photo: Jelle Wagenaar
The Last Town Chorus:
Megan Hickey - Lapsteel and voice
Nat Guy - Acoustic Guitar
The Last Town Chorus came to be in the spring of 2001 in Brooklyn, New York. After several months of slow-burning hours over old instruments, effects pedals and scrap piles of Megan's lyrics, the sound clicked. The demo was made. Then came shows in New York at the usual downtown and Brooklyn suspects: Knitting Factory, Tonic, Fez, Pete's Candy Store. A full-length album was made in the summer and fall of 2002. Recorded by Greg Hoy, mastered by vet Gene Paul, with help from Tim Kiah on upright bass and Joe McGinty on organ.
Megan Hickey: As a child in Pennyslvania she started small fires in the cul de sac by herself and stared at the dusk-time streetlights with the warm concrete at her back. She enjoyed the white soul of Culture Club records and, later, the soulfully dry world of Joni Mitchell and the soulfully wet aural indulgence of New Wave. Megan writes songs for The Last Town Chorus, and occasionally performs solo.
Nat Guy: This Delaware farm-bred young man enjoys fireside chats, Mountain Cur dogs, and japanese design principles. He is as southernly quiet and well-mannered in person as he is onstage.
Megan is a cancer. So is Nat. The Last Town Chorus lives in Brooklyn, New York and feels canals, flight patterns, subway rumbles and riverbeds.
Music:
The Last Town Chorus
TLTC-001
Price: $10.00
Change Your Mind
Dear City
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1950
Ten Mile
The Ground
Oregon
Little Star
State Fair
Try
Press:
"Moody, warm like old-fashioned lemonade spiked with LSD." - Village Voice
"By the time her first song ended, [Megan Hickey had] completely mesmerized her former hometown crowd with a haunting blend of old-school country sounds and highly processed New Wave sensibilities, at times recalling Jimmy Page, but sexier and not so freaking loud." - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"While too many local bands garner attention through attitude and looks, others, more discreet, fly below the radar. The Last Town Chorus is one of those others. Its music is quiet, and heavy on lap-steel guitar and twilight ambience. Fortunately for us, the listeners, this is a surer way to our hearts than to the cover of a magazine." - Time Out New York
Website:
www.thelasttownchorus.com