Bobby Mack

b. 19 June 1954, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Dismissed early in his career as a second-rate Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texan guitarist Mack has begun to develop his own identity with two well-received studio sets, and some tough live appearances with his band Night Train. During the 70s, Mack was playing a mix of blues and rock in a covers band, Thrills, before forming his own Austin-based blues outfit. Austin was at this time the centre of an underground blues movement that included Stevie Ray Vaughan and his brother Jimmy (who went on to form the Fabulous Thunderbirds with Kim Wilson),...