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Kevin Welch in session

Respected Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch talks to Bob and plays songs from his new solo album, A Patch of Blue Sky.

Respected Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch talks to Bob and plays songs from his new solo album 'A Patch of Blue Sky'.

Kevin Welch grew up in Oklahoma. He had already toured as a teenager with several bands before he moved to Nashville in 1978 to work as a songwriter. Over the next several years his songs were recorded by many of Nashville's biggest artists including Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. At the same time he was performing in Nashville clubs and bars, and in 1988 he signed a record contract with Warner Brothers, and started releasing albums in the early 90s.
In 2004 he teamed up with singer-songwriter Kieran Kane and multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplin to record the album You Can't Save Everybody. The trio followed this up with Lost John Dean in 2006, which reached number one on the Americana charts, gaining nominations for several awards including Duo/Group of the year at the 2006 Americana Awards. Their next album Kane Welch Kaplin was also nominated for Duo/Group.
In the spring of 2008 Kevin left Nashville for Austin Texas where he joined with fellow musicians Jimmy LaFave, Sam Baker, Slaid Cleaves and John Fullbright to launch Music Road Records, and self-produced his first solo record in eight years, A Patch of Blue Sky.

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Thu 14 Oct 2010 19:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Chicks

    Ready To Run

    • Fly.
    • Monument.

  • Robert Earl Keen

    The Rose Hotel

    • The Rose Hotel.
    • Hump Head.

  • Tift Merritt

    Engine To Turn

    • See You On The Moon.
    • CONCORD RECORDS.

  • Mary Chapin Carpenter

    The Way I Feel

    • The Age Of Miracles.
    • Rounder.

  • Hot Club of Cowtown

    Time Changes Everything

    • What Makes Bob Holler.
    • Proper.

  • Kevin Welch

    The Great Emancipation

  • Kevin Welch

    Long Gone Dream

    • Recorded on 12th October for Bob Harris.

  • Kevin Welch

    A Patch of Blue Sky

    • A Patch of Blue Sky.
    • Music Road.

  • Trishas

    Rise Above

    • We Are The Trishas.
    • download.

  • Sam Baker

    Iron

    • Mercy.
    • Bull Creek Productions.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Oct 2010 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2