Listen: Scarlet Sun Catchers // Guest Mix by Bill MacKay

In and out of focus in a hallucinogenic haze, Bill’s conversations with himself follow a travel-worn map copied over and over again. The picker journeys sonically from familiar to unknown places, a style suspended between the traditional and the avant-garde, expansive and flowing like boiled-over magma.

We’re proud to welcome a new guest mix contributor into our fold – Chicago guitarist-composer-improviser and Drag City artist Bill MacKay! Bill’s extensive catalog of work features both solo releases and collaborations with the likes of Matt Lux (Isotope 217) and Ryley Walker.

Mix that he compiled for us features both his own work + songs by Wipers, Bowie, Body/Head, Hendrix and many others. Dive in!

Tracklist

Bill Mackay – Aster

Angel Bat Dawid – London

Purple Mountains – All My Happiness is Gone

Bill Callahan – 747

Magik Markers – Crebs

Egbert Gismonti – Ano Zero

Laura Nyro – Gibsom Street

Wipers – Over the Edge

David Bowie – She Shook Me Cold

Aretha Franklin – Gentle on My Mind

Meg Baird / Mary Lattimore – Painter of Tygers

Jorma Kaukonen – Genesis

Bill Mackay – Birds of May

Jaimie Branch – Theme Nothing

Ben LaMar Gay – Melhor Que Tem

Body/Head – The Show is Over

Victor Jara – El Aparecido

Bill Mackay – Arcadia

Miles Davis – Mademoiselle Mabry (Miss Mabry)

Further Reading

Aquarium Drunkard

C-Ville

Third Coast Review

Nashville Scene

Dusted

Magnet Magazine

Tiny Mix Tapes