Showing posts with label Nigel Mack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigel Mack. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Nigel Mack - Road Rage

Size: 372 MB
Time: 50:55
File: Flac
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. You Don't Love Me (5:30)
2. I Want to be Loved (3:45)
3. 500 yds of Paradise (4:38)
4. Don't You Know That I Love You (6:03)
5. Its The Night (6:07)
6. Just What I Say (3:24)
7. Great River (4:09)
8. Rock Bottom (4:17)
9. The Sky Is Crying (8:49)
10. Who (4:09)

Chicago blues ‘triple threat’ (slide guitar, harmonica and vocals) Nigel Mack delivers a high-energy show that fuses blues classics with the punch of contemporary original blues. Seamlessly switching between instruments, Nigel Mack is equally proficient at them all. These are talents honed by years of relentless touring in support of his four critically-acclaimed releases; Back In Style, Devil’s Secrets, Road Rage and High Price to Play. Nigel’s new all-original album, Back In Style is receiving glowing reviews and attained #1 on the RMR Contemporary Blues Charts! His previous release, Devil’s Secrets, reached #1 on the Canadian blues charts and won ‘Best Self-Produced CD’ from the Windy City Blues Society, in Chicago.

Mack’s original compositions have been featured on television sound-tracks ‘Dawson’s Creek’, ‘The Street’ and ‘Time of Your Life’.

Nigel Mack has been living in Chicago, IL since 2003 and performing in the ‘the home of the blues’, since 1992. Over the years ‘Nigel Mack Blues Attack’ have logged over a million miles across North America and Europe and headlined top blues venues throughout. They have appeared at the world famous ‘Chicago Blues Festival’ six times and toured virtually every one of the United States and most of Canada. Mack’s dynamic stage show is a favorite at clubs and festivals everywhere.

Nigel grew up in Saskatoon, Canada, listening to the music of the ‘60’s, Bebop jazz and Big Bands emanating from his Dad’s stereo. Saskatoon’s university and location guaranteed that everybody touring western Canada played there. The types of artists were varied and eclectic: Muddy Waters, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Stevie Ray Vaughan, just to name a few.

The ‘blues explosion’ in the mid-eighties led to a weekly gig at ‘Buds on Broadway’, which featured touring blues artists from all over. As Saturday jam session host, Nigel met and performed with blues legends such as Eddy Shaw, Phil Guy, Amos Garrett, Brent Parkin and Big Dave Mclean.

In the spring of 1988 Nigel and his band relocated to the musical hotbed, Vancouver, BC. From this west coast base Mack built a strong local following and toured around western Canada.

In 1992, Nigel received a call from Chicago blues band leader Eddie Lusk inviting him to perform during the Chicago Blues Festival with ‘The Professor’s Blues Revue’. Nigel seized the opportunity and began touring the US with a vengeance, racking up seventeen American/Canadian coast to coast tours over the next ten years.

1996 saw the release of Mack’s first full length all-original CD High Price to Play. It garnered critical acclaim, a nomination for ‘Best Blues/R&B Album’ at the 1997 ‘West Coast Music Awards’ and three songs on major TV sound tracks!

Nigel Mack followed High Price to Play with Road Rage, released in 2001. Essentially a live album, Road Rage blends blues classics with original songs and three studio tracks. It continues to be a favorite among fans.

When not touring, Nigel spends the majority of time recording and performing in and around Chicago. A decade earlier, the seeds of this move had been planted. On that first trip, Eddie Lusk had said, “This is where you should be!” With the release of ‘Back In Style’, his chart-topping, all-original album, Nigel Mack is building on past successes and bringing his own brand of Chicago blues to a new generation of blues fans.

‘Nigel Mack Blues Attack’ are sure to put on a high-powered show that you will remember for a long time!


Road Rage FLAC

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Nigel Mack - High Price to Play

Size: 333 MB
Time: 50:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Gal Friday (3:44)
2. Trouble X 3 (3:49)
3. Someone Like You (4:15)
4. Haven't Finished Loving Her (4:41)
5. Six Steel Strings (3:57)
6. Extra Extra (4:49)
7. Used To Be's (4:03)
8. Letter From The Birmingham Jail (7:24)
9. Bad Girls (3:10)
10. Nobody & You (4:00)
11. Bedroom Eyes (3:52)
12. How Do I Know (3:06)

Bio Chicago blues ‘triple threat’ (slide guitar, harmonica and vocals) Nigel Mack delivers a high-energy show that fuses blues classics with the punch of contemporary original blues. Seamlessly switching between instruments, Nigel Mack is equally proficient at them all. These are talents honed by years of relentless touring in support of his four critically-acclaimed releases; Back In Style, Devil’s Secrets, Road Rage and High Price to Play. Nigel’s new all-original album, Back In Style is receiving glowing reviews and attained #1 on the RMR Contemporary Blues Charts! His previous release, Devil’s Secrets, reached #1 on the Canadian blues charts and won ‘Best Self-Produced CD’ from the Windy City Blues Society, in Chicago.

Mack’s original compositions have been featured on television sound-tracks ‘Dawson’s Creek’, ‘The Street’ and ‘Time of Your Life’.

Nigel Mack has been living in Chicago, IL since 2003 and performing in the ‘the home of the blues’, since 1992. Over the years ‘Nigel Mack Blues Attack’ have logged over a million miles across North America and Europe and headlined top blues venues throughout. They have appeared at the world famous ‘Chicago Blues Festival’ six times and toured virtually every one of the United States and most of Canada. Mack’s dynamic stage show is a favorite at clubs and festivals everywhere.

Nigel grew up in Saskatoon, Canada, listening to the music of the ‘60’s, Bebop jazz and Big Bands emanating from his Dad’s stereo. Saskatoon’s university and location guaranteed that everybody touring western Canada played there. The types of artists were varied and eclectic: Muddy Waters, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Stevie Ray Vaughan, just to name a few.

The ‘blues explosion’ in the mid-eighties led to a weekly gig at ‘Buds on Broadway’, which featured touring blues artists from all over. As Saturday jam session host, Nigel met and performed with blues legends such as Eddy Shaw, Phil Guy, Amos Garrett, Brent Parkin and Big Dave Mclean.

In the spring of 1988 Nigel and his band relocated to the musical hotbed, Vancouver, BC. From this west coast base Mack built a strong local following and toured around western Canada.

In 1992, Nigel received a call from Chicago blues band leader Eddie Lusk inviting him to perform during the Chicago Blues Festival with ‘The Professor’s Blues Revue’. Nigel seized the opportunity and began touring the US with a vengeance, racking up seventeen American/Canadian coast to coast tours over the next ten years.

1996 saw the release of Mack’s first full length all-original CD High Price to Play. It garnered critical acclaim, a nomination for ‘Best Blues/R&B Album’ at the 1997 ‘West Coast Music Awards’ and three songs on major TV sound tracks!

Nigel Mack followed High Price to Play with Road Rage, released in 2001. Essentially a live album, Road Rage blends blues classics with original songs and three studio tracks. It continues to be a favorite among fans.

When not touring, Nigel spends the majority of time recording and performing in and around Chicago. A decade earlier, the seeds of this move had been planted. On that first trip, Eddie Lusk had said, “This is where you should be!” With the release of ‘Back In Style’, his chart-topping, all-original album, Nigel Mack is building on past successes and bringing his own brand of Chicago blues to a new generation of blues fans.

‘Nigel Mack Blues Attack’ are sure to put on a high-powered show that you will remember for a long time!

High Price to Play FLAC

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Nigel Mack - Back In Style

Size: 109.6 MB
Time: 46:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Travellin' Heavy (3:35)
02. Highway 69 (4:16)
03. Damn You Mr. Bluesman (4:41)
04. Cold Comfort (4:29)
05. Graveyard Gate (3:44)
06. Back In Style (3:51)
07. Redemption (2:30)
08. A Place To Call Home (3:58)
09. Blues Enough For You (3:26)
10. Shangri-La Girl (3:39)
11. Jalapeno Peppers (4:04)
12. Just One Man (4:14)

When Chicago bluesman Nigel Mack isn't gigging in clubs around the windy city, he's most likely off headlining shows somewhere around the United States, Europe or his homeland of Canada, with his killer band - The Blues Attack.

Nigel's fourth release is titled Back In Style and it contains twelve original tracks. For the project, Nigel - on vocals, harmonica, electric/acoustic/steel guitar, foot stomps and horn arrangements - used no less than eight keyboardists; six drummers; four bassists; and several other instrumentalists; as he assembled an all star cast of Chicago's finest blues musicians.

Being nearly as famous as Highways 41 and 69, a.k.a. the crossroads, there have been many blues songs about "Highway 69", with several actually sharing the same title. That said, with Nigel belting the hell out of the vocals and nailing the slide guitar that's so pivotal to the song, this is indeed a worthy tribute to that well-traveled, oft sung about road. Of course, the rhythm guitar support from JR Wydra, the smokin' keyboard leads from Brian James and the perfect traveling rhythm from Andrew "Blaze" Thomas and Vic Jackson on the drums and bass, also have a lot to do with that.

"Cold Comfort" tells a tale of a short, yet long enough to become rocky, romance between a singer in a band going to Vegas for a three week stand, and a dancer in a chorus line. It features great guitar work from Nigel, thunderous rhythm from Andrew "Blaze" Thomas and Andre Howard on the drums and bass; and monster piano and organ leads on what I am told is the last song the late and great Marty Sammon would ever play on. R.I.P Marty!

Contrary to its title, "Graveyard Gate" is actually a love song. It's a story about the loneliness a man and woman struggle with from their time apart. Their concern is reuniting before ultimately heading to the graveyard gate. It's a wind driven smoker with Nigel blowing the hell out of the harmonica; Lise Gilly and Victor Garcia also blowing the hell out of the sax and trumpet; and on its only appearance, as it is getting closed by the blowing of the wind - an actual graveyard gate in a cemetery in Bédoin, France, on rusty squeaks and loud slams.

Those of us who have seen his live shows already know this, but for those who haven't and might be wondering if Nigel Mack is a harmonica player who can also play guitar or a guitar player who can also play harmonica, "Back In Style" - the title track - will clearly answer that question. Excelling on both, his first instrument is the harmonica, and his other first instrument is the guitar. This time, with Malcom Banks on on the drums and Derwin Davis on the keyboards joining Andre Howard (who sadly, is also no longer with us) on the bass, the fast and furious rhythm makes this one a sure dance floor filler.

"Blues Enough For You" is an acoustic track that offers a small sample of what you might expect to experience at one of Nigel's solo shows. It features him blowin', pickin', strummin', and singing the hell out of the song.

As I was listening to this track, I misread the song listing and thought its title was "Jalapeño Peppers". Then I realized that was the name of the next track, not this one. The interesting part of all this is that this track is titled "Shangri-la Girl", and it's hotter than a whole bunch of jalapeño peppers could ever be. It's a flat out pedal to the metal smoker with everyone in jam mode. Lise Gilly and Neal O'Hara are in a race on the sax and piano that no one is losing; Andre Howard and Larry Beers are creating a joyful ruckus on the rhythm; and Nigel is totally tearing it up on both of his first instruments.

Other tracks on this fabulous release include: "Travellin' Heavy"; "Damn You Mr. Bluesman"; "Redemption"; "A Place To Call Home"; "Just One Man"; and of course, "Jalapeño Peppers". ~Peter "Blewzzman" Lauro

Back In Style MP3
Back In Style FLAC

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Nigel Mack - Devil's Secrets

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 45:48
Size: 104.9 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:53] 1. King for a Day
[3:59] 2. Devil's Secrets
[3:21] 3. Here's to You
[3:43] 4. Come Back Baby
[4:10] 5. Dead Presidents (Don't Tell No Tales)
[4:34] 6. Make You Love Me
[3:04] 7. Chicago Bound
[4:01] 8. Do It for a Change
[3:34] 9. Meet Her Funk
[2:52] 10. Mid Life Crisis
[4:56] 11. Strut Your Stuff
[3:38] 12. Let's Make a Date

'Devil's Secrets' is the highly anticipated all-original release from Nigel Mack, 'Canada's Blues Ambassador to Chicago'. It is the third album by the blues multi-instrumentalist and singer, following his two critically acclaimed CDs 'Road Rage' and 'High Price To Play.
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'Devil's Secrets' features many different blues styles, from horn laden R&B and juke-joint harmonica instrumentals, to New Orleans funk and Chicago style blues. It chronicles Nigel move from Vancouver Canada to Chicago, IL in 2003. An all-star cast of top musicians from both countries (including special guest CJ Chennier) reflects his years of touring as a bandleader and his dedication as a record producer.
'Devil's Secrets' was tracked at Joyride Studios in Chicago, IL (with Grammy award-winning engineer Blaise Barton), Blue Wave studios in Vancouver, BC and was mixed by award-winning engineer Perry Barrett in Nashville TN. It is the third album produced by Nigel Mack, with a sharp eye toward high production values, while still embracing the honesty of the blues.

Devil's Secrets