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Backbone & Gristle is the 15 track follow up to Mac Arnold & Plate Full O' Blues' 2005 debut Nothing to Prove. It offers 13 studio tracks written and arranged by the band plus two songs performed live, one with a children's choir. The title is a synonym for fortitude and character which Mac's sharecropper father used to motivate the kids. Apparently it worked well as Mac's first band included a young James Brown. When Mac brought the funk to Chicago, Muddy Waters hired him on the spot. He recorded with Otis Spann and John Lee Hooker. Later he and friend Don Cornelius launched Soul Train and Mac even played bass on the Sanford And Son theme song. Snowballing the recognition and acclaim from his debut, and no longer a sideman, Mac is enjoying his time out front. And it shows.