Mac
Arnold and Plate Full O’ Blues is a blues band
that brings back the authentic “down home” blues
deeply rooted in the tradition and legacy of the Muddy
Waters Chicago Blues Band of the 1960’s in which
Mac Arnold played bass. Mac had brought to Chicago
a new bass beat from the root music in the Piedmont
of South Carolina - a beat influenced by the combination
of gospel and country music. During this time, Mac
played with some of the very best in rhythm and blues,
including the young James Brown and the Charles Miller
Band.
In 1991, a young harmonica player steeped in the blues
- Max Hightower - discovered Mac on his family’s
farm in Greenville County, South Carolina and learned
that he had played with Muddy Waters. Max pursued him
for ten years before Mac finally agreed to return to
the blues with a group of very talented young white
musicians who recognized what Mac’s musical history
of playing with the blues greats could mean to them
and their passion for the blues.
This is the Southern Americana story of the band and
the step-by-step progression of Mac Arnold’s
remarkable return to the world of the blues told by
award-winning documentary filmmaker, Stan Woodward.
Stan bonded with Mac and the band and provides us with
an intimate “inside” look at the blues
world in the 21st century through his signature hand-held
camera as he follows Mac each step of the way.
Nominated for the 2011 Blues Foundation Award
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