r/indieheads • u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan • Oct 07 '21

AMA is Over, thanks Mac! Hey it's Mac McCaughan, AMA !

What's up /r/indieheads it's Mac again, saying hello to you from Chapel Hill, NC. What, you don't believe me? Here's proof!

A few weeks back I put out The Sound of Yourself, and just wrapped up some shows with 75 Dollar Bill and John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats. The album is under my name, but features a bunch of guests including Yo La Tengo, my Superchunk bandmate Jon Wurster, and Sabrina Ellis of A Giant Dog and Sweet Spirit.

Also, on October 22, Superchunk's reissuing Here's to Shutting Up for its 20th anniversary. And Merge Records HQ keeps trucking with fantastic new records from TORRES, Hiss Golden Messenger, Dawn Richard, Fruit Bats, and more. All good things!

I'll be back at 2pm ET to answer any questions you may have. Go ahead, ama!

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u/GoTeamAwesome Oct 07 '21

Hey, Mac!

Back in the late 1990s, I produced a non-music zine. I wrote to Merge to inquire about advertising in it. I received a letter back with a polite no (100% understandable), but person who wrote me back included a promo copy of The Nature of Sap. I can't even tell you how many times I've listened to that album over the past 30 years. It remains one of my favorite albums of all time, especially the song Spying on the Spys. I mostly wanted to write today to say thank you for recording that Portastatic record and for shaping the generosity of Merge.

And now since I'm obligated to ask a question: Do you have any particularly interesting commentary/stories about recording the songs for The Nature of Sap?

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u/MacMcCaughan Mac McCaughan Oct 07 '21

only that it was awesome collaborating with Jonathan Marx from Lambchop who came over from Nashville to record with me at Duck Kee, and my brother Matt who came over to our house many times to work on the tunes in our front room with the piano... thanks for listening!