Steve McCoy

Have you ever seen that scene in the movie, Ping Pong Summer, where Radical Miracle opens a brand new cassette, takes out the cover, lays back on his bed and smells it? 

Yup - very much the same experience for me with cassette and especially vinyl album covers. The first vinyl I bought was Aerosmith Bootleg Live - a double album. My best friend’s big brother had it in 1978. I bought it in 1979. 

I obsessed over every aspect of the album cover while listening endlessly to all 4 sides of vinyl. 

I used to do a lot of flyer, and some album art for my bands in the past so it’s really playing against type on several levels for me to put out an album with no physical copies or cover. 

The reasons for this are several. 

In 2020, manufacturing suffered and I found myself wondering how wise it was in this case or any case anymore to engage in using any resource that required physical manufacturing of any product that could be bought and enjoyed digitally. Also, it costs money to make CD's, let alone vinyl, and I'm on a shoestring budget. Manufacturing also takes time, which I do not have in abundance. There are so many other songs I need to record, I just can't take the time to sweat this...

Just for the record, vinyl sounds really nice to my ear, perhaps better than anything (save 2 inch tape), and I love vinyl album covers better than any other type, yet the decision was made during post production so I stuck  with it. I’m not sure if that will change for Soul in a Cage, however; this will most likely not be the rule for all future releases. 

For now, please visit the “Soul in a Cage” tab to see a digital album cover complete with song info, album credits, “liner” notes and some photos from the time period of the album’s production.

Born out of a continuing battle against glass ceilings superimposed upon us all - this song calls out for elevation. It is the process of attaining higher ground.

Overcoming Adversity combines rock, metal and alternative stylings of the mid 80's and launches them forward to propel a powerful and triumphant mantra.

Coming in at just under 4 minutes, this song is the departure point from which the album, Soul in a Cage embarks upon its journey.

Due to start appearing on all digital platforms on May 4th, you can pre-save this single on Spotify now by following this link

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/stevemccoy1/overcoming-adversity

Stuff Soon!! 'Nuff Said!!

Date of release: before Summer - more details to come 

Soul in a Cage is 13 tracks, stylistically all over the map with Steve’s musical tastes blended together and spit out in every direction. “I knew I was going to record an album, but as life disintegrated and I became aware of the musical continuum through it all, I could see clearly the songs that had come out of that period that were moving together and developing as a group. By the time I finished writing the title track it all came together. I knew what was going to be on there.” 

A veteran of the Las Vegas music scene  on and off for the past 30 years, playing in an unknown number of local and touring bands and acoustic ensemble acts, and who knows how many solo acoustic shows - over 200 of his songs he’s played live, yet very few in comparison have ever been recorded. Then there’s the fact that Steve just sort of disappears - sometimes for years at a time. 

“Music as Medicine. Music as Meditation. Music as Prayer.” 

Performing live only on the rarest of occasions over the last 10 years, Steve’s music, during that time, existed almost entirely underground - developing daily, songs being written, jam concepts explored, truth and emotion, examined, expressed and worked through… 

“A lot of folks might be surprised if they knew what I’d been up to for the last 10 years, but it doesn’t really matter because this is what I’ve been left with, and it’s everything I ever worked for. I never really stopped, but sometimes music has a more important purpose than public performance.” 

With the release of Soul in a Cage, Steve McCoy speaks openly and honestly, through lyrics and instrumentation, of revelations perceived upon emergence from “The Cave”. Rock, jazz, reggae, metal, acoustic, ballads, aggressively weird Improvisational music - from the melodic to the dissonant - It’s all on there with songs ranging from 3 to 16 minutes in length. From the quick hit to the extended trip, Soul in a Cage is an adventurous introduction to what is to come from Steve McCoy.