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* In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Tom Waits ... "I never seen anything like him" ... Kevin Kelly, on himselfYeah, that's me. The Great, Legendary Unknown. I play guitar & piano & sing my own songs. You won't forget me if you see me. I put it out there pretty good. I give it all up. Don't leave anything behind. Done a lotta work in the theatre, too, indy film, TV. Member of the Actors Studio. Entertainer/Performer/Shaman kinna thing I am. Played The East Village rock scene like CBGB's with my band The Hooligans which later became The Easties & turned into The Kevin Kelly Show Band. Did The Bleecker Street folk scene where it all started & out here I did the LA coffee house scene for awhile. Mostly, I'm a one-band but I always seem to pick up some funky cat along the way to accompany me. Kickin' up some some dust recently & knockin' 'em dead & buryin' 'em in my backyard here in Hollywood mostly at Pig 'n Whistle, Whiskey A GoGo, The Rainbow Room. Let's see I got anti-war song inspired by Cindy Sheehan on the radio (WBAI 99.5) in NYC & on an album called "United States of Conciousness" which I performed recently at The Whiskey A GoGo. Got a rock 'n roll album from The City called "Down In Tompkins Square Park" out on a limb & I'm about to release my own 15-song root-rock-folk-pop-punk-gospel-blues-poet offering called "Lost In The Cracks Of The Modern World". Both bodies of work got drum, conga, bongoes, bass, acoustic, electric guitar, piano, organ, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, horns, sax, trumpet, flute, backing vocals, gospel 3-part harmony & me howlin', cryin', shoutin' it out. An acoustic disc is in the works (working title based on a new song about the homeless called "Tent City") Promoter Rodrigo Salazar is having me do a South American tour after catchin' me at The Whiskey. Considering that. What else, I'm an Aries w/moon in Leo, rising Virgo, Mars & Venus in Aquarius. I'm single & I'd describe my life as the Prince Bum. I went down & I came back from the dead. I'm a poet & I can back it up. I'm a Ladies Man, a Man's Man, a Nowhere Man. See ya somewhere down the road ...

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Member Since: 19/11/2007
Band Website: www.thekevinkellyshow.com
Band Members: Me & yeah, sometimes, whatever invisible men, fellow fools, drummer clowns, strummers, horn blowers, harp-suckers, troubadours, fair-maiden dancers, corner boys, highway robbers, rocker babes, bands of one or many who seem to come along always in the nick of time to accompany me for a while on my way to somewhere down the road ...
Influences: Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, James Brown, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, Creedence Clearweater, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Ramones, Sinead O'Conner, Steve Earle, Van Morrison, Marlon Brando, Popeye, The Sailorman, The Beatles, Elvis & of course, my mother, Boots, who from whence I came a-crawlin' ...
Sounds Like: The E-Street Band meets The Pogues meets a garage band from Poughkeepsie meets the lunatic on the corner howlin' under the full moon. It's straight-up stuff. It moves. Got melody in it, hooks, harmony. Throw in the kitchen sink, too. Big, American Last Supper. The lyric content is everything though. I'm a poet, a storyteller, a protest singer lookin' for a girl. What can I say? My voice is a cross 'tween Tom Waits, Bruce, Neil Diamond, Elvis kinna, Dylan-esque. I like where Patti Smith goes when she gives it up. I bang the guitar & the piano, I beat it up, I'm a chugger. I sing every song like it's my last. I've tryed to do it another kinna cooler way. I just can't feel it like that. Ain't me. Rock 'n roll or no rock 'n roll, I gotta get the hell outta this cave 'cause I believe there's some light out there shining on!
Record Label: Poughkeepsie Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Hollywood Night ("Here In Niger")

And so it is, on this lazy Saturday night with no gig, no date, no dance to go to.I pick up the old go-to-guitar & the lyrics to "Here In Niger" (a song I wrote about a mother, her child, death, & dyi...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 02:11:00 GMT

"BONES OF MY PEOPLE": Brilliant KK show last night at Whiskey (if I do say so myself & I am)

Performed a song at The Whiskey last night along with "Noble Cause" called "Bones Of My People" (which I wrote last week). You know how jazzed a songwriter gets after giving birth to his/her new song ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:11:00 GMT

KK song "Noble Cause" release on album the "United States of Conciousness" at The Whiskey 4/02

Kevin Kelly’s song "Noble Cause" featured on the "United States Of Conciousness". Release: 4/2/08 at Whiskey A Go Go. (From 7:30 on. I go on ’round 10:30)Got my song an album, Mom! Yeah, ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:18:00 GMT

ACTING/TROUBADOUR PERFORMANCE (KEVIN KELLY)

I DO MY SONGS "COME TO ME", "OPEN UP PANDORA", "WHO'S GONNA BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT", "BLANKETMEN", "I REMEMBER YOU", "IT'S TRUE I FINALLY LOST MY MIND" & OTHERS. A STORY OF A TROUBADOUR IS MY STORY & I...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:04:00 GMT

Pig & Whistle gig Friday January 25th, 10PM & Whiskey a Go Go gig Wendsday Febuary 6th, 8:45 PM

Next Friday, January 25th at 10pm, I do the ol' "Pig & Whistle" again on Hollywood Boulevard. I gotta sing my songs out & I live a block away from The Pig so it's an easy come & go (any time outta a c...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:17:00 GMT

THANKS 4 GREAT AUDIENCE AT PIG N WHISLE LAST NIGHT!

Actress Peggy McCay of Days Of Our Lives & a producer of my new album "Lost In the Cracks Of The Modern World", the gifted singer/songwriter Cindy Alexander, Kerry Gogan who is determined not to be my...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:28:00 GMT

Tonight, 10PM! TheKevinKellyBand at Pig n Whistle!

10PM! Tonight! Kevin Kelly & a buncha his songs!at "Pig & Whistle" (6714 Hollywood Blvd. next door to The Egyptian Theatre)* accompanied by percussionist Christopher McGuire
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:15:00 GMT