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T.J. Simon of Music-Box Online described him as "dressing like Buck Owens, singing like Dwight Yoakam, and writing songs like Buddy Holly." His voice is the Voice That Remembers; his voice, his show, and his presence you will not forget.

Chicago Review- Online Edition, September 2005
Max Brooks on Hankfest

"Though West Virginian John Lilly’s unaffected performance late in the afternoon stood out from the others, it was Kent Rose, Saturday’s final act, who stole the show.

Wearing pencil-thin black dungarees, a blue velvet jacket studded with rhinestones, and a jewel-encrusted, heart-shaped bolo tie, Rose matched the authentic audacity of his outfit with soulful, dead-on Hank Williams. His voice, which slides easily from dry and low to a mournful falsetto, was well suited for the task.

After a fast, yodeling version of "Why Don’t You Love Me," Rose, a 35-year veteran of the Chicago music scene, addressed the crowd.

"Believe it or not, I’m from Glencoe, Illinois, the hillbilly capital of the world," he said facetiously of the North Shore ’burb, before breaking into another in a line of busted-guts heartbreakers, "I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.""

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