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Heather McKay: Life Got in the Way

by Jack Bowers
October 15, 2025

Guitarist Heather McKay, who has performed with artists in a variety of styes from Latin jazz to rock, rhythm and blues to Afro- Caribbean, even Persian music and beyond in a career that has spanned more than twenty-five years and counting, provides a rationale for writing every song (save one) on her debut recording, Life Got in the Way. But she does not say why she chose the album's name. The presumption is that she has been far too busy ...