Pat MacDonald - The Ragged Jagged Way Back Home (2019)

I made this from scratch last summer when, after a long dry spell, the first song wrote itself. I'd been building a little studio in a storage closet in the Tambourine Lounge, hoping to get inspired. The "Boom Clozet" contained, among other things, my brother Bill's beloved old Gibson, which i believe is inhabited by at least a fragment of his soul. Despite my recovering muscles (after two years of chemo) the instrument was surprisingly easy to play. This album sprang from that spirited gadget.

Other tools i used were the "Drone Thing" from Electro Faustus, a stripped down Gibson SG (Bill's other guitar), a sunburst Epiphone from the Sturgeon Bay Music Exchange, strung with all high strings ("Nashville tuning"), plus a few odd items.

I call this a Chronological Record because the songs were written & recorded in the order they appear.