StringBean McCoy

StringBean McCoy is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, audio engineer, mixing/mastering engineer, and music producer living and working in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania.

Throughout a period of less than three years—between August 2020 and December 2022—McCoy self-recorded and released three albums worth of acoustic guitar-driven, folk-based, life-studies in minimalism: Where I Want To Be(2020), Travis McCoy (2021), andGainful Employment (2022).

In early 2025, on Reaching, the fourth full-length album, independently-released under his own imprint, StringBean Music, we find McCoy taking a bold, new, more analog direction—recording all ten songs directly to tape on a Tascam four-track recorder (that was loaned by Holy Crick Records/JTTemchack in support of the project). While the music is still all written, performed, and recorded by McCoy, there’s new instrumentation added to the mix with piano and organ filling in the always tastefully-simple arrangements.

McCoy entered the confluence of Holy Crick Records in 2023, mixing and mastering Rumble & Scream’s first release. Since then he’s continued to be our go-to mixing engineer and piano tuner.