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1-CD Album with 32-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 71 mns. Country artist Mack... more

Mack Self: Easy To Love, The Sun Years, Plus

1-CD Album with 32-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 71 mns.

Country artist Mack Self came from Arkansas to record one single for Sun and another for Phillips International, but that doesn't begin to tell the story. It's all here in 30 songs, featuring his complete recordings and a bonus interview in which Mack Self tells his own story in his own words! Rare photos round out the set!

Sam Phillips had a chance to work with two natives of Helena, Arkansas: Conway Twitty (a/k/a Harold Jenkins) and Mack Self. Sam Phillips chose Mack Self. Although his choice was never rewarded financially with a hit record, this collection of Mack Self's early work shows that Sam Phillips' judgement was as sound as ever. Half of the titles Mack Self recorded at Sun were released on two 45s during the 1950s. The remaining material had to wait almost 30 years for Sun archaeologists to discover. It was worth the wait.

Tracks like Going Crazy and Lovin' Memories revealed that Mack Self could turn his hand to rockabilly with the best of them. But back then, Sam Phillips was more interested in Mack Self's pure country soul. It was a brave decision that went against Sun's growing reputation for unleashing the music of southern wild men. At the least, Mack Self's two releases on Sun and Phillips International reveal how deeply
Sam Phillips was impressed by the charms of Mack Self's pure country style.

Easy To Love remains one of the most beautiful country songs of its era, and here we present it in three versions, showing that it didn't always sound like the version on Sun 273. Everyday and Mad At You (also presented in previously unreleased alternate versions) retain their power as well. These are timeless recordings, beautifully written and cleanly performed. Mack Self worked with the best of Sun sidemen like Stan Kesler, Bill Cantrell, Billy Riley, Johnny Bernero, Roland Janes, Jimmy Van Eaton, W. S. Holland and Martin Willis. Their contributions are all on record here.

This collection brings together every title recorded by Mack Self at 706 Union Avenue between 1955 – 1959. Along with previously unissued alternate takes and false starts, we now have the fullest picture yet of Mack Self's days at Sun. Previously unpublished photos and new interview material by Sun historian Hank Davis offer further depth to our coverage. In addition, we include eight post-Sun tracks recorded by Mack Self in Memphis between 1960 – 1972. The collection concludes with a few reminiscences about these historic times spoken in Mack Self's own words.

Finally there is a priceless moment here available nowhere else: an impromptu acoustic performance of Mack Self's musical tribute to his days at the Sun label during its Golden Era.

Article properties: Mack Self: Easy To Love, The Sun Years, Plus

  • Interpret: Mack Self

  • Album titlle: Easy To Love, The Sun Years, Plus

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127165190

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Self, Mack - Easy To Love, The Sun Years, Plus CD 1
01 Goin' Crazy Mack Self
02 Everyday Mack Self
03 Vibrate Mack Self
04 Easy To Love Mack Self
05 Lovin' Memories (false start) Mack Self
06 Lovin' Memories Mack Self
07 Mad At You Mack Self
08 Willie Brown Mack Self
09 Little One (false start) Mack Self
10 Little One Mack Self
11 Goin' Crazy Mack Self
12 Everyday Mack Self
13 Vibrate Mack Self
14 Easy To Love Mack Self
15 Lovin' Memories (false start) Mack Self
16 Lovin' Memories Mack Self
17 Mad At You Mack Self
18 Willie Brown Mack Self
19 Goin' Crazy Mack Self
20 Everyday Mack Self
21 Easy To Love Mack Self
22 Got You On My Mind Mack Self
23 Lovin' Memories Mack Self
24 Jody McClain Mack Self
25 Folsom Prison Blues Mack Self
26 Yesterday's Gone Mack Self
27 That Mexican Limbo Mack Self
28 Breaking New Ground Mack Self
29 You Put Those Tears In My Eyes Mack Self
30 Bridges Mack Self
31 Interview Mack Self
Mack Self was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1998. As Mack, himself, would tell... more
"Mack Self"

Mack Self was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1998. As Mack, himself, would tell you, that probably has as much to do with his association with the legendary Sun label as it does any strong leaning on his part toward pure rockabilly. Strictly speaking, Mack never was a rocker. At least not in the sense that Sun label-mates Billy Riley and Sonny Burgess were. Riley and Burgess, by the way, shared more than a label affiliation with Mack; all three men hail from Arkansas.

The similarities, however, pretty much stop at the state line. Unlike Riley and Burgess, Mack Self was and is pure country. Sun label owner Sam Phillips, to his enormous credit, allowed Mack to be just what he was. Three of the four tracks issued by Mack on the original Sun and Phillips International labels were unabashed country songs during a period when Sun was dominated by southern wildmen. The releases adjacent to Mack's Easy To Love  (Sun 273) include Ray Harris's Greenback Dollar (Sun 272)and Carl Perkins' That's Right (Sun 274). Billy Riley's Red Hot (Sun 277) came along two months later, and Jerry Lee's Great Balls Of Fire (Sun 281) barely a month after that. The same was true of Mack's Mad At You, issued on Phillips International 3548. Adjoining releases on the label included Charlie Rich's Rebound, Carl Mann's Rockin' Love and Sonny Burgess' Sadie's Back In Town. All in all, Mack's "pure as country water" offerings were surrounded by some pretty hard-edged rockin' company 

Even Mack's uptempo songs like Mad At You contained down home lyrics like "My cow's gone dry/The hens won't lay." His Going Crazy – a track that never saw light in the 1950s - offers lines like "You got me barkin' like a dog/ rootin' like a hog/ skinning saplings/ eatin' paw paws. " It doesn't get much more country than that.

For all his back-country charm, Mack Self remains beloved by rockabilly fans and collectors. This is pretty easy to understand. Years of Sun archaeology has unearthed undeniable rockabilly gems by Mack like Vibrate and Lovin' Memories. Although they were never released during the 1950s, these tracks provide strong credentials for Mack's Hall of Fame status. At a personal level, Mack Self is a man who, as Johnny Cash sang, "was there when it happened." Self's sessions included players like Roland Janes, Stan Kesler, Jimmy Van Eaton, Johnny Bernero, W. S. Holland, Billy Riley and Martin Willis. The man in the control room hitting the record button was either Jack Clement or Sam Phillips. The bottom line is that Mack's name appears on nearly a dozen tape boxes full of songs recorded at what he calls "that little ole rinky dink studio" in Memphis. He's the real deal. In fact, it's good to remind ourselves that Sam Phillips auditioned both Mack Self and Harold Jenkins (a/k/a Conway Twitty) – an Arkansas running buddy of Mack's – at just about the same time. Phillips passed on Twitty and decided to work with Mack.

At the least, Mack Self is a survivor. Settling into a comfortable chair, Mack begins to summarize his life. "I'm Mack Self. I was born in 1930. I'll be 77 years old the 22nd day of May.  My daddy was a farmer and he played the fiddle. My mother played the guitar and they got me started. After that I taught myself. The first performing I did was at a street dance in Barton, Arkansas. I was about 15 years old and I sang two Hank Williams songs. I went up there with a guy named Henry Henderson. He told me about the dance and we decided to go. We stopped at a little 'grab all' grocery store out in the country and Henry got us something to drink. I took a shot of it and said, 'That's good. What is it?' He said, 'That's Bobcat wine.' I never drank nothing before that and I really still don't drink. But when I got up there I was feelin' pretty good. It woke me up a little bit. Made my nerves get right, you know?

"They had a good band, at that dance. John Hughey (Conway Twitty's steel guitarist) might have been playing with them. I'm not sure but I know they had a good steel man. I finished my songs and folks went crazy. I thought, 'Man! I'm gonna try this a while!'

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Tracklist
Self, Mack - Easy To Love, The Sun Years, Plus CD 1
01 Goin' Crazy
02 Everyday
03 Vibrate
04 Easy To Love
05 Lovin' Memories (false start)
06 Lovin' Memories
07 Mad At You
08 Willie Brown
09 Little One (false start)
10 Little One
11 Goin' Crazy
12 Everyday
13 Vibrate
14 Easy To Love
15 Lovin' Memories (false start)
16 Lovin' Memories
17 Mad At You
18 Willie Brown
19 Goin' Crazy
20 Everyday
21 Easy To Love
22 Got You On My Mind
23 Lovin' Memories
24 Jody McClain
25 Folsom Prison Blues
26 Yesterday's Gone
27 That Mexican Limbo
28 Breaking New Ground
29 You Put Those Tears In My Eyes
30 Bridges
31 Interview