Tag: Madison WI

  • Pat MacDonald and The Essentials, Essentialist Propaganda, 1983 on Counter-Pop

    Pat MacDonald and The Essentials, Essentialist Propaganda, 1983 on Counter-Pop

    Pat MacDonald would go on to be one half of Timbuk 3 with his wife Barbara Kooyman, listed here as Barbara K. MacDonald. “Too Much Sex (Not Enough Affection” from this EP also was later on Eden Alley in 1988. Pat MacDonald and The Essentials put out one full length album and this EP, which…

  • Timbuk 3, Eden Alley, 1988 on I.R.S. Records

    Timbuk 3, Eden Alley, 1988 on I.R.S. Records

    Timbuk 3 was the stage name for the duo of Pat MacDonald and Barbara K. MacDonald (nee Barbara Kooyman, aka Barbara K), as it evolved out of Pat MacDonald & The Essentials. They formed in Madison Wisconsin (later relocating to Austin Texas) and put out six albums, of which this was their second. I love…