Cincinnati Native Arlo McKinley's New Album Ends His Streak of Bad Luck

Cincinnati-born musician Arlo McKinley has been guided by one rule, a subset of Murphy’s Law that could be dubbed McKinley’s Codicil: If something good happens, expect a swift kick in the teeth to follow.

McKinley’s 2022 album This Mess We’re In seems to turn the bad luck around, but the musician had a hard run once he landed at the record label of his dreams.

After endless local, regional and national gigging in the wake of 2014’s debut release Arlo McKinley & the Lonesome Sound, a series of fortunate events began to unfold. McKinley had just recorded his sophomore album, 2020’s Die Midwestern, and was considering a self release when he received a call from Jody Whelan, the son of John Prine and Fiona Whelan Prine and the head of his father’s Oh Boy Records. Whelan had heard McKinley’s music and asked him to play Nashville’s annual AmericanaFest, which turned out to be a major turning point.

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