InsideOut Gallery, Traverse City, MI March 9, 2012. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps performing "Down To The Praying Ground" from his new album "Brother Sinner and The Whale". Visit www.blackhenmusic.com for more info. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps performing "Hard Time They Never Go Away" from his new album "Brother Sinner and The Whale". Visit www.blackhenmusic.com for more info. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps - Go There (slide guitar) he has so clean sound perfect slide guitar and really blues vocals. + Informações

FreshWater Studio - Boyne City, MI March 10, 2012. + Informações

InsideOut Gallery, Traverse City, MI March 9, 2012. + Informações

FreshWater Studio, Boyne City, MI March 10, 2012. + Informações

Acoustic Cafe - Carrie Rodriguez, Erin McKeowin The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI - 01/24/2012. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps performing at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA on January 24th, 2008. www.kellyjoephelps.com. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps live at Freight & Salvage - Berkeley, CA on February 1st, 2009. + Informações

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Kelly Joe Phelps performing "Hope In The Lord To Provide" from his new album "Brother Sinner and The Whale", as well as an interview on his return to slide guitar.. + Informações

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Me playing martin d16-rgt, Crows nest-Kelly joe Phelps. Recorded with iphone4.. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps at the Artiste Sanctuary Concert Series at St. Jude's in Cedar City, UT 05/12/12 www.kellyjoephelps.net It's as thin as the edge of a razor, the road separating Heaven from Hell, sin from salvation, redemption from despair. It's a lonely road to go down and like the old gospel says, you've got to walk it for yourself. Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record, 'Western Bell' came out in 2009. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson's door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. Together Phelps and the veteran producer embarked on a three day recording odyssey that marked their fourth collaboration since Dawson played slide on 'Slingshot Professionals', produced 'Tunesmith Retrofit' and released 'Western Bell after it proved too daring for Rounder Records. The result is 'Brother Sinner and the Whale', a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work. Since his debut album 'Lead Me On', came out in 1994, the Pacific Northwest based singer and songwriter has written and performed some of the most compelling slide guitar based music ever recorded. Though he spent his early years playing free jazz, he has never strayed too far from the roots .... + Informações

Me playing Kelly joe phelps songs on my Taylor w 10 ce grafted walnut. + Informações

Me playing Kelly joe phelps songs on my Taylor w 10 ce grafted walnut. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps at the Artiste Sanctuary Concert Series at St. Jude's in Cedar City, UT 05/12/12 www.kellyjoephelps.net It's as thin as the edge of a razor, the road separating Heaven from Hell, sin from salvation, redemption from despair. It's a lonely road to go down and like the old gospel says, you've got to walk it for yourself. Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record, 'Western Bell' came out in 2009. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson's door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. Together Phelps and the veteran producer embarked on a three day recording odyssey that marked their fourth collaboration since Dawson played slide on 'Slingshot Professionals', produced 'Tunesmith Retrofit' and released 'Western Bell after it proved too daring for Rounder Records. The result is 'Brother Sinner and the Whale', a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work. Since his debut album 'Lead Me On', came out in 1994, the Pacific Northwest based singer and songwriter has written and performed some of the most compelling slide guitar based music ever recorded. Though he spent his early years playing free jazz, he has never strayed too far from the roots .... + Informações

Studio recording Martin D16-rgt, Intro jericho recorded and played by Lars Vendel, in Ingesound studio. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps at the Artiste Sanctuary Concert Series at St. Jude's in Cedar City, UT 05/12/12 www.kellyjoephelps.net It's as thin as the edge of a razor, the road separating Heaven from Hell, sin from salvation, redemption from despair. It's a lonely road to go down and like the old gospel says, you've got to walk it for yourself. Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record, 'Western Bell' came out in 2009. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson's door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. Together Phelps and the veteran producer embarked on a three day recording odyssey that marked their fourth collaboration since Dawson played slide on 'Slingshot Professionals', produced 'Tunesmith Retrofit' and released 'Western Bell after it proved too daring for Rounder Records. The result is 'Brother Sinner and the Whale', a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work. Since his debut album 'Lead Me On', came out in 1994, the Pacific Northwest based singer and songwriter has written and performed some of the most compelling slide guitar based music ever recorded. Though he spent his early years playing free jazz, he has never strayed too far from the roots .... + Informações

This power duo performs a new co-written gospel song, "Pilgrim's Reach", at an Acoustic Vortex house concert in Larkspur, CA.. + Informações

cover by Joseph Blake. + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps at the Artiste Sanctuary Concert Series at St. Jude's in Cedar City, UT 05/12/12 www.kellyjoephelps.net It's as thin as the edge of a razor, the road separating Heaven from Hell, sin from salvation, redemption from despair. It's a lonely road to go down and like the old gospel says, you've got to walk it for yourself. Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record, 'Western Bell' came out in 2009. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson's door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. Together Phelps and the veteran producer embarked on a three day recording odyssey that marked their fourth collaboration since Dawson played slide on 'Slingshot Professionals', produced 'Tunesmith Retrofit' and released 'Western Bell after it proved too daring for Rounder Records. The result is 'Brother Sinner and the Whale', a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work. Since his debut album 'Lead Me On', came out in 1994, the Pacific Northwest based singer and songwriter has written and performed some of the most compelling slide guitar based music ever recorded. Though he spent his early years playing free jazz, he has never strayed too far from the roots .... + Informações

Kelly Joe Phelps at the Artiste Sanctuary Concert Series at St. Jude's in Cedar City, UT 05/12/12 www.kellyjoephelps.net It's as thin as the edge of a razor, the road separating Heaven from Hell, sin from salvation, redemption from despair. It's a lonely road to go down and like the old gospel says, you've got to walk it for yourself. Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record, 'Western Bell' came out in 2009. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson's door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. Together Phelps and the veteran producer embarked on a three day recording odyssey that marked their fourth collaboration since Dawson played slide on 'Slingshot Professionals', produced 'Tunesmith Retrofit' and released 'Western Bell after it proved too daring for Rounder Records. The result is 'Brother Sinner and the Whale', a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work. Since his debut album 'Lead Me On', came out in 1994, the Pacific Northwest based singer and songwriter has written and performed some of the most compelling slide guitar based music ever recorded. Though he spent his early years playing free jazz, he has never strayed too far from the roots .... + Informações

You can download the full length video at www.video-4-download.com THE FINGERPICKING GUITAR OF KELLY JOE PHELPS Taught by Kelly Joe Phelps. Kelly Joe has chosen five originals and one traditional song to demonstrate how he uses fingerpicking techniques to communicate his musical vision, and he gives you the tools you need to bring out the best in your own arrangements. Starting out in standard tuning with the relatively straightforward fingerpicking song 'Tommy' and the off-beat Delta-style blues tune 'Sally Ruby,' Kelly Joe teaches how to build arrangements and improvisations using textures, rhythmic devices, unusual chord forms, blues scales and a variety of guitar licks against a steady thumb bass. One of the many revelations of this lesson is the in-depth look Kelly Joe gives us in how he takes a traditional song (Rev. Gary Davis' 'I Am the Light of This World' in open G tuning) and infuses it with his unique energy and passion. He plays it in its traditional form, and then demonstrates how he adds his own touch by changing both the guitar part and his vocal approach. Kelly Joe shows how he uses chord forms and scales to improvise his arrangement based on how he sees the fingerboard, moving up the neck to play high notes against open bass strings. Kelly Joe then moves further into alternate tunings, showing you how you can (as he puts it) 'change the strings to whatever you want and then find musical magic in it.' 'Capman Bootman' is arranged in DADGCD, with its banjo .... + Informações