Jon Mckiel plays vital guitar rock and bent-string lullabies, equal parts blister-forming-grit and punch-drunk-wistfulness, a system of love, solo, and with comrades-in-peace Jay Crocker (of Joyfultalk/No More Shapes), Sean Dicey (Joyfultalk), and Aaron Mangle (of Cousins). Memorial Ten Count is his 4th album and You’ve Changed Records debut.
Releases
Blog Posts
New Release: Jon Mckiel – Bobby Joe Hope
How do you speak through a stranger? Contain multitudes. And begin to find new kinds of design in accident. True story. In September 2015 Jon bought an old Teac A-2340, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, tapes included. He exchanged a few emails with the online seller while negotiating a deal, but … Read More
Music Video: Jon Mckiel – ‘Unknown Source’
Moving and still footage from locations at the Bay of Fundy near Sackville, New Brunswick. A collage of warm VHS textures intertwined with the sonic and lyrical narratives present in the music. Shot by Andrea Thorne, fall 2016. Here’s a bonus video for the same song, lovingly edited together by Paul Henderson: … Read More
Music Video: Jon Mckiel – ‘Brothers’
“Josephine the river queen is a lot like you and me. She’s lighter now, all lifted up and smoked out from the turning century. She’s a loud mouth baby and don’t you come save me that’s all I’ll ever be.” Please watch this tenderhearted and lovely video for Jon Mckiel’s … Read More
Tour Dates
No shows booked at the moment.