I attended the concert of Mac Arnold and a Plate Full of Blues at Artisphere in Greenville, SC
and loved every minute of it. Left there with a darn good sunburn but there wasn't anything that
was going to keep me from watching and enjoying this wonderful group. Believe me when I say
NO ONE CAN SIT STILL DURING A MAC ARNOLD AND PLATE FULL OF BLUES CONCERT!

Barbara
Taylors, SC

Thanks to all who made this happen. Mr. Arnold is an amazing gentleman. His historical background alone is more than enough to fulfill our mission statement....then throw in one of the best Blues bands ever to be in Studio-B and we have had one of the all-time great sessions.

Dennis Jones
WNCW-FM Technical Director
PO Box 804 Spindale NC 28160

Studio-B: 828-287-8000 Ext. 328
FAX: 828-287-8012

From: Terryh321@aol.com
To: plantationone@hotmail.com
Subject: root bar
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:51:06 EDT

I ENJOYED THE SHOW AT THE ROOT BAR VERY, VERY, MUCH. I'M USUALLY HARD CORE
BLUEGRASS BUT I DON'T THINK ANY MUSIC LOVER COULD NOT HAVE A GOOD TIME AT ONE OF
MAC'S SHOWS.

Janiva Magness & Mac Arnold: Two Genuine Blues Survivors
Posted: 2006-03-30

By Jim Santella

The blues has suffered through tales of woe and thoughts about what’s gonna happen next. It gives us plenty to think about. But it’s not always sad. Much of what is being shared contains positive ideas about how things can turn around, and how life goes on. We live the adventures long enough to share our experiences with others, and then we’re done.

Long before the music gets old, however, we have the opportunity to live it again and again through the blues tradition. Two blues singers are releasing new albums that share their experiences with us.

Janiva Magness
Do I Move You?
NorthernBlues
2006

Singing from the heart, Janiva Magness interprets timeless roots blues from way back when, as well as Motown R&B impressions from those years when she was just a youngster. Both kinds of blues left an impression on her, and both have become a part of her soul. She lives the music and shares that feeling openly. Her program for this, her seventh album, includes influences from early Mississippi Delta blues pioneers as well as from those who made Chicago and Detroit great powerhouses of musical activity.

Magness is from Detroit, but has been based in Los Angeles for the past twenty years. The whole world of blues contributes to her soulful delivery. She belts ‘em with a powerful spirit and unleashes a whirlwind of emotion every time. The title track, Nina Simone’s “Do I Move You,” comes with hearty, built-in blues sensuality; Magness delivers a natural interpretation with a universal appeal that could have come from any part of the world. Don’t try to pigeonhole her. She represents the blues world in its entirety.

Through her interpretations, ”Stealin’ Sugar” and “I’m Just a Prisoner” come from early blues roots when Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith told us what for. Magness convinces with her down-home delivery and raw-boned demeanor. “Workin’ on My Baby,” “A Man Size Job,” “I Give Up” and “Bad Blood” come from those years when blues was being reinvented by pioneers such as Muddy Waters and Otis Rush, and folks north of the Mississippi were spreadin’ the word casually.

”I’m Just a Prisoner,” “I Can’t Stop Cryin’,” and “I Want You to Have Everything” come from Motown moods that thrill the spirit with deep, soulful feelings. Her universal appeal can’t be overstated. Magness lays it on the line, asking Do I Move You?

Yes, she certainly does on this recommended release.

Visit Janiva Magness on the web.

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues
Nothin’ to Prove
Self Produced
2006

In a program of originals, veteran bluesman Mac Arnold sings about where the blues has been and where it’s headed. His band provides a clear accompaniment that does his voice right, giving the program plenty of down-home comfort. His voice resembles that of B.B. King—and yet no part of his program is any kind of copy. The singer, as well as his stellar band, works from original sources that squeeze the blues from heartfelt experience.

With “Ghetto Blue,” Arnold sings about a large part of that experience. He’s been there, done that, and has nothing to prove. Arnold, who began his professional career as a left-handed electric bass player, worked with Muddy Waters in Chicago, moved to Los Angeles where he worked on the set of Soul Train, backed Bill Withers, and moved back to South Carolina in the ‘80s, where he leads his band in comfortable blues comfort.

Harmonica ace and pianist Max Hightower gives Arnold adventurous accompaniment. Tradition melds with current events as band and singer go on about where we stand. Guitarist Austin Brashier gives “The Truth” a persuasive electric charm while Arnold tells his story with conviction. Pianist Rudy Wyatt romps with “I’ Don’t Know” and strolls unmercifully with “Back to the Country,” capturing every ounce of passion from both.

As Arnold sings “She’s So Mean to Me,” you can feel the blues running through your veins. It’s a classic situation with soulful guitar and harp solos and fills built right into the singer’s passionate tale:

When we first got together, baby, everything was honey sweet
When we first got together, baby, everything was honey sweet
But you just don’t move me like you used to
You gotta stop being mean to me.

And Arnold goes on to explain how things have turned sour, what can be done to improve the situation, and what he hopes will become of it. His blues is filled with family values and positive outcomes. With nothin’ to prove, he’s sure good at getting right to the heart of the matter and leaving us with a recommended souvenir of his robust blues storytelling.

Visit Mac Arnold on the web.

Tracks and Personnel

Do I Move You?

Tracks: I’m Just a Prisoner (of Your Good Lovin’); Workin’ On My Baby; You Were Never Mine; I Can’t Stop Cryin’; Don’t Let Your Memories; I Want You to Have Everything; Do I Move You; Bad Blood; I Give Up; Stealin’ Sugar; A Man Size Job.

Personnel: Janiva Magness: vocals, background vocals, rubboard (10); Colin Linden, guitar, background vocals; Rick Holmstrom: guitar; Jeff Turmes: guitar, bass, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone; Gary Davenport: bass; Richard Bell: piano, organ; John Whynot: electric piano, tambourine, background vocals; Stephen Taylor Hodges: drums; Jessie Alexander: background vocals.

Nothin’ to Prove

Tracks: Blues for You; Nothin’ to Prove; Call Mac Arnold; I Don’t Know; (Get On) Back to the Country; Ghetto Blue; Going Back Home; The Truth; She’s So Mean to Me; (Get On) Back to the Country - Part 2 “Live.”

Personnel: Mac Arnold: lead vocal, bass; Max Hightower: harmonica, guitar, piano; Austin Brashier: guitar, background vocals; Mark McMakin: bass, background vocals; Mike Whitt: drums; Rudy “Blue Shoes” Wyatt: piano (4,5,7); Jim Peterman: Hammond B3 organ (5).

Jim Santella has been contributing CD reviews, concert reviews and DVD reviews to AAJ since 1997. His work has also appeared in Southland Blues, The L.A. Jazz Scene, and Cadence Magazine.

Michael McClune
Crows Feet Productions
Post Office Box 1807
Manhattan Beach, CA 90267
p: 310.546.3630
c: 858.342.2626
michael@crowsfeet.biz
www.crowsfeet.biz

A native of South Carolina, Mac Arnold moved to Chicago in the late 60's to pursue his music career.
Meeting up with sax man A. C. Reed, he played bass in Reed's band briefly, but a one-shot appearance
with Muddy Waters resulted in Arnold touring with the Waters band (the Luther Johnson/Lawhorn/Spann/Clay edition)
for over a year. He also played on several albums, including John Lee Hooker's live set at the Café Au Go-Go
and Otis Spann's The Blues Is Where It's At. Arnold's early years as a musician included playing bass in a high
school band called J. Floyd & the Shamrocks, which included James Brown (yes, that James Brown) on piano,
so his bass playing carried a funky edge to it from the beginning. After falling in love with the California climate
during a tour there with Waters, Arnold decided to move his family to the West Coast, where he formed the
Soul Invaders, who backed up many artists like The Temptations and B. B. King. He later worked for ABC
Television, Soul Train, and subsequently with soul legend Bill Withers. Now back in South Carolina, he's
returned to the blues with his band, Plate Full O' Blues. Arnold's new CD, Nothin' To Prove (Plantation #1
Productions), is a great disc of traditional blues with some modern touches mixed in. Arnold sings on all
the tracks and plays bass on one track. His muscular vocals remind you of a Little Milton/Albert King hybrid.
Plate Full O' Blues consists of Max Hightower (harmonica, slide guitar, piano), Austin Brashier (guitar),
Mark McMakin (bass), and Mike Whitt (drums). They, along with guests Rudy "Blue Shoes" Wyatt (piano)
and Jim Peterman (Hammond B3), play the blues just like it used to be done at Chess. The band wrote
all of the songs here, and though some of them are clearly autobiographical (the title track and "Ghetto
Blue" recount Arnold's music career vividly with plenty of references), all of the tracks sound like there
was plenty of personal experience involved in their composition. Other highlights include "Blues For You,"
which could end up being a future blues anthem, the humorous "Call Mac Arnold," "(Get On) Back To
The Country," a delta blues number which also closes the disc in a live version with some wonderful
slide guitar by Hightower added, and the nine-minute slow-burner, "She's So Mean To Me," with Arnold
on bass, along with superb guitar by Brashier and harmonica by Hightower, that sounds for all the world like
it came straight out of Muddy Waters' catalog. If you like your blues in a traditional vein, this one is highly recommended.

Check out this review on www.bluenight.com/BluesBytes!

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues – “Nothin’ To Prove” – Plantation #1
Productions

CD Reviews / Reviews
Date: Jan 30, 2006 - 07:22 AM By Eddy B (Brake)

It’s not very often that a bass man fronts a Blues band, but Mac Arnold is
one of those few exceptions. Mac began his long history in the Blues back in
1966 when he joined the legendary Muddy Waters band as part of the rhythm
section. Not long after that initiation, Mac found himself recording with
Otis Spann, Tyrone Davis and John Lee Hooker. In the last few years Mac
Arnold is still provin’ his musical value in the Blues world especially with
his most recent album, “Nothin’ To Prove”, a statement that pretty well sums
up that legacy, as he’s been there.

Mac’s singin’ is not the most dynamic I’ve ever heard, but damn, he sure
knows how to belt out those Blues! Along with his sidemen, Plate Full O’
Blues, Max Hightower; harp, slide guitar and piano, Austin Brashier;
guitars, Mark McMakin; bass and Mike Whitt; drums and special guests Rudy
“Blue Shoes” Wyatt on piano, plus Jim Peterson on the Hammond B3 organ, this
band definitely delivers up some simple straight to the point Blues!

Mac and the boys wrote all the tunes and not many songs are in the hurtin’
love category, but they are about the Blues. You can ‘t help but get into
this record as the band let’s you know right away that they are here to play
those “Blues For You”. The title track is up next and Mac will let you know
why he has “Nothin’ To Prove”. Hey woman is your man on the run; well it’s
time to “Call Mac Arnold” for some fun. There are a lot of questions to be
answered on “I Don’t Know Why”. Mac, Rudy and Max go down and dirty on “(Get
On) Back To The Country”, an acoustic number. The funky Blues are presented
in the musical life experience song ”Ghetto Blue”. Another life story is
told in “Going Back Home”. Everybody knows about rumours, and “The Truth”
lets you experience them. The slow Blues of “She’s So Mean To Me” gives you
a hint of Mac’s woman problems. The final cut “(Get On) Back To The Country”
– Part 2” was recorded live and is a juke joint number with Max slidin’
raunchy on the guitar… what a way to close out this set!

Just a suggestion here! Have a listen to this album late at nite after a few
cold ones, you know, when there’s nothin’ more to prove from the day. You’ll
be served up some fine straight-ahead and old-school Blues by Mac Arnold &
Plate Full O’ Blues.

For more on Mac Arnold, check out: http://www.macarnold.com/

Jeez, there’s even a few pictures on Mac’s website of him playin’ a homemade
bass guitar where the body is actually made from a small travelin’ suitcase!

Sail on...
Eddy B
416-921-0313
blueheartarchive@sympatico.ca
http://www.blueheartarchive.com
So much Blues, so little time.

Just wanted to let you know what a great time I had and what a great show
you guys put on Tuesday Night at blues city café.

Mac Arnold and his band was so great, I’m telling everyone about the show
and how everyone in the band was unbelievable.

I have not seen that much talent on one stage in along time. Hey let me
know how things turned out in the contest. I will order a cd soon

Thanks for a great SHOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ray from Atlanta

Mac Arnold & Plate Full 'O Blues
– Nothin’ To Prove
Plantation Productions MA 31605

South Carolina Native Mac Arnold traveled to the Windy City in 1965 to further his musical career. At age 24 the bassist/vocalist briefly worked with A.C. Reed before touring with Muddy Waters for a year. He's one of the last surviving members of water's great '60s bands. and he played on two classic ABC-Bluesway recordings from that era: John Lee Hooker's Live at the Caf'e Au Go-Go and Otis Spann's The Blues Is Where It's At. In the early '70s Arnold moved to LosAngeles, where he found work with Soul Train, Bill Withers, and Redd Foxx's Laff Records before returning home in the '80s.
These nine group penned originals seem inspired mainly by Chicago masters like Waters. The universal topics and varied grooves might be familiar, but the exceptionally versatile Plate Full O' Blues --- guitarist Austin Brashier, bassist Mark McMakin, drummer Mike Whitt, and surprising multi-instrumentalist Max Hightower, who contributes masterful slide, harp, and piano --- performs Arnold's songs with infectious energy, keeping their material fresh and vital. Arnold's gravelly vocals are reminiscent of Eddie Shaw's but there are traces of Waters and Albert King as well. He plays bass only on the nine-minute lament "She's So Mean To Me," which evokes elements of the three Kings.
Favorite tracks include "Blues for You," an anthem in the style of Little Milton's "Hey, Hey, the Blues Is Alright" that's propelled by Brashier's brittle' stinging leads; the rollinking New Orleans R&B boast "Call Mac Arnold"; and the title track, a declamatory Arnold's disdain for apologies, excuses, comparisons, and regrets. This is old-school blues at its finest. Torch-bearer Arnold and his cohorts keep the flame burning brightly on one of the best Traditional blues albums of the year.

THOMAS J. CULLEN III
BLUES REVUE Magazine 2005

Bob Margolin
pfobmusic
"welcome back a deep Chicago Bluesman from the old school"
- Bob Margolin

JAZZNOW Magazine
DOROTHY L. HILL
Mac Arnold & Plate Full O' Blues
Nothin' To Prove
Plantation #1 Productions MA31605

Mac Arnold, lead vocal and bass; Max Hightower, harmonica, slide guitar and piano; Austin Brashier, guitars and background vocals; Mark McMakin, bass and background vocals; and, Mike Whitt, drums. Special guests are Rudy "Blue Shoes" Wyatt on piano and Jim Peterman on Hammond B3 Organ

Mac Arnold made the journey from his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina to Chicago and hooked up with A. C. Reed which almost immediately led to a stint playing bass for Muddy Waters in 1967. After a long career as a sideman in other blues bands and on television shows (Soul Train), Arnold moved back south. He has now formed a new band and this CD is a result of that collaboration.

The opening cut of "Blues For You" sets the pace with a great bass shuffle for this downhome blues CD. The title cut of "Nothin' To Prove" is a personalized blues rap by Arnold about his longevity in the business with Hightower on captivating harmonica support. Arnold's vocals on "Call Mac Arnold" are particularly earthy and the guitar is bluesy to the max on this catchy tune. A highlight is "I Don't Know" on which Arnold draws out the lyrics with pungency and the pianist sensitively hits just the right key to add variety to the texture of this tune. The country blues tune "(Get On) Back To The Country" features a rhythmically supple harmonica solo. The latter tune is reprised as the last cut and a vibrant slide guitar accompaniment spices it up with Arnold's rawer than usual vocals. The Hammond B3 tastefully drives the Chicago-style "Ghetto Blue" and Arnold's vocal statement about playing with various blues artists such as Muddy Waters and Tyrone Davis. "The Truth" has an undulating melody and the upbeat tempo showcases an enthralling guitar accompaniment. On "She's Mean To Me" Arnold's engrossing vocals are controlled and keep pace with the shifting tempos laid down by the harmonica and guitar on this slow bluesy rendering.

The ten cuts are all originals and are intriguing as they seemingly relate to Arnold's life experience. This is an excellent offering with solid support by a group of seasoned musicians. Arnold has a muscular vocal style that knocks me out. If you like Muddy Waters, check this one out if only for the vocal phrasing.

by Dorothy L. Hill

Peter 'Cornbread' Cohen
STLBlues

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues – Nothin’ To Prove Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues – Nothin’ To Prove
{April 2005 | Plantation #1 Productions}

Mac has played with James Brown, Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Otis Spann and Tyrone Davis. He’s played on Soul Train and was part of Muddy’s band in the sixties. Sheesh is that a resume or what?

I first got a taste of Mac on the CD sampler from Blues Revue, I thought his song was the best on the sampler. Mac sings lead vocal on all songs, he plays some bass, guitar and even has credit writing.

Tracks:

1. Blues For You – for me? Thanks. Great bass shuffle, mouth waterin’ guitar playin’ and good vocals.

2. Nothin' To Prove – killer harmonica fills.

3. Call Mac Arnold – electric blues, great song musically, easily could be a radio favorite.

4. I Don’t Know – mighty fine piano blues.

5. (Get On) Back To The Country – piano and harmonica on this slow back to the Delta blues.

6. Ghetto Blue – an R&B Chicago blues journey with crisp guitar and a taste of Hammond B-3. Three thumbs up – I really dig this track.

7. Going Back Home – piano, harmonica and electric guitar snipits, could ya ask for more?

8. The Truth – prominent vocals with tons of mojo, very cool, right on, yea man.

9. She’s So Mean To Me – Mac on bass, sweeeet guitar with harmonica chasers.

10. (Get On) Back To The Country (Part 2 “Live”) – this time with some slide guitar.

Nothin’ To Prove is consistent “good blues” through and through, one of the best CD’s I’ve had the privilege of reviewing and previewing. Cornbread says go and get this CD y’all, you won’t be disappointed. Visit Mac on the web at www.macarnold.com. Rating 4.835 – wow!

Ciao' for now, peace.
Peter 'Cornbread' Cohen, CBP
~ Cornbread@STLBlues.net ~

After listening to [this CD] for the first time, you could be forgiven for thinking that [it was part of] long lost treasures, found purely by accident by someone trawling through the archives in a record company’s vaults and coming across a box of previously unreleased tapes that had lain there unnoticed for fifty plus years.

You can assume, from my comments that this music is vintage blues and R&B, rooted in the 50s/60s, and imbued with the tough, uncompromising, compelling veracity and attitude that fired the music of that period; real blues that reflected the hardships, pain, frustrations, hope and joy that permeated the lives of black Americans in the ghettoes during that era.

Mac Arnold is described by Bob Margolin as “a deep Chicago bluesman from the “old school”, an apt description for a man who played, briefly, with Muddy Waters in the late 60s, featuring on the Bluesway albums “Live At The Café Au Go Go” (John Lee Hooker with the Muddy Waters Band) and “The Blues Is Where It’s At / Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do” (Otis Spann) both in 1966.

With that résumé, it’s not surprising that Arnold’s music is rooted in the classic Chicago styles of Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers, with great ensemble playing from Plate Full O’ Blues replete with Little Walter styled harp, Deep rolling piano and tough, uncompromising guitar, all underpinning Arnold’s compelling, blues drenched vocals.

The influence of Jimmy Rogers is evident in “Call Mac Arnold” and “Going Back Home”, relaxed shuffles with catchy guitar, piano and harp hooks. Further shuffles mine a funky groove (“I Don’t Know”); “The Truth” churning with a brooding persona; whilst the opening track, “Blues For You”, with it’s unpretentious rhythms and “lived in” vocals let you know that you are in for a “vintage” treat.

“Ghetto Blue” is a semi-autobiographical, funky blues that name checks the artists Arnold has worked with, fired by Austin Brashier’s tantalizing guitar and bathed by Jim Peterman’s B3, the rest of the tracks falling irresistibly into the Muddy Waters bag. “Nothin’ To Prove”, “(Get On) Back To The Country” and “She’s So Mean To Me” are brooding blues replete with anguished vocals; “Nothin..” featuring tough slide and harp (Max Hightower), “(Get On)” fired by deep rolling piano and wailing harp, whilst “She’s So Mean..” finds Brashier’s guitar crying in sympathy with Arnold’s vocals. That leaves a “killer” live version of “(Get On)” that sounds like vintage early 50’s Muddy, with vicious slide, trashcan drums and dark-hued bass lines underpinning Arnold’s feral vocals.

Great Stuff!

Mick Rainsford

Mike Halmo here WBOR, 91.1 FM Brunswick, Maine. Mac's cd charted here at WBOR last month as number 8 in our top 25. This ranking was sent to Living Blues Magazine. Personally, I think this disc rocks. Mac's vocals are strong, powerful yet not overbearing. Great band, tight and rocking but with just the right hint of bluesy felling to them. Down home blues at it's best with a great master of the genre and legend that I believe has just been rediscovered. Awesome blues from someone who's been there!

Best to you and regards to Mac

Mike Halmo
Blues Director
WBOR
Brunwick, Maine

Hello, send the CD of Mac, is fantastic, maintains roots of the blues of chicago, this saturday 14 of May, I present/display it in the radio program in which it will tell to l biografia of Mac and listened to you again 4 listeners track CD, very been thankful by the CD and we will be rotating it in the radio.

Lendro Crisafulli, Blues Argentine ETC

BLUES & RHYTHM MAGAZINE
MAC ARNOLD: Nothin’ To Prove
Plantation #1 Productions MA31605 (48:43)
Blues For You/ Nothin To Prove/ Call Mac Arnold/ I Don’t Know/ (Get On) Back
To The Country/ Ghetto Blue/ Going Back Home/ The Truth/ She’s So Mean To
Me/ (Get On) Back To The Country (live)

Never heard of Mac Arnold? You’ve obviously not been paying close enough attention to your Muddy Waters discography (wake up at the back there Smith!). The southpaw bass player played on two Bluesway sessions in August
of 1966 (by Otis Spann and John Lee Hooker) as a member of the Muddy Waters band. South Carolina born, Mac’s high school band was often joined by Macon, Georgia native, James Brown on piano. After deciding to pursue a career in
music Mac joined the Charles Miller group until 1965 when he moved to Chicago to work with saxophonist A.C. Reed.
In 1966 Mac joined the Muddy Waters Band, after more than a year with Muddy, Mac formed The Soul Invaders, which backed up many artists, including The Temptations. In the early 1970s he moved to Los Angeles to work at ABC
Television and Laff Records This led to work on the set of ‘Soul Train’ from 1971 to 1975 and then he joined Bill Withers before moving back to South Carolina in the 1980s. Mac now resides in Pelzer, South Carolina, where aged
ten he got his first taste of the blues when he learned to play his brother Leroy's home-made guitar. Mac does all the vocals, however if I understand the notes correctly he actually plays bass on only one song (‘She’s So Mean To Me’). Backing is by Plate Full O’ Blues who comprise Mark McMakin on bass and backing vocals; Austin Brashier on guitar and backing vocals; Max Hightower on keyboards, harmonica and guitar and Mike Whitt on drums. All material is original, penned by Arnold and the band. The opener ‘Blues For You’ is a shuffle in the Albert King mould propelled along by Brashier’s nippy lead breaks. ‘Nothin To Prove’ (vocals and ‘rap’ by Mac) is an intensely personal piece relating Mac’s times and troubles in the music business, Hightower shines on harp. ‘Call Mac Arnold’ is a modern blues with a catchy hook, but the mood changes abruptly with ‘(Get On) Back To The Country’, a downhome vocal, harp and piano country blues. This number is reprised as the last cut on the CD, this time it’s a live version with full band in the classic 1950s Muddy style with thumping bass drum and in-the-alley slide from Hightower. Hammond B3 is added for ‘Ghetto Blue’, another personal piece about Mac’s time in the Windy City, relating his experiences in the bands of A.C. Reed, Muddy Waters and Tyrone Davis. ‘The Truth’ is the truth, a sweet-as-a-nut modern blues with a gut-churning rhythm line and a shed load of tasty fills from Brashier. ‘She's So Mean To Me’ is a nine minute long slowie in the B.B. King tradition with Mac demonstrating his bass prowess (personally I would have had his old school bass playing on all the songs). Mac Arnold has a muscular vocal style and the band offer support without grandstanding. It’s good to hear old school traditional blues played these days and this CD surely gets the nod from me, Mac Arnold is keeping the flame burning brightly.

Phil Wight

Mac Arnold is just great, a powerful blues singer. This is the blues I love:
traditional, non-nonsence, played from the heart. The song "She's So Mean To
Me" made my jaw drop and I'm sure that will do the same with my listeners.

Przemek Draheim (The Voice Of The Blues) Brawo 92.8 FM Ciechocinek (Poland)
www.radiobrawo.pl

5 out of 5 stars Old time Chicago blues, October 11, 2005

Reviewer: Willy (Hazlet, N.J.) - See all my reviews

If you like traditional Chicago blues then this cd is for you.All orginal
songs and Mac Arnold has a great blues voice that sounds like Willie Kent.He
has a very tight band with Max Hightower playing not only slide guitar but a
great blues harp.This has got to be a WC Handy nominee for best album of the
year in 2005.

Nothin’ To Prove is consistent “good blues” through and through, one of the
best CD’s I’ve had the privilege of reviewing and previewing. Cornbread says
go and get this CD y’all, you won’t be disappointed. Visit Mac on the web at
www.macarnold.com. Rating 4.835 – wow!

Ciao' for now, peace.
Peter 'Cornbread' Cohen, CBP
~ Cornbread@STLBlues.net ~

Martin "Lester" Dunstan
presents JuzBlooz, Tuesdays 8.30 pm on 3WAY-FM, 103.7 MHz, Warrnambool,
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Mac Arnold & Plate Full O' Blues, Nothin' To Prove

Great CD ? nice and nasty! "Nothin' To Prove" has been added to the
JuzBlooz playlist already, and kicked in at #9 for December's Top 25 list
(to be forwarded to Living Blues).

I have just realised that Mac is not a nominee in the "Blues Music Awards"
and i have to ask why!!!
this is the best traditional blues album that has been released this year!!!
am i missing something.............?
Sharna