Kevin Kelley

Due to the fact he performed and documented with among the best bands from the 1960s which he also performed and documented with additional notable folk-rock music artists, relatively little is well known about drummer Kevin Kelley. The cousin from the Byrds’ Chris Hillman, he became the drummer for just one of Los Angeles’ initial folk-rock rings, the Increasing Sons, in the middle-’60s, changing Ed Cassidy (who continued to Nature). The Increasing Sons had been well-respected because of their fusion of blues, folk, and rock and roll, but only surely got to record a unitary before splitting up. About 20 paths that they documented in their short life-span (all including Kelley), nevertheless, were released on Compact disc in the first ’90s. Kelley was employed in a men’s clothes store when he was asked to become listed on the Byrds around the start of 1968. The Byrds, though still at their creative peak, had been recently reduced towards the duo of Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman using the firing of David Crosby as well as the firing/resignation of drummer Michael Clarke. Kelley was the drummer for the Byrds’ 1968 country-rock recording Sweetheart from the Rodeo, having a lineup including fellow participant Gram Parsons. He also toured with them in the U.S., European countries, and South Africa. However he was dismissed from your band in past due 1968 to become changed by Gene Parsons, soon before Hillman remaining the band aswell. Kelley do manage several subsequent documenting credits, with Fever Tree (though it isn’t apparent whether he was an associate of that music group), on John Fahey’s past due-’60s record The Yellowish Princess, and on Phil Ochs’ 1970 live record, Gunfight at Carnegie Hall.