Drag City is pleased to announce the reissue of hypnotic syncretic guitar duo Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker’s 2015 recorded debut, Land of Plenty — just in time for its 10th anniversary! Today, Bill and Ryley share a new music video by Simon Russell for the title track. Land of Plenty returns to vinyl form on September 26. 

Now, who remembers where they were in January 2015? Bill and Ryley don’t need to, they’ve got Land of Plenty to remind ‘em. At their first meeting, they hit it off over mutual influences, like Albert King, Laura Nyro, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Ali Akbar Khan and Jimi Hendrix. A year later, they were loaded into The Whistler in Chicago every single Friday night on the calendar in January 2015 for a residency, not just to entertain, but to record the pool of material they’d woodshedded together in the recent months of their budding collaboration. It was in August of 2015 that Land of Plenty was released, on Whistler Records.

On this release, Bill and Ryley are generally divided up by the left and right channels (a groovy old-school way to have stereo sound that we LOVE), yet their shared headspace is a constant flow of ever-melding play. Listening out for each other as they’re picking, these boys dance together and never land a foot wrong. They are ON. The live capture seems to enhance the sound in all sorts of unpredictable ways that activates with the chemistry in their playing. There are very few acoustic guitar records that hit quite like Land of Plenty; get your own copy of this gorgeous Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker duo recital on September 26, 2025!

Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker 2025 Tour Dates

Aug. 8 - Alberta, Canada @ Edmonton Folk Music Festival
Aug. 9 - Alberta, Canada @ Edmonton Folk Music Festival