Bill Mackay
Esker (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Bill MacKay is a musician and a musician's friend - a genial guitarist / composer / improviser based in Chicago who has energized the experimental folk, rock and avant scenes around town with his polyglot approach to the guitar, combining the folk of... |
Bill Mackay
Locust Land (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 24/May/2024 ] Rolling and tumbling in his own sweet way, guitarist Bill MacKay discovers a territory all his own: Locust Land. New vistas abound: Bill adds a measure of keyboard playing to his picking mastery, sings a few more, and, a devout and ceaseless... |
Bill MacKay And Katinka Kleijn
Stir (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 6/Dec/2019 ] The combustive guitar/cello chemistry of MacKay and Kleijn is drawn from avant-rock, classical and experimental inspirations, forged through years of live performance. The freedom-cum-new traditionalism Bill played with on Fountain Fire and his... |
Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker
Spiderbeetlebee [ CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] In 2015, intrepid guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker issued their first album of guitar duets, Land of Plenty, after developing their mutual dialogue over a monthlong residency at Chicago's Whistler. Two years later, SpiderBeetleBee reveals... |
Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker
Spiderbeetlebee (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 8/Dec/2017 ] Shared joy and acoustics in rambling conversation, as two friends travel the continents via high-road, short-cut and their own paths, yet untravelled. Picking in the tradition, Walker and MacKay summon drafts of slide blues, baroque dance,... |
Bill Mackay
Esker [ Drag City / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] |
Bill Mackay
Fountain Fire [ Drag City / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Fountain Fire is Bill MacKay's second solo album on Drag City. The Chicago-based guitarist's continued sonic journeys in conversation with himself follow a travel-worn map written in his own hand. Bill has followed the trail from familiar confines... |
Bill MacKay
Fountain Fire (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Fountain Fire is Bill MacKay's second solo album on Drag City. The Chicago-based guitarist's continued sonic journeys in conversation with himself follow a travel-worn map written in his own hand. Bill has followed the trail from familiar confines... |
Bill Mackay And Katinka Kleijn
Stir [ Drag City / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] The combustive guitar/cello chemistry of MacKay and Kleijn is drawn from avant-rock, classical and experimental inspirations, forged through years of live performance. The freedom-cum-new traditionalism Bill played with on Fountain Fire and his... |
Bill Mackay And Nathan Bowles
Keys [ Drag City / LP - released 17/Sep/2021 ] With Keys, Bill and Nathan drive their folk contraption with intent and feeling, joy and solemnity. Images of wariness, wonder, anger, deliberation, forgiveness, trust, and devotion roll it forward into the unknown, a destination we can sense both... |