Kenny Roby
Kenny Roby
Person from United States
Genres: country music, Inne, americana
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About Kenny Roby
Kenny Roby is an American singer-songwriter based in North Carolina. He is the the former lead singer of 6 String Drag and has recorded as Kenny Roby & Neal Casal. In the mid to late 90’s, as a founding member of the band 6 String Drag, Roby established himself as one of the main songwriting forces behind the Americana/Roots Rock movement. 6 String Drag played a major role in the early success of the E Squared label (initiated by Steve Earle and Jack Emerson). Roby and his band toured nationally with Earle and other acts and also gained a strong following on the east coast and the midwest USA. The band was featured on the soundtrack to the Grammy-nominated film You Can Count On Me and garnered much critical acclaim for their E Squared release High Hat. In 1998 the band broke up and Roby continued with a solo career releasing two more critically acclaimed albums Mercury’s Blues and Rather Not Know. In between, he recorded an album as Kenny Roby & Neal Casal. Roby’s writing and singing have been praised by Billboard, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Phoenix, The Washington Post, Option, No Depression, Performing Songwriter and many other publications. Kenny has also been featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered and Acoustic Cafe and has received extensive national airplay on NPR, Americana and AAA radio stations. Ryan Adams has claimed Roby as as an influential writer on his and his former band Whiskeytown’s music. Adams featured Roby’s song Rather Not Know on NPR’s All Songs Considered in 2004. (in a segment called You Play the Dj: Artist’s Picks). Adams mentioned Roby in Rolling Stone as the best songwriter that not many people have heard of. Roby's album "The Mercy Filter" (2006) leans much less on Americana than previous efforts but dips and turns more into straight up rock, experimentation, Beatle-esque grooves, and soulful ballads. The album features Scott McCall (Two Dollar Pistols, New Electric Combo), Mark O'Brien (Two Dollar Pistols, Barn Burning), David Kim (Les Dirt Clods, Houston Brothers) and Ray Duffey (6 String Drag, Countdown Quartet, New Electric Combo). In 2013 Roby released Memories & Birds which he described as "almost a concept album". In 2015, Roby reunited the original members of 6 String Drag and released Roots Rock 'N' Roll www.kennyroby.com
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