Big Mack (or Mac) – who may have been an Arkansas truck driver or the better known blues singer Willie McNeal – had a surprise hit with “Rough Dried Woman” in 1966. This raw, crude even, blues was produced by Chicago record man who added Mack’s screaming uninhibited vocal to a instrumental track he had in the can. When Clay leased it to it was a huge regional seller in the south and even made it to the national charts. Lewis put out a follow up, the excellent double sided “Bad Affair” and “That’s The Way You Treat Your Woman” which were considerably more sophisticated than the hit but lacked the novelty to make it a big seller, despite another uncompromising vocal from Mack.
