This morning’s CarTune is “Mustang Sally,” penned by Detroit’s own Mack Rice and performed here by living blues legend Buddy Guy. Photo by Christian Lantry  

Sir Mack was born in 1933 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, but came north to the Motor City with his family as a teenager. His group, the Falcons, which included Joe Stubbs, Eddie Floyd, and Wilson Pickett, is best known for the timeless 1959 hit, “You’re so Fine.”

Mack scored his first hit record as a solo artist with “Mustang Sally” in 1965, but it was his old bandmate Pickett, of course, who made the song his own. “Sally” has also become a signature song for Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, the grand master of the Stratocaster. Naturally, Guy’s reading is pure electric funk. Check it out.

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