***BACK IN PRINT!!! Instrumental collaboration between these polymath Chicago-based guitarists falls somewhere between RYLEY WALKER's acclaimed new album, Primrose Green (Dead Oceans), & BILL MACKAY's highly melodic work in DARTS & ARROWS. Songs run the gamut from fingerstyle ballads to psychedelic waltzes & raga-inspired blues. Recorded live during the last two shows of a January 2015 residency at The Whistler.
LP $24.65
09/26/2025
***Drag City presents the second volume of BILL MACKAY and RILEY WALKER's inspired collaboration. It’s been nearly two years since their much-admired 2015 debut, Land of Plenty (Whistler Records), and SpiderBeetleBee more than makes up for lost time with rich, resonant performances that elevate the sound of the guitar duo as they work with an ever-widening panorama of styles. SpiderBeetleBee radiates forth with equal parts austerity and whimsy, opening with an almost-baroque dance before giving way to a Celtic theme, both featuring MacKay and Walker’s acoustics in rambling conversation, picking through intricate passages as though they were exchanges, thoughts and afterthoughts. Adorned with Bill MacKay’s colorful and wilfully primitive cover-art, SpiderBeetleBee wanders through styles, landmasses and hemispheres, capturing the further adventures of MacKay and Walker with spellbinding snapshots that only bloom larger the longer you take them in. (STREET DATE - 10/20/2017)
LP $21.95
10/20/2017
CD $13.75
10/20/2017
MC $10.50
10/20/2017