Kevin Welch

I really enjoyed the Kevin Welch show last night. I don't own any of his music, but only know his stuff through LaunchCast, so most of the stuff was unfamiliar to me. I'm going to have to correct that by buying some of his stuff. He did a few covers along with a lot of his own stuff, and mixed in some fairly interesting stories; the guy has good charisma on stage, similar to Joe Ely (for those who don't know, that's quite a compliment). Pretty cool. Oh, and I didn't realize it, but he's another artist who got started in Oklahoma. Of the people I've been listening to heavily (him, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Scott Melott, Great Divide, Randy Rogers), four of those have Oklahoma roots. Which may prove, in my case, that you can take the boy out of Oklahoma, but you can't take the Oklahoma out of the boy.

That's all for now, as I'm off to Gruene later to catch Scott Melott.

[Posted at 13:27 CST on 11/16/02] [Link]