Cameron McGill

<a href="spotify:artist:1QTbEUUFf7uVu5SuGqnMVP" data-name="Cameron McGill">Cameron McGill</a> is a songwriter and poet from Champaign, IL. For nearly two decades, McGill has quietly carved out a place for his unsettling and darkly romantic songs. With lyrics that read like travelogues of strange encounters, McGill’s songs are a confluence of storytelling, dreamscapes, and overheard conversations. His albums range from the Jon Brion-influenced pop of <a href="spotify:album:7v9rum7Q1osoFOg8ahuMPj" data-name="Stories Of The Knife And The Back">Stories Of The Knife And The Back</a> (2004) to the troubadour musings of <a href="spotify:album:1OCOGnMJOR0vCzl9GzIihn" data-name="Street Ballads & Murderesques">Street Ballads & Murderesques</a> (2006). On albums <a href="spotify:album:2o2aDb5ZEo2TxbR1Fi0HPB" data-name="Hold On Beauty">Hold On Beauty</a> (2008), <a href="spotify:album:2CkadPfmYezLbcPSc0eW5W" data-name="Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders">Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders</a> (Parasol, 2009), Two Hits and A Miss (2009), <a href="spotify:album:47MK0l7K6iNpIV3d7sTnEh" data-name="Deserters">Deserters</a> (2010), and <a href="spotify:album:53smS7YCsPiRAi0koa87PO" data-name="Is A Beast">Is A Beast</a> (2011), McGill was joined by three incarnations of <a href="spotify:artist:0EdVp84ALwJCVjiK1B8tHm" data-name="Cameron McGill & What Army">Cameron McGill & What Army</a> before sitting down at the piano for 2013’s <a href="spotify:album:77EKAcRDw4Z4I9bkiH0U0K" data-name="Gallows Etiquette">Gallows Etiquette</a>. He was a member of <a href="spotify:artist:4fw9oPmbbmHW5aAJpkJdlI" data-name="Margot & The Nuclear So And So's">Margot & The Nuclear So And So's</a> from 2009-2014. 2020 saw the release of McGill’s chapbook Meridians (Willow Springs Books). His first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Augury Books in 2021.