Irene Kelley’s crystalline vocals warmly envelop listeners on her new album, Snow White Memories, wrapping them in a soothing blanket of sound. The eminent bluegrass singer and songwriter delivers these 11 songs with a piercing intimacy that reverberates in the […]
One line from the chorus of “Something about a Train Sound,” the nimble opening track on Benny’s TV Repair, describes perfectly the entire album: “music to my ears it just feels right.” Every song on Irene Kelley’s album is music […]
Thomm Jutz’ Facebook page has looked more like a chart feed than a social media site. But you can’t blame the prolific songwriter for the screen shots celebrating his plethora of recent hits. “#6, 7, 9 and 17 this […]
From Nashville-based Irene Kelley – Bluegrass-Country-Americana-Folk…..the original hybrid.
I want to be Sergio Webb. I want roll up my world like a sleeping bag for a night, and step into the life of one of Nashville’s great guitar-toting sidemen. I want to be Sergio Webb. I want to […]
There’s an astonishingly high number of perfect country music gems — tightly constructed, lyrically and emotionally direct, simply and elegantly rendered — on Nashville singer-songwriter Irene Kelley’s second album. If Music Row’s producers are as smart as they think they […]
Irene Kelley came to Nashville more than a decade ago; since then, she’s had (and lost) an MCA deal and written some great songs, recorded by country and bluegrass artists old and new — from Loretta Lynn to Trisha Yearwood, […]
