While at university, Keegan McInroe began playing music in local bars, and in 2003, he helped found the rock-and-roll band Catfish Whiskey. The band called it quits in 2009.
A professional musician since 2006, McInroe now troubadours primarily as a solo artist. Since 2012, he spends about half of each year playing everything from house concerts to music festivals all across Europe, and splitting his time back home in the States between Fort Worth, Dublin (Texas), and the road.
His music weaves threads from old country, old blues and folk together with his own unique voice and perspective, creating an original tapestry of American roots music, earthy and lyric-driven.
McInroe has shared the stage with Leon Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Willis Alan Ramsey, Carolyn Wonderland, Phosphorescent, Ian Moore, Innes Sibun, Eric McFadden, Otis Taylor, Sam Baker, Randall Bramblett, The Band of Heathens, and others.
He has also been published in various papers and magazines for his travel writing, stories, poems, and occasional forays into politics.
Today Glide is excited to premiere the animated video for McInroe’s playfully profane tune “Bastards & Bitches”. Coming in at just over a minute, this quick little country ditty is a simply strummed tune that lambasts the assholes in power in this country. Using a truly impressive array of dirty words, McInroe sings in a way that feels laid back and friendly while skewering the establishment with the kind of blunt language we all feel increasingly drawn towards.
McInroe describes the inspiration behind the song in his own words:
“’Bastards & Bitches’ is a not-so-subtle middle-finger to the orgy of disingenuous men and women of power in government, business, banking, and other influential institutions and organizations who, despite their usual lip service to the contrary, actively work together against the interests of the public to ensure their own furthered ambitions, agendas, and financial prospects.
I was fortunate to be able to team up (again) with Croatian animator, Undertoon, whose knack for lurid illustration and dark humor lent itself so perfectly to this project.”
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Photo credit: Mirko Glaser
