Kent Agee

.COM'sMy father was a jazz guitar player who settled for Honky Tonks.My grandfather was a banjo and bass man who mc'd his own live stage/radio show, RAY AGEES HOME FOLKS PARTY, through the forties.My great-grandfather was an Appalachian fiddle player who moved from Kentucky to Indiana because he killed a man with a knife in a bar fight...he was cutting records in the 30s.I guess its natural that my music has an eliment of murder, honky-tonk smoke and midwestern confusion. I write about human frailty. My own facinates me, if it didnt it would scare me to death. These days the words seem to fit most comfortably into music that sounds like it was written on an old flat-top Gibson with rusty strings and a hole scratched through the pick-guard.I fronted a rock band here in Nashville through the late 80's and early 90's called "Jane, His Wife". Kind of Pearl Jam meets Peter Gabriel. It was a good band. We were on the verge of four record deals for three years..or was it the other way around. I'm lucky. I make a living in Nashville as a songwriter. Ive had cuts by people as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Andy Griggs, Vanessa Williams, Tom Kiefer, Evan and Jaron and Joy Lynn White among others. I still write rock..pop..and some stuff they call country. But when left on my own lately I write songs that get called Americana. Mostly celebrations of, and testaments to, humans just trying to do their inadequate best.