Kevin Anderson
Bar guitarist from Louisville, often simply known as "Anderson". Associated with Gubbey Records and Adept Recordings, contributing a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff to both labels.
Biography via Gubbey Records
Primitive bar guitarist, Anderson has appeared in small local venues sporadically for nearly half his 3+ decades on the instrument. Although often fairly traditional in approach, this is no pocket-folk act, billing more often with experimental ensembles, or acts hatched from punk and outside jazz. The company he keeps reflects his uniquely aggressive approach of fierce and intricate finger picking coupled with pre- emphysematic vocals. Offering a fair balance of original material as well as a rare selection of the spoils from local and general larceny, Anderson shows many faces on stage. Stylistically agile, he is often subtle and beautiful or forceful and offensive, but always intensely present.
- - “Feels like car trouble in the desert; I thought he was dead.” - Doug Martin PhD
- - “…through smoke and whiskey to soak into your consciousness whole. Anderson's played chattering bar rooms and humid porches, dim nightclubs and open wilderness. He's traded licks with cowboys and bluesmen, with rockers and honkey-tonk casualties, with punkers and jazzmen.” - Bill Zink
- - ”Si me tocas una vez mas, dicere mi esposo” - anonymous
Discography
Studio Albums
- HACK (Adept Recordings)
- XIII (Adept Recordings)
Splits
- Gubbey Records Split Series Vol. 1 (Split 7" with Furlong) (2010, Gubbey Records)
Compilation Appearances
- Head Cleaner: A Louisville Music Compilation vol 1 & 2 Double Cassette/Digital, 2013
- Head Cleaner: A Louisville Music Compilation vol 3, 4, 5 & 6 Triple Cassette/Digital, 2014
- Head Cleaner: A Louisville Music Compilation vol 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 Triple Cassette/Digital, 2015