Review for Internal Frontier Album
All Aboard the train!
John McKay has crafted a potent, compelling and rewarding listening experience with
Internal Frontier. His music is the rich harvest of an open heart, creative vision and serious guitar chops.
Years of observation, reflection, insight and aspiration are conveyed in vivid poetics and, with the warm voice of a gifted storyteller, a stellar ensemble and deftly crafted arrangements, this music draws you in and resonates.
As the band- all stars- perform and compliment like a road tested brotherhood, John's guitar is a force of it's own: killer tone, attitude, melodic invention, and an organic instinct for rhythm. Many colors, but it's all John. Just listen to the solo in 'Phineas Gage'! His guitar smolders through the mix with jam-band abandon. And again, in 'Weddings and Funerals', with harmonic agility and pristine expression, his soloing serves to enhance and illuminate the song's emotion.
We got a way to a better world.
Re-tune our minds to the world beneath us
let a brighter spirit feed us and lead us....
How do we find our way back to what we dreamed?
Do I comprehend this internal frontier?
With refreshing humility, John bares his soul. In "Change Back", as he sings about deep loneliness, asking 'what can I do to change all this? What can I do to strangle this?", he's simultaneously providing his answer: grab his guitar and channel it
into this music. As rocking, enterntaining and well produced as these songs are, they could only come from the heart of a peaceful warrior. This is music that needs to be heard! Rock on, John.
Tor Snyder
John McKay has crafted a potent, compelling and rewarding listening experience with
Internal Frontier. His music is the rich harvest of an open heart, creative vision and serious guitar chops.
Years of observation, reflection, insight and aspiration are conveyed in vivid poetics and, with the warm voice of a gifted storyteller, a stellar ensemble and deftly crafted arrangements, this music draws you in and resonates.
As the band- all stars- perform and compliment like a road tested brotherhood, John's guitar is a force of it's own: killer tone, attitude, melodic invention, and an organic instinct for rhythm. Many colors, but it's all John. Just listen to the solo in 'Phineas Gage'! His guitar smolders through the mix with jam-band abandon. And again, in 'Weddings and Funerals', with harmonic agility and pristine expression, his soloing serves to enhance and illuminate the song's emotion.
We got a way to a better world.
Re-tune our minds to the world beneath us
let a brighter spirit feed us and lead us....
How do we find our way back to what we dreamed?
Do I comprehend this internal frontier?
With refreshing humility, John bares his soul. In "Change Back", as he sings about deep loneliness, asking 'what can I do to change all this? What can I do to strangle this?", he's simultaneously providing his answer: grab his guitar and channel it
into this music. As rocking, enterntaining and well produced as these songs are, they could only come from the heart of a peaceful warrior. This is music that needs to be heard! Rock on, John.
Tor Snyder