Gunslinger outstanding country band according to the prestigious Motor City Music Awards, an annual event recognizing the best in Motown, (Detroit, Michigan) presented by the Motor City music Awards Foundation.
An award winning, Premiere Seven piece (lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, piano, steel, drums) country band from Motor City? You bet!
Gunslinger’s musical style is honest, simple traditional country! It is flavored in Blues with the inspirational energy of Southern Gospel and the smoothness of Western Swing, cooked up at the right tempo!
The base members of this talented group are Randy Mac and Fate Dotson.
Mac as a studio and road musician, songwriter and singer. Dotson as a lead singer, musician and songwriter, they take back seat to no one, in Motor City or…Music City they have paid their dues and earned respected positions in the business of music and song.
Lead Guitarist and Utility Man RANDY MAC: born of Native American Decent (Cherokee) in Carbon Hill, Alabama now residing in Warren, Michigan. Mac’s career influences are many and varied; his childhood was filled with Native American and gospel music and songs. Sunday gatherings in Carbon Hill on the farm of “big momma and big daddy” as his grandparents were affectionately called. Big momma played piano, while big daddy wailed on the harp (harmonica). Randy’s father, one of a family of nine played lap steel and the rest played piano, fiddle and guitar.
Randy’s hunger for music carried him into the rock, Rhythm and blues of Motown ! His first paying job was at the age of twelve with a bang called Little Joe and the Sensations. They were booked to play at a Knights of Columbus Hall teen dance, Lincoln Park, Michigan. At fourteen Randy’s band managed by his father, inked a record deal with the Motown people.
At sixteen, Randy moved from Motown to MGM Records and that deal lasted until other members decided to go with John Mellencamp, the fabulous Thunderbirds and Mitch Rider. Randy then was recruited to play for the British group known as Jerry and The Pacemakers. He was unable to accept this lucrative offer: parental concern stepped in saying, “School first—Career later”
Randy, unflapped by the happenings, formed another band called Mac Flak and worked six nights a week at a popular Dearborn, Michigan Nightclub.
During this same period, he hosted Saturday Night Rock, a live television show on NBC airing after The Johnny Carson show
Again, Randy was offered a record deal, this time with Capricorn Records.
Randy Mac is an accomplished utility, studio and road musician, playing lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, slide guitar, dobro, mandolin, piano, and banjo. Randy is also a singer, songwriter and a very successful writer of jingles.
Randy has made live appearances with a veritable “Who’s Who” of country, pop, rock and R&B music including: Joe Walsh, The Who, Bob Seger, Redbone, David Ruffin, Martina McBride, Darron Norwood, Sammy Kershaw, Shenandoah, just to name a few.
Randy has recorded on thirty plus albums as well as more than fifty singles. Spanning all genres’s of music. Also Notable credits include: windsong song records Danny Spannos, M.G.M records Ice Cream Social. At the age of thirteen recorded a single with a Motown affiliate Mutt records which has now been released on a compilation album distributed by Roxy Music called “ Mayhem and Hysteria “. That has been released around the world at least 5 times over the last twenty plus years. The last one is now called a collector’s edition.
At the age of seven, his father promised hind his own guitar if he would learn to play by ear. Determined to learn, he started teaching himself standard finger cords on his fathers Dobro guitar) finger cords on a Dobro?). A Randy Mac favorite career highpoint happened at age sixteen, he performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the Roostertail Club in Detroit. Randy Mac’s music tree has many limbs: Tribal, Country, Gospel, Rock, and Classical but the Alabama county roots remain strongly implanted. His writing reflects that side of him,
Introducing Randy Mac lead guitarist, vocalist, backup vocalist, leader and group spokesperson for the group “GUNSLINGER”
Lead singer and rhythm guitarist FATE DOTSON Jr.: born in Pikeville, Kentucky. Fate’s current residence is Lincoln Park, Michigan. Career influences; first and foremost, his father who was a well known Bluegrass singer and guitar picker, second to his father, one of the greatest voices in country music, Vern Gosdin. Fate earned his first music money as a 14-year old singer and guitarist at a church gathering in his childhood home of Pikeville.
Fate from his Kentucky home to the road and music venues across the country became Fates proving ground. Another side of this entertainer’s talent is numerous credits in the field of radio and television commercials. The latest success of Fate Dotson, Gunslinger’s Lead Singer and Acoustic Guitarist, are his songwriting skills having co- written with Mac seven of the eleven songs on Gunslinger’s premiere album “Kickin It Up” on Dynasty Records.
Fate has performed across the country honing his vocal talents in honky tonks as well as on concert stages singing bluegrass, rock and country that it has made him one of country’s most distinctive and premiere voices in country music today.
Fate has shared the stage with to name a few: Sammy Kershaw, Martina McBride, Vince Neil, Lonestar, Jeff Carson and Travis Tritt.
The collaboration between Mac and Dotson is one that music fans cannot resist so hold on because Gunslinger is “ Kickin’ it up “.
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