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Kelly Joe Phelps: Sky Like a Broken Clock

Read "Sky Like a Broken Clock" reviewed by Alan Jones


Today’s blues is often characterized by eccentric stylistic deviations, sometimes only leaving trace elements of the roots. It is not uncommon to hear blues that is devoid of a bar structure and repetition. Ordered melody and bridges replace recurring chord patterns. The untrained vocals that often exemplify blues lyricism are relinquished for refined, more calculated tones of expression. Like other improvisation-based music forms, blues is moving in a linear fashion.

Guitarist/singer/songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps is taking the music by force, ...

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Kelly Joe Phelps Album Coming July 10

Kelly Joe Phelps Album Coming July 10

Source: All About Jazz

Kelly Joe Phelps' new album titled Sky Like A Broken Clock (Rykodisc) is due to hit the streets on July 10. Please take a moment to read some of the kudos Kelly has won in the past alongside a pre-release review of the new album from the U.K. The new album is Kelly's first to enlist accompanying musicians, and he's chosen Larry Taylor (Tom Waits' band) on string bass and Billy Conway (Morphine) on drums.

“(Kelly is) a self-contained, flesh-and-blood ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Western Bell

Skylight Music
2009

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Tap The Red Cane...

Skylight Music
2004

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Slingshot...

Skylight Music
2003

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Big Shaky

Skylight Music
2003

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Sky Like A Broken...

Skylight Music
2001

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Lead Me On

Skylight Music
1994

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