He was raised on a series of nearby sharecropping farms. One of five children, he was born to parents Robert and Sarah Sizemore McIntosh on July 18, 1941, in West Harrison, Indiana, near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Shortly before Mack's birth, his family moved from Appalachian eastern Kentucky to Dearborn County, Indiana, on the banks of the Ohio River. 6 Mack's 1958 Gibson Flying V Guitar, "Number 7"Įarly life and musical influences.5 Mack's role in the evolution of rock lead guitar.He continued to perform, mostly in small venues, until 2004. In 1990, he released another well-received blues-rock album, Lonnie Mack Live! Attack of the Killer V, then retired from recording. In 1985, Mack resurfaced with a successful blues-rock LP, Strike Like Lightning, a promotional tour featuring celebrity guitarist sit-ins, and a concert at Carnegie Hall with guitarists Roy Buchanan and Albert Collins. For the next fourteen years he was a low-profile multi-genre recording artist, roadhouse performer, sideman, and music-venue proprietor. He was soon performing in major venues, but his multi-genre Elektra albums downplayed his lead guitar and blues-rock appeal and record sales were modest. He marked time until 1968, when Rolling Stone magazine rediscovered him and Elektra Records signed him to a three-album contract. Shortly after the album's release, however, the massively popular " British Invasion" hit American shores, and Mack's career "withered on the vine". These tracks raised the bar for rock guitar proficiency, helped launch the electric guitar to the top of soloing instruments in rock, and became prototypes for the lead guitar styles of blues-rock and Southern rock. In the album's instrumental tracks, Mack added "edgy, aggressive, loud, and fast" melodies and runs to the chords-and-riffs standard of early rock guitar. It earned him lasting renown as both a blue-eyed soul singer and a lead guitar innovator. Mack emerged in 1963 with his breakthrough LP, The Wham of that Memphis Man. He was an influential trailblazer of blues-rock music and rock guitar soloing. Lonnie McIntosh (J– April 21, 2016), known as Lonnie Mack, was an American singer-guitarist.
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