Ain't That Right - An Unconventional Tribute To Sun Records

Description

If one is to believe the few published biographies, Mack Stevens was born in the mid-1950s in Corsicana, southeast of Dallas, Texas. His musical love goes to original rock, as it was produced at the time, especially in Memphis, by Sam Phillips for his Sun label in his own studio. It took some time before Mack Stevens released his first work. In 1993, his first album was released on the German label Eagle Records. Singles, LPs, CDs and even shellac records followed for labels in France, Japan and the United States, among others, where he was able to thrill the legendary rockabilly producer Ronny Weiser and release four CDs in three years on his Rollin' Rock label. He has released on Scana, Part, On The Hill, Hog Maw and on his own label Freedonia. Mack Stevens has now recorded more than 500 songs, whether rock, hillbilly country or trash blues. He passionately collects original rockabilly records and had his own radio show, 'In The Groove'. Mack is and remains a purist. A flabby sound here and there or a playing mistake do not bother him. But he does not like guitarists thinking that the rockabilly school began with the Stray Cats. Since 1998, Mack has been married to an Argentine woman. Since then, he has been commuting between the United States and South America, where these brutally raw recordings were made for his tribute to the Sun Sound of the 1950s. One might now expect a new soft and insignificant album of covers of Sun hits - but not when Mack is at the helm! He knows the Sun Records catalog well and has chosen some of the wildest and most obscure tracks for his album and his hard, often brutal and extremely emotional reinterpretation of Sun history. It is wild, it has punch, it radiates the charm of the originals with Mack Stevens' typical approach. Wild, authentic - pure dramatic rock with trash blues accents!