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Showing posts with label Lil Mack Simmons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lil Mack Simmons. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

We Need to Help Each Other - Lil Mack Simmons


Lil Mack Simmons (January 25, 1933 — October 24, 2000) was an African American, Chicago blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.By the late 1960s, Simmons had redefined his musical style, incorporating an intriguing mix of gospel, country and western, funk, soul and rock influences into his blues. From the mid to late 1970s, he owned and operated the Zodiac Lounge in Chicago. He also owned a studio and recorded for his own labels: PM Records and Simmons Records. In addition he cut blues tracks for Biscayne and Dud Sound, and in the 1980s he recorded for Sky Hero Productions, in which he was a partner.

By the mid-1990s, Mack was back in the studio, cutting Come Back To Me Baby on the Wolf label in 1994 and High And Lonesome for St. George Records the following year.

But it was his 1997 Electro-Fi release, Little Mack Is Back, that proclaimed the revival of Simmons's career, reaping enthusiastic reviews from around the globe. Similarly his current Electro-Fi CD, Somewhere On Down The Line, is racking up worldwide acclaim as word is spreading that Little Mack Simmons is an artist who embodies the best of Chicago blues.
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