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I've Been Building

by Old Kerry McKee

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I've Been Building 04:10
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I've been building on a house these past years can not imagine what I got myself into We signed the papers and that old hovel was ours I quit my job for the love Yes, I quit my work for our love and we were the happiest couple that following night But I felt weak as I picked those dying strings the passion and glow were gone with the winds So long to the past but memorable years Damn that good old house of ours all the cigarettes, laughs and boxes of wine It made me see a part I didn't know anything about Life dramatically changed the following year I knew it when I had to blow the dust of those strings All the words and rhythms seemed to have dissapeared Sleet and pain among choices in vain Pure but obscure love were boiling from within: from the depth of my heart, it almost tore me apart I felt weak for so long, but the trials made me strong two damn fools too make it through this life
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Go East and West 04:08
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Old Kerry McKee is the missing link... no wait, let's rephrase that: He's the link that should not be between old folk, blues and black metal. Forged in punk and metal, but forever steeped in the gritty, crooked and idiosyncratic blues-gone-horrid that is so evident in his music. At the same time it's gut-wrenchingly beautiful, dynamic and without a doubt soulful to the max.

Old Kerry Mckee is a one-man-band based in rural Sweden, in the outskirts of the village Larv. He started out as a death-metal musician but eventually replaced band members with acoustic guitar, home-built drums and an old record player. OKM blends the contemporary with the past into his own peculiar compound that transpires genres such as country, metal, folk, and punk. His music has been described as melancholic and with nasal howlings and dark lyrics he battles subjects like poverty, humanism & psychedelia.

When this exquisite spectrum of sound and emotion is performed live we experience something best described as a collision of natural elements, conducted by a guy who wears his heart on his distressed sleeve, cutting it open for everyone to see inside.

Old Kerry McKee says the new single 'I've Been Building is about " how the music was put aside for him, in order to build on and renovate a house and try other roads, but also the longing after music and how he got back to it"

A new era begins...
Ever since the initial beginnings of Old Kerry McKee, the acoustic guitar has always been the companion closest to heart, faithful, proudly represented and also the most evident part of the creative process. And so, after many years, guitars, experiments and curses, it has fulfilled its role and is now to be succeeded by the electric guitar. This, accompanied by the ever present vinyl player and a new found friend, the cassette recorder, a new sound is slowly taking its shape with the new album. More obscure old vinyls and self constructed sound effects in a grumbling mass will continue to be a big part of the new music, and so as something old is buried, something new is brought to life. Those still standing will be well versed...

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released October 2, 2020

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Old Kerry McKee Vedum, Sweden

Old Kerry Mckee is a one-man-band based in rural Sweden, in the outskirts of the village Larv. He started out as a death- metal musician but eventually replaced band members with acoustic guitar, home-built drums and an old record player. He's the link that should not be between old folk, blues and black metal. ... more

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