Black Horse Records

Black Horse Records is an independent label owned by recording artist and singer/songwriter Mary McGuire.

Growing up in 70's Detroit and learning from the radio jocks of America's first underground radio stations was all it took for Mary to pick up the guitar and learn her first Beatles, Neil Young, Eagles and Led Zeppelin tunes. Once she started, her appetite for acoustic rock guitar was fueled. Loads of guitar lessons, gigging solo and stints in bands with like minded musicians writing and recording led her to rack up miles on the highways across America. Mary found her writing songs about where she was, what she saw and what she was doing from her perspective gleaned in the Upper Midwest. She found that each place had a different soundtrack that influenced her writing - from industrial Detroit to the the shores of Martha's Vineyard to the rhythm of the horses clipping along on the car-free streets of Mackinac Island. Absorbing the distinct sound of the people and places where she has lived and letting it all influence her is what defines her characteristic songwriting style.