Hi. Glad you stopped by.
I grew up in a small town in Illinois where everybody grew up to become doctors and lawyers and teachers. My parents took me to see Pete Seeger at my school's auditorium. Watching him, alone on a stage with just a banjo, a voice, and a song, hearing the entire room join in for the chorus, I was lifted up into a dream of someday doing that myself, singing and playing my songs, to move somebody in the way that evening moved me. I knew that my home would not be a courtroom, a classroom, or an office, but a stage beneath the spotlights.
Thanks to Nick Biscardi I can share with you five new songs he engineered and mixed at Tribeca Flashpoint in Chicago:
Track 1 It's Hell to Outlive Your Heroes
T2 She Said She Said
T3 I Know How It Feels
T4 When the Sadness
T5 Hello Choo Choo Baby
T6 Texas Hellkitten Live at Reggie's
See my two minute video at www.savethepostoffice.com. Scroll down the right side to find There Used to be a Post Office Here.
Hear the high-lonesome sound of Hank Williams, Sr., the rocking tenderness of Buddy Holly, and the soul-pop stylings of Arthur Alexander whenever I step to the microphone in my Stetson and boots, trusty guitar in hand. I am Kent Rose, the Voice that Remembers.
Get to know the music and mystery of this hillbilly singer from Glencoe, Illinois, and how I survived a career at the post office while creating a catalog of classic original tunes, as well as mastery of familiar gems of the Americana roots genre.
My CD, One Riot One Ranger, featuring "Women Keep Smashing Up My Cars", played on NPR's Car Talk, is available in disc or download through CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kentrose. Or contact me directly through this site. It features 16 solo cuts plus the 4 full band songs from Depot and Diner.
I perform solo, duo, or with the swinging road house rhythms of my band, the Remedies. Special events? I love them!
Kent close up photo by Julia Maria Rooney. Remedies on stage photo by Brian C. Janes.
