Kirk Kelly

Although he has only recorded sporadically, folk-rocker Kirk Kelly is a fixture on Manhattan’s Decrease East Side because the 1980s. The Greenwich Community resident initial received a flavor of national publicity in 1988, when he documented his debut single album, Move Man Move, for SST. At that time, some people had been surprised to visit a Bob Dylan-influenced folk-rocker documenting to get a label which was most widely known for punk and substitute rock. However when you really consider it, Kelly’s short association with SST makes sense. Kelly (who has classical guitar and harmonica) writes a whole lot of angry politics tracks; that’s something he provides in keeping with Dylan, but it is also something he provides in keeping with agitators just like the Clash, the Sex Pistols, as well as the Deceased Kennedys. Further, Kelly continues to be section of an East Coastline movement referred to as anti-folk — essentially, anti-folk can be folk-rock using a punk attitude. NY vocalist/songwriter Lach is definitely the king of anti-folk, and Kelly continues to be among his Decrease East Aspect allies. Actually, Lach and Kelly documented together because the Folk Brothers in 1985, offering a cassette-only discharge entitled All Folked-Up With Nowhere to look. Nonetheless it wasn’t until 1988’s Move Man Move that Kelly documented an album being a solo musician. Move Man Move ended up being Kelly’s just SST discharge; the vocalist/songwriter didn’t record another single record until 1997, once the extremely sociopolitical New Town arrived on Mugsy Information. The first 2000s discovered Kelly continuing to execute regularly in NY.