Lonnie Mack

lonnie mack is an interesting guitarist coming froming the south with country style chicken-picking he always has the flat on the right note steve vai used to say when speaking about that he had an intriguing style where for example he would play solo that was haphazardly phrased and then unexpectedly picking up the flair of virtuosity through a spectacular technical sequence like the sudden gassing of a running motor vehicle he used to surprise with his innuendo ways steve vai is like the crossroads at the moment where the machio character having classically trained to fight a guitar duel through the epitomization of the devil's guitar slinger who sold for innumerable profession of talent the character goes along around the south delighting the charm of subtle social difference in racial and social segregation and spends time out in the field while an old blues starter learns him the country ethic of the railroad culture with a musical emulation of the train sounds on harmonica and slide guitar the movie ends with the final cutting contest that is decided by a hidden esoteric interpretation of a technical piece that ends in a way that is only converted through passing down of the craft through refined study