View basket “Rural Free Delivery” has been added to your basket. SpiderBeetleBee Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker SKU: DC688 Barcode: 781484068815 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City Released Date: 17th October 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Drag City presents the second volume of Bill MacKay and Ryley 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. Their first album was developed over a month-long live residency at Chicago bar The Whistler and reflected MacKay and Walker’s shared joy in a new relationship with a kindred spirit, in playing that might wordlessly finish a phrase or suggest a direction, as they spoke through their guitars. ‘SpiderBeetleBee’ continues fluidly down the path of their initial psych-folk-blues-raga tandem, brewing further explorations in mixed-and-matched idioms, turning composed melodies inside-out via improvisation and finding in the blend a shared Walker / MacKay pasture, serendipitously found somewhere between Appalachia and the Highlands. ‘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. The second of these, ‘Pretty Weeds Revisited’, is enhanced by sonorous statements from Dutch cellist Katinka Kleijn (a veteran of the CSO), showing a deep, instinctive feel for the Walker / MacKay sound. The album then takes an unexpected turn at midpoint, slowly melting down and drifting soulfully through the expansive space of ‘Naturita’. ‘I Heard Them Singing’ picks up the tempo with the aid of MacKay’s requinto (a kind of 5-string Mexican guitar), Walker’s rolling chords and the percolating tabla of Ryan Jewell, suggesting a hitherto unknown short-cut from Brazil to India. Drafts of slide guitar and bittersweet blues evocation illumine further fruitful travels before ‘Dragonfly’, also featuring Ms. Kleijn’s haunting cello, closes the cycle with a flourish. Adorned with Bill MacKay’s colourful 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. Artist Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker Genre Folk Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings The Grand Old Trout Pretty Weeds Revisited Lower Chestnut Naturita I Heard Them Singing Stretching My Dollar In Plano Lonesome Traveler Dragonfly Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker and more from Folk View Product Quick View Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker Land Of Plenty Rock And Pop | Whistler | 1LP Released 30th October 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker Land Of Plenty £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Whistler SKU: WSLR022LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alasdair Roberts Grief in The Kitchen and Mirth in The Hall Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 31st March 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alasdair Roberts Grief in The Kitchen and Mirth in The Hall £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC862 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lau Decade (The Best Of 2007-2017) Folk | Lau Scotland | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released 15th June 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lau Decade (The Best Of 2007-2017) £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lau Scotland SKU: LAU2017LPX Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released Date: 15th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emily Barker The Toerag Sessions Folk | Everyone Sang | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 6th April 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emily Barker The Toerag Sessions £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Everyone Sang SKU: ES143LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hollow Coves Wanderlust Folk | Nettwerk | 1LP Released 3rd March 2023 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hollow Coves Wanderlust £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nettwerk SKU: NMG36494 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ashley Hutchings By Gloucester Docks I Sat And Wept Folk | Talking Elephant | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th August 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ashley Hutchings By Gloucester Docks I Sat And Wept £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Talking Elephant SKU: TELP236 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Judy Collins Live In Ireland Folk | Cleopatra Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd June 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Judy Collins Live In Ireland £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cleopatra Records SKU: CLPLP1787 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi Cold Moon Folk | Believe Recordings | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 14th October 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi Cold Moon £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Believe Recordings SKU: BR095 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View William Fitzsimmons Charleroi: Pittsburgh Volume 1 + 2 Folk | Gronland | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 1st April 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders William Fitzsimmons Charleroi: Pittsburgh Volume 1 + 2 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Gronland SKU: LPGRON159 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Birds of Chicago Love In Wartime Folk | Signature Sounds | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 25th May 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Birds of Chicago Love In Wartime £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Signature Sounds SKU: LPSIG7026 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Martin Simpson Trails & Tribulations Folk | Vinyl180 | 2LP Released 1st September 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martin Simpson Trails & Tribulations £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vinyl180 SKU: VIN180LP124 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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