sportsbarDrifting - Andy Mckee - Can it get any better than this?
April 26th 2008 10:16
Simply amazing - that is the only way to describe this video and this song...
In late 2006, a live performance of Andy Mckee's flagship song "Drifting" became a Featured Video on YouTube, achieving over 13,000,000 views to date and remaining one of its highest rated music clips. A handful of McKee's other songs have experienced lesser success on YouTube, such as "Rylynn" and "Africa" both eclipsing 5,000,000 views apiece.
Watch and enjoy
You have to love the creativity of this song - yet the techniques used are not the feature of the song funnily enough - they are all there to add to the melody, not just because he can. This is the brilliance of this song and why it is so cool.
It is like watching a movie when the special effects are only used to enhance the story line and are not the story line themselves...
ALBUMS
In 2001, McKee independently released his first album, Nocturne. That same year, he placed third at the National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition in Winfield, Kansas, the youngest competitor to place so highly. In 2003, McKee toured in Taiwan with Jacques Stotzem, Isato Nakagawa, and Masaaki Kishibe, and earned first place in the Miscellaneous Acoustic Instrument contest of the Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships with a Ron Spillers harpguitar he purchased from Stephen Bennett in 2002. The instrument can be seen in a number of his songs, such as "Into The Ocean" and "Gates of Gnomeria".
McKee released his second album, Dreamcatcher, in 2004. The album includes his cover of "Africa" , as well as "The Friend I Never Met", a song written in tribute to the late Michael Hedges. McKee used the title track to win the opportunity to perform with bassist Michael Manring, whom he has toured with multiple times since. Additionally, he placed second in the Fingerstyle Guitar Competition of the Canadian Guitar Festival that year. The album was later re-released by McKee's label in response to the popularity he garnered on YouTube.
McKee's third CD, Art of Motion, was released on Candyrat Records in November 2005 and earned considerable praise from established acoustic guitarists such as Don Ross, whom McKee is currently on the same label with and has noted as one of his favorite artists. Most of the songs that McKee is known for on YouTube appear on the album, which has a handful of tracks carried over from Dreamcatcher as well. During the early stages of McKee's success on YouTube in late 2006 and early 2007, Art of Motion was the only album of his carried by Candyrat Records, and saw the most mainstream exposure as a result.
After his popularity due to his performances on YouTube and touring extensively throughout much of 2007, McKee returned to the studio to record his fourth CD, Gates of Gnomeria. The album contains six new songs, one of which had already been seen on YouTube ("Gates of Gnomeria"), as well as two cover songs. McKee is currently still on tour throughout the world, performing with other Candyrat artists and promoting the new album.
He recently released a split DVD with labelmate Antoine Dufour, each artist contributing eight songs to the disc; two of McKee's are from Gates of Gnomeria. In early 2008, he released a collaborative album with Don Ross entitled The Thing That Came From Somewhere. The CD features two tracks from McKee's song library ("Rylynn" and "Ebon Coast") reworked for two guitars, as well as new takes on some of his solo performances ("Dreamcatcher" and "Ouray").
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I thought I would finish with another video - you can check them all out on Youtube - and no - I will not even attempt to try and tab or teach these songs - He is just on another planet...
Andy Mckee knows no boundaries
In late 2006, a live performance of Andy Mckee's flagship song "Drifting" became a Featured Video on YouTube, achieving over 13,000,000 views to date and remaining one of its highest rated music clips. A handful of McKee's other songs have experienced lesser success on YouTube, such as "Rylynn" and "Africa" both eclipsing 5,000,000 views apiece.
Watch and enjoy
"Drifting"
You have to love the creativity of this song - yet the techniques used are not the feature of the song funnily enough - they are all there to add to the melody, not just because he can. This is the brilliance of this song and why it is so cool.
It is like watching a movie when the special effects are only used to enhance the story line and are not the story line themselves...
ALBUMS
-----Nocturne (2001)-------
-----Dreamcatcher (2004)------
McKee released his second album, Dreamcatcher, in 2004. The album includes his cover of "Africa" , as well as "The Friend I Never Met", a song written in tribute to the late Michael Hedges. McKee used the title track to win the opportunity to perform with bassist Michael Manring, whom he has toured with multiple times since. Additionally, he placed second in the Fingerstyle Guitar Competition of the Canadian Guitar Festival that year. The album was later re-released by McKee's label in response to the popularity he garnered on YouTube.
-----Art of Motion (2005)---------
McKee's third CD, Art of Motion, was released on Candyrat Records in November 2005 and earned considerable praise from established acoustic guitarists such as Don Ross, whom McKee is currently on the same label with and has noted as one of his favorite artists. Most of the songs that McKee is known for on YouTube appear on the album, which has a handful of tracks carried over from Dreamcatcher as well. During the early stages of McKee's success on YouTube in late 2006 and early 2007, Art of Motion was the only album of his carried by Candyrat Records, and saw the most mainstream exposure as a result.
------Gates of Gnomeria (2007)-------
After his popularity due to his performances on YouTube and touring extensively throughout much of 2007, McKee returned to the studio to record his fourth CD, Gates of Gnomeria. The album contains six new songs, one of which had already been seen on YouTube ("Gates of Gnomeria"), as well as two cover songs. McKee is currently still on tour throughout the world, performing with other Candyrat artists and promoting the new album.
He recently released a split DVD with labelmate Antoine Dufour, each artist contributing eight songs to the disc; two of McKee's are from Gates of Gnomeria. In early 2008, he released a collaborative album with Don Ross entitled The Thing That Came From Somewhere. The CD features two tracks from McKee's song library ("Rylynn" and "Ebon Coast") reworked for two guitars, as well as new takes on some of his solo performances ("Dreamcatcher" and "Ouray").
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I thought I would finish with another video - you can check them all out on Youtube - and no - I will not even attempt to try and tab or teach these songs - He is just on another planet...
"Into the Ocean"
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