Bill MacKay

Featuring three of Chicago’s biggest hitters – Douglas McCombs, Bill MacKay & Charles Rumback – Black Duck is a dynamic, experimental set of instrumentals that oozes the kind of confidence you would hope for from such a power trio.

Our Tune of the Day is ‘Second Guess’, the latest single from Chicago trio Black Duck, featuring Douglas McCombs, Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback. It’s taken from their self-titled debut album, out on June 23rd via Thrill Jockey.

Bill Mackay and Nathan Bowles ‘Keys’ was an album we were excited about and it delivers at every turn. An engaging album with a glorious set of instrumentals and sang numbers. Plus new video ‘Dowsing’.

Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles offer us a further gem from their forthcoming ‘Keys’ as they dip into the Country gospel songbook of E.C. and Orna Ball of Rugby, VA for their latest single.

Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles announce new album ‘Keys’ and share video for lead track ‘Joy Ride’…a continually evolving tune, innovative and carefree, that offers the listener both cinematic and pinhole perspectives.

Stir displays the creativity and versatility of Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn, who use just the cello and guitar to form such an artistically and emotionally broad-reaching canvas.

Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn both defy the traditional definition of a guitarist/cellist so news of a collaborative album called STIR, partially inspired by Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf, will send welcome ripples across the lake…check out their video for the album opener, Hermine.

Chicago-based guitarist Bill MacKay returns on 22nd March with Fountain Fire, his most expansive and forceful music to date. Watch Pre-California, lead single and Song of the Day.

Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker have a sonic connection that some duos only dream of. Watch their latest video for Lonesome Traveler (from their forthcoming album SpiderBeetleBee), it expresses a touch of surrealism that merges the ethereal, the old cinema, and the dark reality of destruction together.

Bill MacKay is a highly-regarded guitarist-composer-improviser based in Chicago, watch his latest video Powder Mill Park from his latest album Esker which is out now on Drag City Records.