Sunday, January 22, 2006

Kenny Roby

One of my favorite songwriters lives right here in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kenny Roby, frontman for the regrettably-defunct Six String Drag, has just released his third offering, Mercy Filter. I made my way out to Raleigh's Pour House for Kenny's CD Release party on Friday night. Kenny was in top form, backed by a full band that included two drummers.

Kenny's new album is available over at his website. There are several musical offerings from his first two solo discs available there, in the form of flash-playable mp3's. For the new stuff, there are soundclips for Mercy Filter are available at Myspace.

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6 comments:

  1. DanielleSun Jan 22, 11:46:00 PM

    Very cool. My mom lives near Raleigh. Finally, incentive to go out to see her. Good music! (okay...no one tell my mother this, thanks...)

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  2. bigshouldersMon Jan 23, 10:16:00 PM

    lots of good music in this area, Danielle. another artist, Alina Simone (scroll down to see a post on her) has recently relocated from NYC to Carboro, NC. (which is to say, Chapel Hill.) i hope to catch her live show soon.

    b.s.

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  3. luisaThu Jan 26, 01:28:00 PM

    this guy looks like lyle lovett here.

    (did you hear chris penn died?? ! how depressing.)

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  4. bigshouldersThu Jan 26, 07:09:00 PM

    hey luisa... i can kind of see a resemblance. Kenny is way cooler than LL, though.

    that is sad about Chris Penn. i will forever remember him as "Nice Guy" Eddie. RIP.

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  5. luisaFri Jan 27, 08:50:00 AM

    no kidding!

    K Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies...

    the station where the seventies survived.

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  6. bigshouldersFri Jan 27, 08:56:00 AM

    seventh caller gets a pair of tickets to the Monster Truck Extravaganza!
    :)

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be brave!