We've been keeping up with Kevin So for quite some time and have been covering him on TheFrontloader.com ever since the site's inception in 2008. Kevin is a talented singer, songwriter, and guitarist who has released several great albums, both studio and live recordings, over the years. Last March Kevin released Best Foot Forward, and now he's back with his latest, an amazing live acoustic album titled LiFe Solo AKouStic. The album is packed with 25 tracks of folk/blues music that Kevin performed in concert last spring at Club Passim, the famous subterranean Harvard Square folk [...]
After 25 Grammy Awards and just about as many albums, Stevie Wonder needs little introduction. Signed to Motown Records at the tender age of 11 after being discovered by Ronnie White of the Miracles, the blind-from-infancy multi-instrumentalist's first two albums didn't make much of a splash - his sophomore outing, a tribute to the songs of Ray Charles, is notorious for the poor match it makes between "Uncle Ray's" world-weary lyricism and "Little" Stevie Wonder's sunny, high-pitched innocence - but his subsequent work as a composer, singer-songwriter, and arranger is legendary. [...]
Feeling like a little mellow, acoustic tunage before the assault of NX35 and SXSW? Opening Bell Coffee offers up a nice bill of singer/songwriters this evening with Kevin So and Emily White.Hail... Continue reading "Gig Alert: Kevin So and Emily White at Opening Bell Coffee" >
I've been following Kevin So since his 2003 release, the double-Cd Leaving the Lights On. He's a fantastic artist who has made quite a name for himself not only in the performance world, but the songwriter one as well, having fans all over the country with Keb' Mo', Joe Cocker, Billy Bragg, and Amos Lee among them. We here at TheFrontloader.com wrote about Kevin as our Featured Artist back in December [...]
On December 8th of last year we featured an incredibly talented artist, Kevin So. In the feature we told you that Kevin was in the studio working on his new solo acoustic album, Best Foot Forward. Well, we received the exciting news today that the album will most likely be finished by mid-March. Kevin says, "Great news! My new CD "Best Foot Forward" is done and ready to be pressed. Huge thanks to Abby Getman at GoGoGetman Design and Eileen Joyner and Joe Anzuena at Oasis for helping me move this along. [...]
Here are the final five artists and bands that were featured here on TheFrontloader.com in 2008. As I said before, all of these artists are worth discovering (or revisiting)... so if you missed them the first time around, here's your chance to catch up! Follow the links to the complete article and show [...]
Through the magic of CDBaby, I came across Kevin So's album Leaving the Lights On. Being Chinese myself, I was looking for other Asian-American artists to check out… I was interested in hearing what other Asians were writing and singing about… I found a wealth of Asian artists out there, which was [...]
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