Guitar Tricks Insider September / October Issue | Page 10

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what they were talking about. I can’t say enough
about Lonnie Mack. It sounds better than the gui-
tar playing that’s out now, when we’re talking about
what’s popular on the radio. It had soul. I’m not
saying that nobody has soul on the radio today be-
cause that would be crazy. When that record came
out, the stuff that I liked had to have feeling. It
had to be wild and it had to have tone on the gui-
tar. Nowadays you hardly hear that. ■
“I loved his tone and his wild
guitar, but at the same time he
was blues and he was my hero.”
“Wham” by Lonnie Mack
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