Noel McKay (from the album You Only Live Always

Noel McKay (from the album You Only Live Always

Noel McKay (from the album You Only Live Always available on McKay Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
With the count of ‘1,2,3’ Noel McKay launches into “53”, all the numbers adding up to a tune that tracks age through a lifetime. The cut begins the song cycle for You Only Live Always, the recent release from Noel McKay. The songwriter is a story teller. Over a melody channeling Old West saloon pianny players, Noel introduces “The Ballad of Tombstone Parker” as he relocates to a salesmen-filled local lounge to introduce “The Motel King”, and heads off-planet in “Interstellar Rescue Service”. Noel McKay sees himself in the stories, recalling that ‘this record is me reckoning with mortality and infinity, not so much as it applies to popular spirituality but instead, the infinite nature of the cosmos and the indestructible nature of matter itself. These are the very building blocks of life and death. I hope you find some comfort or at least amusement from it’.
 
A late-night Samba noir spins around the dance floor in the title track as You Only Live Always follows a wriggling bass line as it poses the questions “Are You Still Taking Them Pills” and quiets to a simple acoustic guitar for “An Old Cowboy in Spain”. Noel McKay becomes the wise man with a guitar as he weighs in on “The Impermanence of Things” and “A World Without Humans” putting down his pen to cover Billy Joel in “Always a Woman”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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