Lonnie Mack - Oreo Cookie Blues - 1986 - Live and Rare! 

Many, many thanks for posting this. I'm the guy sitting next to Lonnie, Scott Newell. This is from a morning show I hosted called "AM Cleveland" that ran from 1983-1989. I had never seen this recording--ever--until a couple of days ago when I discovered it accidentally here on youtube. Lonnie is the best: nice guy, great guitar player, terrific singer. I remember we rehearsed this for only about a minute before going on (the show was live).

I'm a Jazz guitarist, formally doing lots of country. Around 1982, on New Years Eve, I'm the lead guitarist with a country western band gigging in a bar in Port Jervis, NY. Its 2AM, just a few hard hitting folks left. In walks this guy with a couple of great looking gals. They sit down at the table. This dude comes up to the band stand and very politely asks if he could borrow my guitar and play a few songs with the band. I figured this guy was trying to impress the gals and knew nothing about the guitar. But, it was late and only a couple of folks were left in the place. Reluctantly, I handed this dude my guitar, an expensive Fender Strat. I walked off the stage and got a beer. IT WAS LONNIE MACK! Well the rest is history. What a night!!!!!

Another big loss in music. Lonnie was a huge influence on so many guitarists. And what a gentleman.

Oh wow, just read the news that Lonnie Mack has passed away. Of course the main stream media will not mention it with all the talk of the death of Prince. For sure one of the greatest guitar players in the entire history of Rock and Roll and one of my all time favorites. A great talent who influenced millions of guitar players in this country over the last 53-years. I'm pretty sure he watched this video here which I posted back in August of 2010. R.I.P. Lonnie Mack!

Lonnie used to hunt on my Dad's property when I was a kid and he was a big old feller and a really nice guy .. My Dad used to call him 'Elvis' , I guess because he was a music star but I had no idea who he was then . I sure know who he is now . One of the best guitarists I have ever heard . Love his early stuff es[ecially . He is a pioneer of rock guitar

Mr Mack is playing an early to mid sixties Epiphone Texan, looks like probably a 64 or 5. These Guitars were made in the exact same factory that Gibson used to make all of its acoustic Guitars. This is exactly like a Gibson J45, except for the larger headstock and logo. I've always thought the larger headstock gives the Epiphone Acoustic Guitar's more reasonance. These are my favorite acoustic Guitars, looks like Mr Mack agrees. There are pictures of him playing more than a few over the years ! Mr Mack is definitely one of the Greats in my opinion and deserves a lot of respect

Lonnie Mack! Wow..... He is a genuine blues guitar GIANT. May God bless the man, the myth, the legend......

R.I.P. Lonnie. Thanks for posting this. Was in Pittsburg the morning I read about his passing. He is one of my favorite guitar players ever. This is great!

Great video and Scott Newell did a super backing job! Thanks for posting.

Great version. Thank you ! Always impressed by Lonnie's voice, and the guitar playing too. And Scott did a good job too !

Lonnie Mack Was One Of The Greatest

Lonnie Mack,a music legend ..phenomenal..and the side man is terrific

This Song makes me happy.....and True Blue !!

Simply terrific song!

You never heard of him until now because he only had one hit record way back in 1963 called Memphis. A lot of the radio stations that play oldies don't play every record that made it into the top 20 for each year. Even though Memphis peaked on BillBoard at number-5, they just play the some old 10 biggest songs from each year that everybody knows. I guess Lonnie was just one of those GREAT ARTIST who just happened to slip though the cracks and never became a superstar.

just farking great, good as roy buchanan,, but what a growling voice on lonnie!

great blues man

oh yes, thank you for the post.

RIP Lonnie

why was a guy like lonnie mack playing the holiday inn? there is no one better .

Yes, the host is very good. Interesting audience demographic, too!

So many questions... 1. When were newscasters ever this awesome? 2. Why have I not heard of Lonnie Mack until just now? 3. Where the hell did all those old white ladies come from? 4. Did you notice the host drop his voice after hearing Lonnie in the beginning?

@lachute50 That's what I was thinking when I first obtained this video. I've always considered Lonnie Mack as one of the greatest guitar players in the History of Rock N Roll and one of the fastest as well. We could also ask why a guy like this only had one hit record (Memphis in 1963) as well. Then again Chet Atkins never had a lot of hits himself. I guess if you don't have a strong record company backing you all the way then you end up playing at the local Holiday Inn.

3:44 Lonnie can do that even without whammy bar

Next best thing to nookie.

They took our jobs! Dereketurr!

Another great guitar player in the Link Wray vein! Oreo cookie blues, seriously?

Not to put this down it's great but he did a version with Stevie Ray Vaughan playing 12 string slide guitar.....OMG

This is one Ted Nugent's influences. I watched a you tube video with Ted talking about it.

The interviewer didn't do a bad job , on his solo ......no Stevie Ray but not bad

Why didn't he say nookie? Oh yeah, 800 white old ladies. Good call.

i guess it's for the best, if the big record companies had gotten him ,they would have ruined another artist.

This is exactly why George Carlin said, "white boys should never sing da blues! Cuz they be singin dem blues bout anythang!" lol

...Oreo Cookie Blues? -_-

All you see is white haired ladies because the men were either at work making a living, in the old age home or dead.

white guys.