Maybe it’s an acquired taste, (it’s a great cd) but I feel like it’s harder to receive anything substantial when I listen to that cd). I just want to discuss issues at hand that peeve the crap out of me regarding the purpose of composed music (I personally feel that this is even more true for his latest CD, Gates of Gnomeria. The guy’s great I’ve already learned and have performed some of his material (which should show that I respect Andy a great deal), and I really envy the guy’s tone, dynamic/timbre control, and overall finesse about his instrument. I want to make it clear that this does NOT discount his ability as a musician/guitarist/composer. Now I’m not going to claim that all of the material on this CD was found this way, as I feel that a lot of emotion can be found in his playing, but I know for a fact that he doesn’t always have a meaning behind his songs one example of this would be Heather’s Song, which he stated that he just wrote it randomly, and later just named it because his sister, Heather, randomly asked him to name it after her. Let’s face it, we all gotta get paid, son. In the academic guitar world, fingerstyle steel-string guitarists generally are known as hokey, mainly because they doodle around until they find something that sounds nice and overly-cheesy, paying no particular heed to the idealized aspects of contrapuntal harmony. But with all these good aspects being analyzed, I want to provide a rebuttal against myself, because no article is perfect without a healthy dose of obnoxiousness (see: The O’ Reilly Factor). Besides citing influences such as Michael Hedges and Tommy Emmanuel, he lists Iron Maiden, Bjork and Dream Theater as some of his favorites, and it does show through the poppy nuances, the subtle use of heavy power-chording (see “Drifting” for an example), and the very progressive-esque flow of ideas his songs generate. Saturday, Juanita’s, 13th and Main streets, Little Rock Tickets: $12 advance, $15 day of show (all ages) (501) 374-3271, juanitas.I wanna just start this off by saying that Andy McKee sucks at life! (Mainly because he’s a Obama supporter…heh) Now, with all trolling being said, this is a great CD, complete with enough fingerstyle technique to shoot fireworks out of your computer speakers and lightning from your body’s orifices.Īndy McKee isn’t your ordinary fingerstyle guitarist. “We are doing two different rhythms.”Andy McKee Opening act: Johnny Dickinson 9 p.m. “For those of us who use tapping, it’s almost more like piano or drums,” he says. “I was listening to Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera, andthen when I moved over to acoustic, I was listening to Michael Hedges and Preston Reed.” A devotee of tapping the guitar while also excelling at fingerstyle technique, McKee has heard of former Little Rock guitarist Richard Leo Johnson, another master of tapping his instrument. “I started off more interested in electric guitar,” McKee confesses. The late Michael Hedges further inspired him. Razor & Tie Records, a major recording label, also home to musicians Dar Williams, Joan Baez, Brian McKnight, Hill Country Revue, The Irish Tenors, Michael Mc-Donald, Zappa Plays Zappa and Simply Red, released the album.Ī sticker on the album, which includes a bonus DVD that contains live performances and instructional segments, indicates McKee’s YouTube videos have garnered “78 million plays.”Īs a teenager, McKee first decided to take up guitar after hearing Eric Johnson play guitar on the radio. He mostly performs originals,with a smattering of cover songs, such as Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” on his latest CD, Joyland, named after a defunct amusementpark in Topeka. Still based in his hometown of Topeka, Kan., McKee has built his career as an instrumentalist, which to him means not having to explain lyrical matters. He has also recorded with 6 String Theory, which also featured B.B.
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McKee, who released his debut recording in 2001, has gone on to release five more albums, performs more than 200 shows a year and was featured on Josh Groban’s Christmas album, Noel.
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We had 20 orders the day after we became the talk of You-Tube.” “At the time I was giving guitar lessons and selling some sheet music.
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It helps when calling clubs and telling them what I’m all about. “Success there certainly has been a help,” McKee says with a laugh when reached on the road. LITTLE ROCK No one has to persuade acoustic guitarist Andy McKee about the power of the so-called “social media.” McKee, who will be performing Saturday at Juanita’s, put up some of his videos on YouTube in 2005, more or less as a lark, and watched in awe as the video for his song “Drifting” soared to the front page of the Internet video site.