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| | Memphis Wham! | | | Music Artist : | | Lonnie Mack | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Ace Records UK | | Release Date : | | 2004-12-27 | | Store Price : | | $19.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $19.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Memphis
2. Where There's a Will There's a Way
3. Wham!
4. I'll Keep You Happy
5. Bounce
6. Baby What's Wrong
7. Down and Out
8. Satisfied
9. Susie-Q
10. Why
11. Down in the Dumps
12. Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
13. Gee Baby
14. Chicken Pickin'
15. Oh, I Apologize
16. Say Something Nice to Me
17. From Me to You
18. Turn on Your Love Light
19. Freeze
20. Farther on up the Road
21. Cry Cry Cry
22. Save Your Money
23. Tension, Pt. 1
24. Tension, Pt. 2
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Definitely not THIS CD!
Submitted on: 2009-01-18 |
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"Memphis Wham!" comes in an awful sounding pseudo-stereoization with all the important information (lead guitar, voice) coming out of the right channel only. Completely annoying!
As all the previously unreleased bonus tracks on this CD are of minor quality and should have stayed in the vaults the original "The Wham Of That Memphis Man!" is the CD to go for.
Terrific music in glorious mono! Fat bass and all! |
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 I love this cd!
Submitted on: 2008-08-28 |
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| I just received this cd, and it hasn't left my cd player since its arrival. I really recommend it for everyone. |
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The Great Guitar and Soulful Voice of an Influential Original
Submitted on: 2008-03-01 |
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Although first inspired by Elvis Presley, Lonnie Mack's originality emerged almost as soon as he bought his first Gibson Flying V guitar at the precocious age of 17, and blues-influenced rock and roll has never been the same, if, in fact, it ever existed prior to this debut. The driving beat of his amazingly deft guitar is still awe-inspiring 45 years after its initial release, and this CD sounds almost as fresh in 2008 as it was no doubt revolutionary back in 1963.
I admit that I myself am sometimes slow on the intake. I first heard the name Lonnie Mack because I'd often heard Tracy Nelson, my favorite vocalist and the lead singer of the late-60's blues-rock band Mother Earth, remark that she'd first heard the song Satisfied on Lonnie Mack's debut album. Mother Earth not only covered the song on their third Mercury release in 1970, they had even titled the album Satisfied, in apparent deference to Lonnie Mack's awesome talent. I was already familiar with the 1950 recording of Satisfied by Country-Gospel legend Martha Carson, and I suspect that the lead guitar of a very young Chet Atkins on that record is what compelled Lonnie Mack to record his own version of Satisfied for his debut album. While recently doing research for a review I was writing on Mother Earth's Satisfied album, it suddenly struck me that if my favorite singer and her band had named one of their earliest and most popular efforts after a song covered by Lonnie Mack, the least I should do is check him out. Although I was intrigued by Tracy Nelson's ringing endorsement, the preponderance of five-star reviews for this CD, many written by guitar players, was the deal-clincher that made me decide to acquire this release.
As soon as I'd heard the first few tracks, I knew Lonnie Mack was an original. Although lauded for his brilliant guitar work (and I admit he is one heck of an awesome guitarist) the album also contains a dozen thrilling vocals in his inimitable, soulful voice. Indeed, Tracy Nelson herself, whose eclectic taste I have always revered, once confided in me that she was even more enamored of Lonnie Mack's smooth vocals that she was of his dynamic guitar. Although many of Ms. Nelson's albums have included covers of songs previously recorded by artists she admires, she usually places her own stamp on such endeavors, and her vocals seldom invoke memories of the original. Upon hearing Lonnie Mack's version of Satisfied, I was floored to realize that Mother Earth had not only copied Mr. Mack's arrangement, Tracy Nelson had paid Mr. Mack the exquisite compliment of basing her own throbbing vocal directly on his, something I had never seen her do with any other cover she'd undertaken. It was then that the magnitude of Mr. Mack's influence and importance really began to sink in.
If this connection to my favorite singer was the catalyst for my acquisition of Memphis Wham!, it was hardly the end-all be-all that I thought it might turn out to be. Lonnie Mack's instrumental renditions of Suzie Q, The Bounce, Down and Out (in one word - WOW!), Memphis and Wham were all revelations almost 50 years after the fact, but his heartfelt vocals on I'll Keep You Happy, Where There's a Will There's a Way, Baby What's Wrong, and Down in the Dumps (not to mention the aforementioned Satisfied) instantly propelled this album to a top favorite spot in my fairly large and somewhat diverse music collection. His aching cover of Why is (so far) my favorite vocal track, in an album where it's perplexingly difficult to choose if the vocals outshine the instrumentals, or vice versa. And I could be wrong, but stylistically, if Baby What's Wrong was not also a strong influence on the early output of Mother Earth, I will shake salt on my favorite fedora and chow down. It isn't every day that you discover that you've overlooked a major inspiration of one of your favorite bands, but I intend to make up for lost time by adding Memphis Wham to my CD rotation until I can conjure up every lick and lyric in my mind's ear at will, and I don't expect that will take long at all. Lonnie Mack is a true original, as well as an important icon in the world of blues-rock guitar. I was highly impressed on my first listen, and I thoroughly expect Memphis Wham! to become an oft-listened-to staple and a cornerstone of my music collection. Many of the bonus tracks are as awesome as the classic cuts that make up the primary focus of this CD, and on the whole, this compilation makes for an enormously satisfying listen. Highly recommended.
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 First half is great!
Submitted on: 2005-08-12 |
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| The first half of the CD is great. The second half is awful. As a youngster I heard LM for the first time. I thought he was outstanding. I still have the orginal LP of "Wham!" although is a bit scratchy. The first half of this CD is "Wham!" and its great to hear those tunes without the scratches. The second half of the CD is terrible. The tunes sound like a beginning garage band. So, the first half I rate 5 stars, the second half I rate 1 star. Also, "Strikes Like Lightening" by LM is a disappointing CD. I'd rate it 2 stars. |
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THE BIBLE FOR CHICAGO GUITARISTS
Submitted on: 2004-12-20 |
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This is the album that opened the door to blues guitar for me when I was a 12 year old kid from the south side of Chicago. From the energy packed intro to Wham to the rocking version of Memphis, Lonnie Mack and his Flying V guitar brought a whole new sound to the mid 60's guitar table, just as Clapton would later do with Bluesbreakers.
One of the most under rated, unknown guitarists, Mack played a unique style using a Gibson Flying V and a capo. His organ vibrato amp added to the mysterious but driving blues sound coming off of this album.
I listened to it day and night, up and down inside and out. It was the bible as far as I was concerned and it helped lead the way to where I am today as a player.
By all means, get this historic album and discover a guitarist who we all idolized on the south side of Chicago in the early 60's. Lonnie Mack..wow, what a monster!!!
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