIKKlMHf EXFMSS KPTCKKM 38, Itt7 ON ANY 11 Silver m " Lights J' V CIGARETTE PAPERS O 1 1 VTlT RETAILER: You are authorized to act as our agent for redemption ot this coupon. We will reimburse you 50 plus 8( handling providing that you and the consumer have complied with the terms of our offer. Void where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law Good only in U.S.A. Cash value 120. The consumer must pay any sales tax. 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