Bill MacKay - Locust Land
BILL MACKAY
“Locust Land”
(Drag City)
A masterful collaborator, Chicago guitarist Bill MacKay combines his far-ranging influences into an impressive collection whose natural, affable nature shine in diverse journeys through overlapping genres. Stoked in backroad folk and ghostly post-rock ambience, “Locust,” goes from train-whistle mystery snaking around slide-guitar cries to Middle Eastern teases permeating carbonated jams for an intuitive looseness where songs and instrumentals melt into supple couplings guided by indivisible kismet. Whether hushed singing or subtle playing, MacKay’s accomplished accommodating pairs musical inclusiveness to shapeshifting ingenuity, a voice in the wilderness hiding in plain sight.