Keys by Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles
Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise as a formal songwriting and arranging tool. Spirited 21st century folk music made of equal parts bluegrass, classical, country, gospel and improv.
Tracklist
| 1. | Idumea | 3:56 |
| 2. | Honey Time | 3:09 |
| 3. | Late For Your Funeral Again | 3:10 |
| 4. | Dry Rations II | 1:49 |
| 5. | Joy Ride | 5:10 |
| 6. | I See God | 2:27 |
| 7. | Dry Rations I | 2:51 |
| 8. | Dowsing | 5:03 |
| 9. | Truth | 5:37 |
| 10. | The i in Silence | 4:11 |
Credits
released April 9, 2021
Recorded and engineered by Nick Broste at the Shape Shoppe, Chicago.
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, Chicago
Recorded and engineered by Nick Broste at the Shape Shoppe, Chicago.
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, Chicago
License
All rights reserved.
"Bowles has the power to transform the sound of a banjo–and folk music–into something transcendental...something boundless and new" – Pitchfork
"Like Coltrane, Bowles tears open a tiny piece of fabric in the folk music continuum to let in the cosmic debris" – NPR Music
"Fluidly melodic digressions and pungent dissonances generate a forward momentum and haunted atmosphere" – The Wire