Pat MacDonald

I rediscovered a lost, favorite musician this weekend: Pat MacDonald.

I didn't listen to a lot of music in High School.  It cost money, I didn't have any, and I spent a lot of time programming anyway.  During my last semester in the Spring of 1986, though, a cassette tape started circulating, and I got my hands on it for a couple of days.  It was Timbuk 3's Greetings from Timbuk 3.  I had no interest in punk, so in 1986 that was as close to alternative as I got.  It opened up a whole new genera of music with funky beats and charged lyrics.  I was hooked on'em.

During college and graduate school I collected every album Timbuk 3 recorded.  The band broke up 1995, coincidentally the same time I left school and started being a grown-up.  I assumed their music was gone and regularly played their recordings for years and years up to this day.

Several years ago I tried to see what happened to Pat MacDonald and Barbara K, but I could find nothing about MacDonald and just a few bits about Barbara K still active in the Austin music scene.

Now just the other day I tried again and discovered Pat MacDonald has a solo career going.  After some more digging I grabbed all the recordings I could find.  I found Sleeps with His Guitar and in the Red Room at Amazon, got a copy of Troubadour of Stomp from a comic store in Massachusetts, and have both Begging Her Graces and Strange Love: PM does DM coming from ulfTone Music out of Germany.  The only thing I can't find is a copy of Degrees of Gone.

Here are some videos I found on YouTube.  The first is a performance, and the second is an interview.  Check'em out!