This week I am excited to share a collaboration with photographer, avid runner, and pedal steel ringer, Bill McCullough! Bill is an amazing photographer based in Austin whose street work I have admired for years. We met courtesy through the Artist Run Club when the group visited the studio he and his wife Meredith Miller, an accomplished printmaker and book artist share. Bill has also played pedal steel with the lauded Austin band, Knife in the Water for going on 20 years.

We met on Bill’s porch and played for a long time. What a joy! This piece is a kind of supercut of a small portion of what was a pursuit of pure pleasure. Bill shot the images and I put them in a code blender. I love how the cat fits perfectly into the shape made by the cactus.

TRACK LIST

no.220 |Cat in the Cactus and the Pedal Steel, November 20, 2023, Austin, Texas

no.103 | Cicada Serenade, June 22, 2020, Austin, Texas

no.122 | Furniture of Crickets, December 9, 2020, Austin, Texas

no.131 | Shimmers Before the Storm, March 5, 2020, University Camp, Wimberley, TX

no.145 | Lightburn and Wood, June 30, 2021, Wild Bill Lake, Montana

no.178 | Sweet Sweet Springs, June 29, 2022, Barton Springs Pool, Austin, TX

LINKS

Porch Swing Orchestra Website: https://porchswingorchestra.org/

Porch Swing Orchestra YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PorchSwingOrchestra

Porch Swing Orchestra on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5veNpAdzFR1sJmmBcX1AuJ?si=tw8IxeF7TNCG8seYndXg5w

Porch Swing Orchestra on Bandcamp: https://sunsetcommission.bandcamp.com/

Bill McCullough: https://billmccullough.com

Charles Wood Photographs: https://www.instagram.com/mountainsinstars/

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