I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Have Mercy!, from Sean "Mack" McDonald and it's terrific! Opening with Rudy Moore's, My Soul, Sean McDonald really turns out. With smooth vocal lead backed by The Morgan Brothers and Marcel Smith on backing vocals you immediately feel like you're in a club in the 50's. With D'Quantae Johnson on bass, Jim Pugh on piano, June Core on drums and featuring T-Bone Walker like lead guitar by McDonald, this track is rocking. Original McDonald track, Killing Me, is a terrific slow blues with excellent Ronnie Earl/Walker style blues runs that will curl your hair. His vocals are amazing and with Pugh on organ, Eric Spaulding on tenor and Jack Sanford on bari. Wow!! Shuffleboard Swing is another hair raiser bringing to mind the great Clarence Gatemouth Brown. Hot jump track with excellent guitar lead and hot hot sax by Spaulding and sailing organ by Pugh. This guy is amazing! Rev Oris Mays spiritual, Don't Let The Devil Ride, is rich with excellent vocals by McDonald, The Morgan Brothers and Marcel Smith really showing a dimensionality that is rarely seen in blues artists with tasty guitar work that plays under the music. Excellent. Wrapping the release is Henry Glover's Let's Call It A Day, with it's deep R&B feel. McDonald belts out the lead vocal with deep soulful backing vocals by The Morgan Brothers and Lisa Leuschner Andersen and Pugh on piano. Soulful guitar lead by McDonald really digs in giving the track really strong traction. Strong closer for possibly the best thing I've heard this year.
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