Pat MacDonald (musician)
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Pat MacDonald | |
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![]() Melaniejane and Pat MacDonald taken 2009 at Davey's Uptown in Kansas City. | |
Background information | |
Born | Green Bay, Wisconsin | August 6, 1952
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
Years active | 1984–present |
Patrick Lee "Pat" MacDonald (born August 6, 1952) is an American musician and songwriter. He is the singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for Timbuk3, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987. He formed the duo with his wife, Barbara K. MacDonald, in Madison, Wisconsin in 1984 before moving to Austin, Texas, that same year. Their breakup in 1995 spurred a solo career that has steadily produced releases in both Europe and the US. "MacDonald is long known for his playful, edgy songs," says Guitar Player Magazine (May 2007, p. 38).
Recording career
Songwriting credits include collaborations with Cher, Keith Urban, Imogen Heap, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Peter Frampton, and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Songs he's written or co-written have been recorded by Aerosmith, Oysterhead, Cher, Jools Holland, Billy Ray Cyrus, Night Ranger, Zucchero and others, and have appeared in movies from the controversial horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) with Dennis Hopper, to Tommy Boy (1995) starring Chris Farley.
MacDonald and his friend and collaborator, Eric McFadden, record and perform as the gothic-country duo The Legendary Sons of Crack Daniels. He is currently performing and touring as Purgatory Hill with Milwaukee singer and songwriter melaniejane.
In 2005, he co-founded Steel Bridge Songfest, an annual not-for-profit benefit concert and songwriting festival held in his current hometown of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
Solo album discography
- Pat MacDonald Sleeps With His Guitar (Ark 21), (1997)
- Begging Her Graces (Ulftone), (1999)
- Degrees Of Gone (Ulftone), (2001)
- Strange Love: PM Does DM (Ulftone), (2003)
- In The Red Room (DarkPresents), (2004)
- Troubadour of Stomp (Broken Halo), (2007)
- In The Red Room re-release (SB United) (2008)
- Purgatory Hill self-release (2009)
References
- Decca & Philips international catalogue, 'Pavarotti & Friends for the children of Bosnia/For War Child'[permanent dead link]
- Ferber, Lawrence 2000, 'Unbelievable: Catching up with Cher as she releases one album online and prepares for the follow-up to "Believe"', Frontiers Magazine
- Gilbertson, Jon 2008, 'Troubadour of stomp'[permanent dead link], Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online
- Huyck, Ed 2007, 'Answering a friend's call', Door County Magazine Online
- Isthmus 2007, 'Sons of Crack Daniels, Jane Wiedlin with Whore du Jour, Chris Aaron, Screamin' Cyn Cyn & the Pons, Skintones'
- Moore, Andy 2007, 'Stomping The Chords of Fame', No Depression, no. 67, 20–21.
- Prasad, Anil 2004, 'Fresh Horizons', Innerviews.org
- Prasad, Anil 2007, 'Pat MacDonald', Guitar Player Magazine
- O'Reilly, Ned 2005, 'Pat MacDonald live review', Lumino Magazine
- The Night Eagle Cafe, 'Pat Macdonald', Binghamton, NY.
- Thomas, Elizabeth, 'Timbuk 3', eNotes.com
External links
- 1952 births
- Living people
- American male singers
- American singers
- American rock guitarists
- American male guitarists
- Musicians from Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Musicians from Madison, Wisconsin
- American new wave musicians
- People from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
- 20th-century American guitarists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- Timbuk3 members