This old school blues band, Mac Arnold played to a full house at the Peacock Performing Arts Center in Hayesville last year and was gracious enough to accept our offer to play for us again at 7 p.m. Saturday Feb. 18.
His music will make you move, feel and see why he was given an honorary doctoral degree in music from the University of South Carolina.
Arnold started his career at an early age and it reads like a “Who’s Who” of blues and R&B legends. His high school band included James Brown on piano. At the age of 24 he joined the Muddy Waters Band and help shape the electric blues sound that inspired the rock and roll movement in the late 60s. He then formed the Soul Invaders which backed up artists like the Temptations and B.B. King. Arnold spent five years on the set of “Soul Train” and worked with Bill Withers, “Lean on Me” before moving back to his native South Carolina.
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