Artist description Four to seven pieces covering a wide variety of musical genres under "The Sounds of Our Lives" banner and genre crushing originals under "The Sounds of My Life" banner.

Music Style rock, blues, R & B, pop, rock-a-billy

Musical Influences Bach to the Beatles and everything else!

Similar Artists Otis Redding,Elvis,Allman Bros.,Chuck Berry,Chicago,James Brown,Roy Buchanan,Ray Charles,B B King,Jerry Lee Lewis,John Mayall,Wilson Pickett,Santana,Bob Seger,Del Shanon,Steely Dan,Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Artist History Jimmy Mack began playing in his pre-teens on a cardboard guitar that, by the time it had been handed down to him from his older sister Shirley, it had only one string left. Yet Jimmy still made music with that one stringed guitar. His older brother had played guitar (rather poorly) in The Highlanders (a high school band). When the older brother left for the military he told Jimmy: "don't you touch my guitar". "Whenever your big brother tells you not to do something, you go right ahead and do it", said Jimmy Mack in a recent Lawrence Massachusetts Eagle-Tribune newspaper interview. Jimmy learned to play the guitar by listening to the radio. His accute hearing ability allowed him to learn very quickly and he soon formed the first of a countless number of bands. The Rhythm Kings consisted of four guitars, bass, drums and sax. The Rhythm Kings played at record hops and school dances in the late fifties and early sixties. Jimmy's next band, The Raw Meat, performed as the house band at New York's famed Cheetah night club. A band that featured a full horn section and anticipated the jazz-rock fusion sound later popularized by Blood Sweat & Tears and by Chicago. The Fugitives, a band that took its name from a popular TV series that later was made into a feature length movie starring Harrison Ford, covered most of the hits of the 50's and 60's. Next up was Dr Grabow a band that covered all the popular R & B and soul hits on the charts in the early 70's. City Lights, a band Jimmy put together in the mid seventies, opened for Natalie Cole at her SRO Boston Symphony Hall Concert February 8, 1976. Jimmy's musical journey has placed him at one time or another into the presence of every conceivable popular musical idiom. Along the way Jimmy had the great pleasure of sharing the stage with many of the top performers of the past thirty-five plus years. Included among these was legendary cult favorite Roy Buchanan who sadly hung himself in a Farifax VA jail cell. In a Toronto TV interview Roy said: "To be succesful you have to surround yourself with professionals and that is what I have done." He must have included Jimmy among those "professionals" because Roy hand-picked Jimmy to tour with him several times. "Making a living as a working musician, by necessity, has kept me open and receptive to a wide variety of different musical genres", Jimmy commented in a recent telephone conversation. Perhaps it is for this reason Jimmy's original music is so eclectic it defies categorization.

Group Members Jimmy Mack on guitar and lead vocals joined by a revolving cadre of top notch masters of their instruments including drums, bass guitar, keyboards, sax, trumpet and trombone.

Instruments guitar, bass, drums, keybaords, horns.

Albums The Sounds of My Life - Vol One

Press Reviews "His CD, 'The Sounds of My Life-Vol One' is based loosely upon his life. Through 12 songs they tell the story of a character named James Russell. As a teen in the late 1950's Russell experiences love, loss and excitement at the local burger joint in songs like the energetic 'Whataboutawow!', and the soulful 'Deep Down Inside I Cry." - The Haverhill Gazette, Haverhill, MA.

Location Haverhill, MA - USA

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