Birth name Victor Macoggi Years active 1981–present Record label Various | Genre Blues Albums Boogie All Night | |
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Occupation(s) Guitarist, harmonicist, singer Instruments Guitar, harmonica, human voice Similar Louisiana Red, Harpdog Brown, Bob Corritore, Lynwood Slim, Byther Smith | ||
Victor Mac (born Victor Macoggi on January 31, 1967) who is better known as Little Victor and also The Beale Street Blues Bopper, is an American blues and roots musician and record producer. He is a singer-songwriter that plays guitar and harmonica. He is best known for his association with Louisiana Red, on the albums Back To The Black Bayou and Memphis Mojo.
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Biography
Born in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States, and the son of an American serviceman who was constantly on the move, Victor also leads a wanderer's life on both sides of the Atlantic. He grew up in many different places. He lived in Austin, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee, and Louisiana. He also spent several years in Italy, France Germany and Spain, before moving to the UK in 2014. He started to sing at the age of 14 - in 1981 - hence the nickname of "Little" Victor. His first band mostly featured songs from the Sun Records vaults. At 16 he started to play harmonica inspired by Jimmy Reed and the following year first picked up the guitar. He played for tips on Beale Street in Memphis six days a week with his uncle Ben Perry, the "King of Handy Park." This association is why Little Victor is also known as The Beale Street Blues Bopper. He sang, played and recorded with many different roots, rock and blues bands in the 1980s and early 1990s. He also did some recordings with Alex Chilton and Hubert Sumlin, before releasing Cuttin' Out (1994). In 1999, Little Victor was involved in the production of a film documentary on R.L. Burnside entitled, A Day with...R.L. Burnside, a collaboration with Sophie Kay which also spawned two albums together.
His association with his blues hero Louisiana Red, produced the albums Back To The Black Bayou (2009) and Memphis Mojo (2011). Victor's own effort, Boogie All Night, was issued by El Toro Records, in between those collaborations, whilst in 2013 he produced and played on Pig Fat's Shadow of the Night. In 2015, Little Victor toured Canada with the harmonica player Harpdog Brown and, in 2016, he produced and played on Brown's Travelin' with the Blues recorded in California with Charlie Musselwhite, Big Jon Atkinson, Rusty Zinn, Carl Sonny Leyland and Jimmy Morello.
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Awards
Songs
Papa Lou And Gran2009
Boogie All NiteBoogie All Night · 2011
I'm Gonna Let You GoBoogie All Night · 2011