Mac Hoffmann is a Minneapolis-based songwriter working at the intersection of the personal, the political, and the absurd. His songs are rooted in Americana, shaded with folk, blues, and bluegrass—echoing the lyrical conviction of Jason Isbell, the wry tenderness of John Prine, and the haunted clarity of Townes Van Zandt.

With a background spanning courtrooms and codebases, breakdowns and breakthroughs, ambition and surrender, he treats songwriting not as therapy or hobby, but as vocation: a daily discipline of precision, ache, and restraint.

The words lead. The music listens.

His debut single, “The Fall of the Velvet Hammer,” is a politically charged acoustic track rooted in his time in the Illinois legislature—now streaming everywhere. It’s a stripped-down reckoning with corruption, silence, and the cost of looking away

He released his first EP, Midwest Finesse—quieter, slyer, full of mischief, hesitation, and bruised affection.