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About Me

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Originally from Richmond, Virginia, moved to LA in the late 80s and worked with Patty Smyth, Warren Hill, Rick Springfield, and Olivia Newton-John before landing the gig with Chicago in 1995. Have been with the band ever since and have released several solo instrumental projects over the past 5 years. I now reside in Nashville TN and am focusing on songwriting for singers not guitar players.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/24/2007
Band Website: keithhowland.com
Band Members: Depends on the band.....me mostly!
Influences: Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, Ted Nugent, Ace Frehley, Carlos Santana, Terry Kath, Steely Dan, Karen Carpenter, Kansas, Chicago, ToTo, Journey, Neal Schon, Neil Geraldo, Scott Henderson, Michael Landau....too many to name, my ears are always open!
Sounds Like: See influences....hopefully I sound like me now...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Hawaii, jet lag and the story behind "What R U Helmets Looking At?"

Here I sit in the Chicago airport at 5 something in the morning....just got in from Hawaii....it's about 1AM in Hawaii.....I'm tired. So I thought a Blog would be a way to distract myself. ...
Posted by Keith Howland on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:16:00 PST

Hotei, Tokyo, and the story behind "Kaflooey".....

OK....so 2 Tokyo shows, both sold out...pretty cool. Last night the great Japanese guitar player Hotei sat in on the encore and we did his tune "Battle Without Honor...." from the "Kill Bil...
Posted by Keith Howland on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:40:00 PST

Japan update and story behind "I Hate Heat".....

OK, so now I'm in Nagoya on a night off....most of you are sleeping right now...I am not....I am getting ready to go get some food....had a Moe's Burger for lunch....not bad. ...
Posted by Keith Howland on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:16:00 PST

The story behind the song "Snake It Tuggly".....and Japan update...

Howdy folks....sitting in my room in Osaka, Japan and had a nice show last night in Hiroshima. Great to see the Huey guys again! Feels like yesterday we were on tour together. &n...
Posted by Keith Howland on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:31:00 PST

"KeCraig" CD now available at Guitar9 Records and iTunes!

For those of you 21st century downloaders.....iTunes now has the "KeCraig" CD up on their site! Just search "KeCraig" on the iTunes music store and it should come up. Also, for those ...
Posted by Keith Howland on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:07:00 PST

OMG!! Japan here I come.....

Here we go...off to Japan...should be fun! I'll be checking in periodically from the other side of the world. Wish us luck! Anyone seen "Lost In Translation" with Bill Mur...
Posted by Keith Howland on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:38:00 PST

"KeCraig" is now available at CDBaby!!

Yup....everyone’s favorite CD website now has the "KeCraig" CD available for purchase at www.cdbaby.com/cd/kchowland . I’m really proud of this CD and I hope that you all like it.......
Posted by Keith Howland on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:35:00 PST

Vegas!!

Hi all, I’m getting ready to hop in the shower and head down for night one in beautiful Las Vegas! I’m excited too cause the "KeCraig" CDs arrived today from the du...
Posted by Keith Howland on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:33:00 PST

Carpenters....sort of....

We had a request for some Carpenters music from the latest "KeCraig" gathering...well here it is!
Posted by Keith Howland on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:53:00 PST

New jam on "KeCraig" myspace....

OK....so the producer (me) accidentally deleted the majority of the recording from this weekend but the jam that is on the "KeCraig" myspace survived. I have a few more nuggets that I'll throw o...
Posted by Keith Howland on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:05:00 PST