So So Cat says…

Thanks to y'all
who attended the

3rd Annual
CornBread & Collard Greens Blues Festival

for making it a great event and we'll be back next year!

Collard festival poster

The band has just returned from Europe and will be playing around the Carolinas this summer. In August they will return to Europe for a series of festival shows.
See tour dates

Just added:
Story of the Gas Can Guitars

Mac with collard harvest
photo ©Stephen Stinson

“Thank you for
supporting the Blues”

Mac Arnold’s first band included James Brown on piano. Mac moved to Chicago and Muddy Waters hired him on the spot. He toured and recorded with the Muddy Waters Band and recorded LPs with Otis Spann and John Lee Hooker. Mac moved to Los Angeles and produced Soul Train with his friend Don Cornelius. He even played bass on the Sanford & Son television show when he wasn't playing bass for Otis Redding and B.B. King. He retired from show business to be an organic farmer. Mac is back with his own band and second CD, building a new foundation in blues, soul and funk.

“This is old-school at its finest”
— Blues Review

“Welcome back a deep Chicago Blues Man from the old school”
— Bob Margolin

“one of the most original voices in blues and has a uniquely distinctive resonance.”
— Jazz Now

“The voice is appropriately seasoned and credible… his group able to match his bursts with formidable answering riffs and licks”
— Nashville City Paper

“Mac Arnold is on his way to a new career as national blues treasure”
— Gritz Magazine

“A plate full of blues? Hell this is the whole dang meal”
— Creative Loafing

“one remaining virtual blues goldmine is Mac Arnold”
— Greg Prato, All Music Guide

Click here for the whole story…

Backbone & Gristle cover art

Backbone & Gristle

The followup to 2005’s “Nothing to Prove” offers up fifteen tracks of down home blues from a true Southern legend. From the talking blues of “U Dog Gone Right” to the jumping title track “Backbone & Gristle,” this one is hotter than a homecoming bonfire, and includes the story of the “Gas Can Guitar”.

Max recalls how it all came about...

Listen on the Music page…

A Plate Full
Serves it Up

That's right, a Plate Full O' Blues is fine group of pros that can dish out a smokin' hot set with the man himself.

Find out more…