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Kieran Kane - 100% match to Kevin Welch
7 October 1949, Queens, New York, USA. The 90s country singer and record company owner Kieran Kane initially enjoyed a certain amount of success as half of the O’Kanes alongside Jamie O’Hara. The duo split in 1989 to resume their solo careers, mostly as songwriters. The acoustic Find My Way Home did not sell sufficiently well for Atlantic Records to want to try aga Read more 
Radney Foster - 75% match to Kevin Welch
20 July 1959, Del Rio, Texas, USA. His father, who was a lawyer (as had been his grandfather and father before him), played guitar and sang and Radney, the second of four Foster children, followed his father’s example with regard to music. In 1979, dreams of being a country singer saw him drop out of university and move to Nashville in the hope of fulfilling his ambitio Read more 
Jim Lauderdale - 64% match to Kevin Welch
11 April 1957, Statesville, North Carolina, USA. Lauderdale’s father was a minister and his mother a music teacher and choir director. He played drums in the school band and after graduation decided to become a solo performer in New York. He impressed record producer Pete Anderson while in the Los Angeles production of Pump Boys And Dinettes and was recorded for the com Read more 
Rodney Crowell - 61% match to Kevin Welch
7 August 1950, Houston, Texas, USA. Combining careers as a country songwriter, producer and artist, Crowell rose to fame in the 80s as an influential figure in Nashville’s new breed of country traditionalists, along with Emmylou Harris, in whose Hot Band he worked for three years, Rosanne Cash, and fellow songwriters such as Guy Clark. His songs have been covered by Bob Read more 
Joe Ely - 58% match to Kevin Welch
9 February 1947, Amarillo, Texas, USA. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Ely is one of the most completely realized artists in contemporary country music, especially in the live situation where he excels. His work for MCA Records in the late 70s is latterly regarded as the link between country rock and so-called new country.Ely moved with his parents in Read more 
David Olney - 55% match to Kevin Welch
23 March 1948, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Singer-songwriter Olney played guitar from an early age and while attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he played in bands in his spare time. Soon, it was college that became subordinate and he left to take to the road with Bland Simpson, appearing on Simpson in 1971. In 1973 he settled in Nashville, Tennesse Read more 
Guy Clark - 54% match to Kevin Welch
6 November 1941, Rockport, Texas, USA. Clark has achieved considerably more fame as a songwriter than as a performer, although he is revered by his nucleus of fans internationally. Brought up in the hamlet of Monahans, Texas, Clark worked in television during the 60s, and later as a photographer - his work appeared on albums released by the Texan-based International Artists Read more 
Tom Russell - 54% match to Kevin Welch
5 March 1950, Arizona, USA. The country singer-songwriter Tom Russell grew up on a ranch in Santa Monica and had twin influences of cowboys and country music. He says, ‘Southern California was very rich in country music, not only with Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, but also the Hollywood cowboy scene. My brother became a full-on cowboy. It’s in the blood.’< Read more 
Greg Trooper - 52% match to Kevin Welch
New Jersey, USA. As a boy Trooper regularly made the 40-mile pilgrimage into New York City to check out the local folk clubs. He was only drawn to country music as he grew older, forming the Gram Parsons -influenced the Ravioli Brothers, at high school. He left home at 18, moving to Lawrence, Kansas, before heading further south to Austin, Texas, alongside former Ravioli Bro Read more 
Dave Alvin - 50% match to Kevin Welch
11 November 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA. The country guitarist Dave Alvin had a successful career with his brother Phil in the Blasters, whose best-known song, ‘Marie Marie’, was a UK hit for Shakin’ Stevens. On leaving the band, he worked with the punk band X and scored the movie Border Radio. His solo albums are typical of his career, being a mixture Read more 
Marty Stuart - 48% match to Kevin Welch
30 September 1958, Philadelphia, Mississippi, USA. Country singer Stuart learned the mandolin as a young child and played with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers, and went on the road with Lester Flatt when only 13 years old. After Flatt’s death in 1979, Stuart became part of Johnny Cash’sband. He married Cash’s daughter, Cindy, although in keeping with most o Read more 
Buddy Miller - 46% match to Kevin Welch
6 September 1952, Fairborn, Ohio, USA. This acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter started out as a bass player in bluegrass bands before switching to acoustic guitar in the late 60s. His long years as a journeyman session musician saw him criss-crossing America with various bands. He also set up his own Buddy Miller Band, which at one point in the early 80s included a yo Read more 
Ray Wylie Hubbard - 44% match to Kevin Welch
13 November 1946, Soper, Oklahoma, USA. Much of Hubbard’s initial fame rested on his songwriting. Jerry Jeff Walker recorded his composition ‘Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother’, turning it into a left-field country standard. Hubbard formed the Cowboy Twinkies who released a self-titled debut for Warner Brother Records in 1975, but the album’s failure le Read more 
Dale Watson - 41% match to Kevin Welch
7 October 1962, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. An old-fashioned honky tonk performer of the traditional variety, Dale Watson made a major impact in 1995 with the release of his Cheatin’ Heart Attack debut set for HighTone Records. Growing up in Alabama, he had been introduced to country music by his marine father who ran a small band. His father even released a single, ‘ Read more 
Robert Earl Keen - 41% match to Kevin Welch
11 January 1956, Houston, Texas, USA. In the mid-70s, Keen befriended Lyle Lovett at Texas A&M University, an establishment that combined academic and military activities. They often sang and played guitar together and they wrote ‘This Old Porch’, which appeared on Lovett’s first album. Keen also formed a bluegrass band, the Front Porch Boys. In 1981, he m Read more
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