Nashville, Tennessee
Composer, Singer-Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

"We work ourselves wretched for one old wood coffin, if life doesn't get you, love will finish you off" sings K.S. Rhoads on his stunning debut album Dead Language, which American Songwriter Magazine declares, " is an exhibition in style, grace, and limitless possibilities." His music has been called "... a masterful marriage of indie-pop, orchestral, and american folk." His lush string arrangements recall Danny Elfman, and his lyrics recall F. Scott Fitzgerald. His live performances are rapturous and sporadic. He often has a string quartet he has dubbed "The Liza Minelli Furtado String Ensemble." In Lieu of a band, he loops himself while simultaneously playing multiple instruments and beatboxing. He produces, scores, and writes for many other artists as well. After a year of excessive touring (over 180 dates) he is busy working on his next album, which he says, "...is like a group of Russian composers drinking at a bar in the Louisiana swamp."

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Classical, Indie Rock

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Grey Fedora Publishing, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: Brickwall MGMT

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

everything. keys, bass, guitar

DAY JOB

Boj Yad

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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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,