A Happy Coincidence  Parker Macy and the blues  When it comes to
wailing the blues, Parker Macy takes it all the way back—he's
just a man and his guitar.  A lot of solo acoustic guitar
musicians are folkies. Do you end up on a lot of those bills?
How do people react?Yeah. Most of the time people are welcoming
to it. It sounds funny, but people really dig my guitar. I have
a metal guitar called a Fender Resonator that gets people's
interest before I start playing. It's not why I play it, but
it's a happy coincidence.  I guess that's why they call it . . .
Photo by John Gilhooley  Was it a conscious decision to be a
solo act?I've done the whole band thing, but it never really
works for the blues as much because the blues that I really
love—besides Buddy Guy—is the really old, old blues, played by
guys who would just stand on a street corner by themselves. The
history is so amazing, and the sound is so raw and pure. I love
Buddy Guy, I love B.B. King, I love all these guys who played
the Chicago blues, but I rea