SHIPPING PAUSE: Due to a warehouse move, we are pausing shipment on all orders placed after December 9th. Orders will not resume shipping until March 31st, 2023. Any orders which include preorder items will be held to ship until all items are in stock, unless separate shipments are selected at checkout.

McKay

Into You

LION LP-142
Release Notes

•All-analogue pressing, cut directly from the original master tapes

•Licensed from Ray Pierle with his full cooperation and support

•Updated liner notes and exactly-transcribed lyrics

One of the “holy grails” of Indianapolis private-pressdom (surpassed only by Zerfas and Anonymous) available again in its original format! Ray “McKay” Pierle and his musically-adept brothers and friends partied, jammed and partied some more on Indy’s south side throughout the mid-70’s, forming a band (Loos) which managed to garner zero media attention at the time. However, Ray’s trusty Teac four-track was always close at hand and countless hours of home recordings were induced onto magnetic tape, as well as a few songs laid down at a local studio. After a brief hiatus, the core members reconvened as McKay, and created their sole document, the 300-press “Into You” album (1978); the LP was given to friends and family and consigned in nearby record shoppes. A mere 15 years had to pass before the collecting world discovered the highly-personal songwriting, tight playing, and not-so-well-hidden West-Coast stylistic touches. A vinyl reissue was locally produced back then but it’s long gone, so here’s a new all analogue, master tape edition for a new generation to savor.