Nashville, Tennessee
48 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"I've traded booze and barstools for coffee and folding chairs"

BIOGRAPHY

I'm a recovering alcoholic. My clean date is 3/26/93. I became interested in writing songs early in life, but my disease kept me from realizing my potential to any measure.
After struggling with depression and working my steps "in all my affairs", I've decided that I am happiest when I'm creating music. So, the obvious next step was to share my songs with the rest of the world in hopes of passing on some of my "experience, strength and hope." If anything else comes out of this, than like my new life in general, it would be just another bonus. Thanks for stopping by.

Chris K.

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Country, Folk

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Chris L. Kennedy, I own my own publishing

Contact

Administrative: Chris L. Kennedy

P.R.O.

OTHER

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

Bill W., Dr. Bob, T.Graham Brown, Steve Earle, John Hyatt, & Dean Dillon

DAY JOB

Service/Distribution

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

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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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Spoon: The Power of Transference

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over 15 years, the Austin, Texas band have survived lineup shuffles and early record label neglect, finding their signature style with 2001’s Girls Can Tell and quietly building one of the strongest rock catalogs of the decade.