Kacy & Clayton
Biography
A familial bond and their rolling ranchland home are at the heart of Kacy & Clayton’s music—a timeless amalgamation of British folk rock, classic American country, cross-cultural traditional songs and slightly faded psychedelia. Second cousins born and raised in rural Saskatchewan, Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum were musically educated and inspired at a young age by Kacy’s paternal grandfather and grew up playing countless hours of music together at family and community gatherings large and small.
Buoyed by Kacy’s otherworldly voice and Clayton’s virtuosic guitar playing, and with a musical wisdom that belies their ages, the forward-looking traditionalists have released a string of thrilling albums beginning with 2013’s The Day Is Past & Gone, including two produced by Jeff Tweedy and a collaboration with New Zealand’s Marlon Williams. Touring extensively throughout North America and Europe, the pair have shared stages with the likes of Wilco, Colter Wall, The Sadies, Ray Lamontagne and The Decemberists.
Confident, focused and ever-surprising, Kacy & Clayton continue to forge a musical path on their own terms and time, showing the way for a new generation of like-minded travelers. A life spent in music, with family at their side.
Video & Press
Kacy & Clayton And Marlon Williams: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
[NPR] By Bob Boilen WATCH HERE The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Across hemispheres, despite a nearly 8,000-mile […]
Canadian Folk Duo Kacy & Clayton Partners With New Zealand Singer-Songwriter Marlon Williams
[Pitchfork] The Canadian folk duo partners with the New Zealand singer-songwriter; together, they mix blues, murder ballads, and Indigenous lore, updating traditional forms in unexpected ways. The North and South have a storied history in Americana, but unfurl the map and that dividing line tells a different tale across continents. Canadian folk duo Kacy & […]
Kacy & Clayton Capture Loneliness, Desolation on ‘High Holiday’ (premiere + interview)
[Pop Matters] By JEDD BEAUDOIN “High Holiday” is the new song culled from Kacy & Clayton’s upcoming Jeff Tweedy-produced LP on New West. Clayton Linthicum chats about the writing and recording process and life on his country’s Great Plains. Canadian duo Kacy & Clayton will issue their latest album, Carrying On, 4 October via New West Records. Recorded at […]
PREMIERE: Kacy & Clayton Announce Their Return with “Carrying On”
[Flood Magazine] By Scott T. Sterling The deepest corners of rural American culture committed to music have come to be known as “Americana.” Saskatchewan-based cousins Kacy & Clayton work in those dusty back roads from a Canadian perspective, their sound infused with a panorama of influences that includes Bobbie Gentry, Hoyt Axton, and Ralph Mooney. The pair will be […]