Welcome to “The Blue Sun”!
Here’s new music. Original American music the likes of which you haven’t heard before but which will add to your life. Rich, twangy swamp blues with worldclass lyrics. The better stereo the better these songs sound.
Mac McElderry brings you “The Blue Sun” courtesy of his decades of global wandering and minstrelsy and busking with his 12-string dobro.
Click here to order “The Blue Sun” CD for $12 (18 songs, postpaid).
Job number one: get the music out! It’s been hiding under a bushel for way too long. Here’s your first chance to get important new American music. Something like Leadbelly, say. In the vein of Woody. It’s big. It’s connective. When is the last time this happened?
Mac, or Slim, is also a writer and an artist. You know how I love those crossover talents!
Mac created an amazing songbook of over 100 songs and art plus essays on the wandering, loving, radical life fully lived, called “The Blue Sun.” It contains the lyrics of the songs on the CD and many more. Ever wonder what a map of the Blue Sun Coast looks like? (What’s a Blue Sun anyway?) I’ll be reprinting the whole songbook. The original has an amazing silkscreen-printed cover and lovely mimeo interior. I’ll get some of those, too, for the collectors.
Mac is 70+ now and still rocks. This music and art has been passed around underground for years. Suppressed. A white bluesman still isn’t welcomed at Ole’ Miss, where he used to teach, and where he recorded all this. He’ll probably come your way if you like. He lives in a no-electricity barrack in Panacea, Florida, next to Jack Rudloe’s “Gulf Specimen” marine lab. They’ve been best misfit buddies for decades now. Mac: grey, tall, slim, ethereal. Jack: short, tan, round, mercurial. See them stroll together down that old oystershell road to the bay.
