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The thing about being a one man crew is that when it actually comes time to release music the amount of work simply compounds and time has a nasty habit of running away from you. Nevertheless, here we are! Monday morning of release week for “Adiga Adiga” (my Telugu cover of the fantastic song by Sid Sriram).

The question I was asked most often when I would tell people I was releasing a cover of Telugu Song was “Why? There’s no real market for it… You’re not going get rich or famous from it. So why bother?”

And I thought about it for a while – I think honestly in the moment I gave the standard response of “Oh you know, I love the music and I love the song”. Which is true… I do and that’s part of it for sure.

There’s another part, however, that I realized in both working on this song and trying my best to do it justice both in musicality and in the Telugu language, is that my why is bigger than that.

As artists we have the capacity to respond to life and its situations in ways that others can’t. And I recognized in myself that’s what I was doing. In life people come and go and most often that’s that and there’s nothing more to be said or to be done. But as an artist I get to do just a little bit more… So I suppose in response to “Why”? This song is meant to be a heartfelt letter to someone very special to me.

She knows who she is.

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Unreleased | “Tennessee”

STARTERS

As spring draws to a close here in Tennessee music, events, and venues around the country are starting to see an increase in performances. First off- yay!! It’s really exciting to witness the art and life of this town seemingly reborn.

NEW MUSIC

Yes. I’m heading back into the studio to work on three new songs to release later in 2021. With the delays and myriad issues 2020 posed to both music and the rest of the world I’m really looking forward to leaning into this season of creativity, production, and potential in the coming months and years.

THE IN-LIST

Yes, I’m aware that I don’t post as often to this blog as I should… but as the great Sherlock would say “the game is afoot!” And yes things are happening that should increase my ability to share content here in the very near future! So if you haven’t yet subscribed… do it! (Especially if you believe in my music and career for the long term. Think investment here as I will not soon forget those who believed when it wasn’t popular. Cause yeah. Someday soon… it’ll be the New Thing 😉

FINE

As always…. thanks for joining me on this journey and following along with my story. I love you all!

~Kent

(P.S Enjoy the full video of an unreleased song “Tennessee” above!) 🙂

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Well spring is in full swing here in Nashville. Finally seeing thunderstorms and rain showers rather than storm warnings… which is a good thing lol. But I could do without the tornado warnings.

In a couple weeks I’ll be expanding outwards from Nashville and attempting to find some gigs in St Louis, Missouri. Rather exciting news! We’ll see how it all plays out but everything is an adventure regardless so it will be a blast I’m sure.

In more immediate news, I’ll be headed back into the studio to work out a couple more tracks. This time they’re definitely less extensive in the production side of things (I mean what isn’t… have you heard Gypsy Heart??) Anyways, it’ll be mostly piano and vocals… but we might decide to throw some strings and guitar cause hey- Why not? I’m crazy.

This week looking to set up a live video shoot to record a couple live band songs— it’s kind of last minute but if it works out I’ll be sharing it here! So make sure to subscribe to this really sporadically posted, hopefully entertaining, but always erratic, blog of my musical journey!

Cheers!

-Kent