Pete and Maura Kennedy

For several years in the first 1990s, Pete and Maura Kennedy were the best-kept key in folk-rock. Luckily, this suburban Washington, D.C. few have been producing the rounds of folk celebrations round the U.S. and Canada in the middle- to past due ’90s. The Kennedys started performing collectively in 1992, soon after they fulfilled. Maura, delivered and elevated in Syracuse, N.Con., was surviving in Austin, Tx at that time, while Pete, delivered and elevated in Washington, D.C., was on the highway with Nanci Griffith. Maura, a previous computer programmer, transferred to Austin in 1989 to be always a full-time musician. The pair’s musical affects are very eclectic: Pal Holly, the Everly Brothers, the Beatles as well as the Byrds, but also jazz, blues and globe music. Pete Kennedy’s history includes a group of renowned displays with Kate Wolf in the first 1980s, and he could be noticed playing slide electric guitar on Griffith’s Grammy-winning record Other Voices, Various other Rooms. He provides gained 20 Washington-Area Music Honours and was called Artist of the entire year in 1992. The set have two available albums for Greet Linnet, Lifestyle Is Huge (1996) and River of Fallen Superstars (1995). The upbeat Lifestyle Is Huge garnered stellar testimonials throughout the U.S. and received plenty of airplay at university and public r / c, aswell as AAA (adult record alternative) industrial radio. Signing up for the Kennedys on Lifestyle Is Huge are Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle, Charlie Sexton, Kelly Willis, John Gorka, Jimmy LaFave, Monte Warden, Nils Lofgren, as well as the gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds.