Live CD coming soon...
A live CD recorded with Kim Wilson, Bob Margolin and Willie Smith during this year's Cornbread & Collard Greens Festival is currently being mixed and should be available in August. Check back later for more info.
Mac Arnold accepts Blues Music Award
Mac Arnold was on hand for the 31st annual Blues Music Awards held May 6 in Memphis. Mac accepted the award for Best Historical Album for his participation on the 1966 recording Muddy Waters - Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium (Geffen Records) The recording was released in 2009.
Country Man now available!
Our latest release Country Man is now out on the VizzTone Label Group.
Produced by Bob Margolin, also of Muddy Waters fame.
Listen to Mac in a recent interview about his life and the new recording, or download the podcast at A1Blues.com
Mac Arnold Documentary screens at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
South Carolina documentary
filmmaker Stan Woodward has completed his documentary on the band entitled NOTHING TO PROVE: The Story of Mac
Arnold’s Return to the Blues. The premiere showing was held in Greenville at the Handlebar on
Dec. 9, 2009 and it was recently screened at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. It will also be broadcast statewide
by SC Educational Television and be widely available for commercial release.
"Mac Arnold is a key part of blues history. He really is unique in that he connects his life and music to the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, and the South Carolina blues tradition. And it is rare that these worlds are ever linked together as they are in the life and music of Mac."
Read a pre-release review here...
Fourth Annual Mac Arnold Cornbread & Collard Greens Blues Festival
The 2010 festival was held April 28–May 1. The four-night series of shows included many special guests featuring the Muddy Waters Revue! See the festival page for more...
Look for the 2011 festival coming next April!
Mac Arnold Awarded State Honors
Mac Arnold is an honoree of the 2010 South Carolina African American History Calendar
— Click for more info and free download...
In 2006 Mac Arnold was also awarded the South Carolina Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award and performed at the State House.
Blues For Brown
Benefit for UPS driver Josh Worley
held Sept. 18, 2009 in Greenville
The benefit went great! All seats sold out and there was standing room only. Josh's son Justin, age 14, got up and played drums with the band. The crowd responded with a standing ovation. Josh was presented with a guitar signed by all the musicians.
Click here for more info and to see the photos...
Mac Arnold featured in rock video
Click here to see Mac in a Parmalee video...
Blues the Schools Program helping keep kids in school
As members of the SC Arts Commission, the band arranged a program for Blues in the Schools and has written a song “I Can Do Anything” to help inspire kids to stay in school. The song is on their CD Backbone & Gristle and recorded live with the Greer High, Middle, Elementary School Choir and Marching Band. Here's more about the program...
Mac Arnold Featured in National Magazines
Magazines such as Living Blues , Soul Bag (European), G Magazine and many other publications have featured stories on Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues. Check the links page for more.