Born this day, 1941 – Lonnie Mack, American rock, blues and country singer-guitarist. In the early 1960s, he was a “pioneer” in virtuoso rock guitar soloing whose recordings were pivotal to the emergence of the electric guitar as a lead voice in rock music. For this, it has been said that he launched the era of “modern rock guitar”. He scored the hit single instrumentals, ‘Memphis’ and ‘Wham!’ Mack died of natural causes on April 21, 2016, in a hospital near his log-cabin home, seventy miles east of Nashville, Tennessee.
