Search - Little Mack Simmons :: The PM/Simmons Collection

Classic Chicago Blues.

Sam Mosley | Toronto, Ontario | 11/10/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Little Mack Simmons was a little known harp player from Chicago who's career got a boost when he began recording for Eletro-Fi records. With new releases on that label, they wisely decided to release the best of Mack's self-produced singles from the 70's and 80's onto CD. This is over an hour of gritty Chicago blues played by masters of the business. The house band that plays on the majority of the song's includes guitarist Lonnie Brooks, pianist Detroit Junior and drummer's Robert Covington and Billy Davenport, all veteran's of the Chicago blues scene. Simmon's, of course, is the star of the recording's and his singing and harp playing shine throughout. There are also three tracks led by singer Arelean Brown(one a duet with Lee "Shot" Williams) and one led by the great Fenton Robinson.

If you love classic Chicago blues straight from where it was born than this CD would be a wise purchase for you. Little Mack passed away a few years ago and he never received much due for his classic recordings so this CD is a perfect way to the remember him."