Saturday Jan 30
Mac Arnold
and Plate Full Of Blues
8pm
One of the hottest blues band's in America returns to White Horse Black Mountain for a special Concert !!!!!
From a farm in rural Pelzer, South Carolina to the South Side of Chicago to Los Angeles and back to South Carolina, Mac Arnold has lived and breathed music for most of his 67 years.
Growing up in a large farming family, Mac got his first taste of the blues when he learned to play his brother Leroy’s home-made guitar at the age 
of ten. He quickly decided that playing music had far more promise and far less back aches than the farming life and soon embarked on a musical career that would take all over America and into Europe.
Mac quickly made a name for himself in upstate South Carolina. His high school band “J Floyd & The Shamrocks” were often joined by a young relatively unknown piano player from Georgia, James Brown. Of course James Brown would go on to become the "Godfather of Soul".
After playing local clubs and fish-fry's in Greenville County SC, Mac decided he was ready for a musical challenge and what better challenge than a move to Windy 
City of Chicago where a bluesman was sure to get work playing bass at a local Chicago clubs for the local blues bands.
It was at one of the clubs, that blues legend Muddy Waters heard the young country boy and hired him on the spot. The Muddy Waters Band including Mac Arnold, helped shape the electric blues sound that inspired the rock and roll movement of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Regular guests of the band included Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, and Elvin Bishop. The Muddy Waters Band (as a unit) shared the stage with the likes of Howlin’ Wolfe, 
Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Junior Wells, Big Joe Williams, and Big Mama Thornton just to name a few.
After more than a year with Muddy Waters, Mac formed his own band, the Soul Invaders which backed up many artists, including The Temptations and B. B. King. During this time, Mac Arnold also played on John Lee Hooker’s “live “album, Live at the Café Au Go-Go, as well as Otis Spann’s classic recording “The Blues is Where It’s At”.
Mac retired back to Pelzer SC and resumed his life as a farmer for several years before being rediscovered.
Mac Arnold is again at the top of the blues world having made two tours of Europe in 2009. He rolls into Black Mountain with a fresh new CD and a barrel of blues fun to deliver. BE THERE !!!!!
