Artist: Mac Wiseman
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #69 May-June 2007
John Prine & Mac Wiseman – Standard Songs For Average People
John Prine and Mac Wiseman are not average people, and the songs they’ve chosen for this low-key collection are hardly standard. Prine is famous for a superior catalogue of songs with lyrics that boast a wry sensibility and emotional acuity. Wiseman, who turns 82 in May, is known for his mellow tenor voice, which first [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Mac Wiseman – On Susan’s Floor
This second volume of Bear Family’s revealing, entertaining retrospective of the musical adventures of this singular singer will take listeners into surprising places — even those who figure they know Mac Wiseman’s work pretty well. The 114 tracks here begin where the earlier ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered box leaves off — Mac taking up [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Mac Wiseman – ‘Tis sweet to be remembered – accurately
His bluegrass recordings from the 1950s often comes to mind first. For some historians, and even hard-core fans, that’s all that comes to mind. For a lauded, unforgettable American singer whose key songs were more than once about memory itself, there’s a lot about what Mac Wiseman has done, and what he can do, that [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Mac Wiseman – ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: Complete Recordings 1951-1964 (6-CD box)
You’d figure Mac Wiseman would be one of the handful of universally recognized first-generation bluegrass giants familiar to listeners well beyond the hardcore fans of the genre. Before 1950, after all, he’d already dueted with Lester in Flatt & Scruggs’ band, moved on to sing leads with Bill Monroe, and played bass in Molly O’Day’s [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #49 Jan-Feb 2004
Mac Wiseman – The Singles/Bluegrass Favorites
Mac Wiseman, “The Voice With A Heart”, was inducted into the bluegrass Hall of Honor ten years ago, but he’s been woefully underrepresented on CD, and consequently is probably the least familiar of the Hall’s members to anyone not immersed in the genre and its history. Though they are not without their packaging flaws, these [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Mac, Doc & Del/ Doc & Merle Watson – Home Sweet Home
Among traditional American country blues singers and guitar players, Doc Watson is without peer. When he sings in his unadorned baritone, it is as if the entire Anglo-Saxon folk tradition had been fermented in the Appalachian Mountains only to be channeled through him. Doc has been recorded and honored more than just about anyone else [...]
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