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Bern Kelly

Nashville, Tennessee
28 Years Old
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GENRES
Singer/Songwriter, Rock , Alternative Country
PUBLISHING COMPANY
U Gonethen Pigeon (ASCAP), I own my own publishing
Contact
Management: N/A
Publishing: U Gonethen Pigeon, underpassrecords@gmail.com
Label: Underpass Records
Booking: underpassrecords@gmail.com
P.R.O.
ASCAP
INSTRUMENTS
bass / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / harmonica / piano / vocals
INFLUENCES
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Mark Kozelek, Marshall Crenshaw, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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