Tonight's Unplugged at the Grove concert featured Kevin Welch & opening was an Australian folk/country singer now living in Nashville named Audrey Auld. Audrey was pretty entertaining, good sense of humor, chatty between songs. She also had one heckuva lead guitarist with her. Can't remember his name, shame on me as he was really good.
Kevin Welch I had heard a lot about but didn't know his music at all. There are so many good artists here and I'm surprised regularly by how many are not on my radar. It just kills me. This guy is terrific! He mentioned his latest disc is up for album of the year but unfortunately their category also has the Robert Plant/Allison Krause record. He's been around a while. Has a great voice & is an awesome songwriter. His son Dustin, who opened at Shady last week, played with his dad tonight. Also in his band was a cellist & keyboard/accordion player. As so often is the case, these were a couple of guys who live in Austin so when they're around they play with whoever. The cellist is a regular in Alejandro Escovedos band & the keyboardists regular band is the BoDeans. That's just how it is here. It's pretty amazing to think that less than 2 weeks ago the cellist was playing in front of 100,000 people along Chicago's downtown lakefront as part of the annual Taste of Chicago/4th of July celebration and tonight he's here on this tiny stage in front of a couple hundred people at Shady Grove. Pretty cool.
At any rate I will be picking up plenty of Kevin Welch & going to hear him whenever he plays. He recently moved to Austin from Nashville so hopefully I'll get to see a lot more of him.
Check Kevin out at: http://www.kevinwelch.com/index.php
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