Mack Hooligan

Mack Hooligan spent his formative years in Arizona and New Mexico, where he grew up listening to a mix of classic singer-songwriters, punk and New Wave upstarts, blues greats and folk/country artists. Mixing those influences, Hooligan started writing his own songs and playing at Phoenix, AZ area bars with three of his high school teachers, who played in a folky cover band.
Joining an open mic songwriting competition at his teachers' urging, Hooligan won the contest, only to have his award rescinded when the bar owners figured out how old he was (16). On another occasion Hooligan stepped in to break up a fight his social studies teacher inadvertently picked with a football lineman. It was a rough entry into show business.
After performing on &amp; off at bars and coffee houses in Flagstaff and Tucson, Hooligan spent most of the next two decades bouncing around the country. 25 years later, after he&#39;d settled in the Philadelphia suburbs, Hooligan was enticed into playing again. Two years after that he was headlining shows and releasing a <a href="spotify:artist:1mpEw4E2cHyrO6PZVMWqlW" data-name="Cliff Hillis">Cliff Hillis</a> produced EP.
Hooligan enlisted <a href="spotify:artist:3jkLL73Oat2AZB2sbNaRDO" data-name="John Faye">John Faye</a> to produce his second set of originals. Faye teases out a melancholy, emotive side of Hooligan on the 5-song EP <a href="spotify:album:06hP6q56yT85dEogqsNKBi" data-name="Your Goddamn Walls">Your Goddamn Walls</a>, released in 2019.
Mack&#39;s brand of musical hooliganism mixes rough-and-tumble roots rock, New Mex/Tex alt country (think Ray Wylie Hubbard meets Uncle Tupelo), and more traditional singer-songwriter balladry.