Product Description Memphis-based Daddy Mack Blues Band takes '60s & '70s arena-rock staples on a Slow Ride back to the blues. Featuring guest Billy Gibson, tracks include Foghat's 'Slow Ride', Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love', John Cale's 'After Midnight', Eric Clapton's 'Lay Down Sally', as well as 'Can't Get Enough' (Foreigner), 'Honky Tonk Women' (Stones), 'Black Magic Woman' (Santana), the Beatles' 'Get Back' and more. Review Already spinning Daddy Mack...What a blues rockin CD! --Chris Maley, KMBH FM - February 8, 2006Slow Ride is just plain Slammin' --Ron Wallace - Live365 About the Artist Many blues critics and fans seem to marvel at the often controversial side of a bluesman’s life. The passion of his music seems less relevant than the number of times he’s been imprisoned, been drunk or the number of children he’s sired. Daddy Mack Orr has never killed a man, spent a night in jail, or fathered children beyond double digits. In fact, Daddy Mack has been married to the same woman since 1965, has four children, and works as a mechanic at his own garage in North Memphis. He has the occasional beer, but I’ve never seen him drunk. This may seem less than glamorous to some, but the truth is Daddy Mack is an amiable, hard-working man who came up the hard way. Born in Como, Mississippi sixty years ago, Mack Orr was one of nine children. He chopped and picked cotton until he moved to Memphis as a young adult, and found work in construction, where he later became a heavy equipment operator. Along the way, he picked-up skills as a mechanic and opened his own garage in North Memphis. He never went to college; in fact, he only attended school through the sixth grade. Although lacking formal education, Mack’s intelligence and determination have served him well in life. He learned blues guitar in his forties and has become a highly respected blues musician. In the past few years he’s been learning Spanish. He keeps a Spanish language instruction book in his truck where the station stays tuned to Spanish radio. Mack is an open, curious man; which explains his motivation for learning another language. It also explains the reasoning behind the making of Slow Ride. After all, Mack wasn’t familiar with the majority of these songs before I proposed the idea of this CD to him. A year earlier, he had recorded “Get Back” for Fried Glass Onions—Memphis Meets The Beatles. His performance was outstanding and was the catalyst for this recording. After discussions with Billy Gibson and Malcolm Cullen, I gave Mack a couple of CDs with about twenty songs to consider. Because of scheduling issues, a lot of the material was recorded during the day so that Mack could come to the studio after work and add his vocal and lead guitar. Sessions with Mack were very productive. He was prepared and open to a concept that was a little outside the box. Even though it made perfect sense for a Memphis bluesman to cover classic rock derived from blues in the first place, we knew that no matter what we did during the recording, not everyone would be receptive to the idea of stripping down their favorite “rocker.” In retrospect, I think Mack was doing more than “getting back” to the blues with his ferocious guitar. It feels more like “Take that!” to my ears. Then again, a guy like Mack Orr doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody. See more