Junior Mack

Junior Mack - self-taught musician, Junior Mack is a gifted vocalist and guitarist. He has been playing since the age of nine and is equally at ease playing acoustic and electric styles. Junior started on the guitar playing gospel - his road map being the early music of the Five Blind Boys Of Alabama with George Scott, Linwood Hargrove with the Swan Silvertones, Pops Staples of the Staple Singers, and the great Howard Carroll of the Dixie Hummingbirds. His other influences are the country blues of Lightnin' Hopkins and the big city blues of Freddie King and B.B. King. Junior Mack has worked and collaborated with many major American recording artists including Jaimoe's Jasssz Band, The Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks, Robert Randolph, Dickey Betts, Chaka Khan, Magic Slim, Joe Louis Walker, Honeyboy Edwards, Phillip Walker, Lucky Peterson, Eddie Kirkland, Jeff Healy, and others.

A New Jersey native and longtime staple of the New York blues world, Mack reveals wide-ranging talent on the Allman Brothers' "Renaissance Man", with several memorable originals that span the blues, rock, and jazz worlds. Mack also helps the band make the blues classic “Leaving Trunk” their own, turns in a moving version of the soul classic “Rainy Night in Georgia” and re-imagines the Allmans’ “Melissa” as a bossa nova.

Mack has worked or shared the stage with a list of contemporary blues heavyweights, and is currently a member of the "Harlem Blues Project".

Junior Mack was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on September 25, 2011 as a “Great Blues Artist from New York”.

He has also recorded an excellent solo album, titled "Live Adventures".

(Junior Mack at the Pennsylvania Blues Festival 2014)