Artist: Kieran Kane
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Kane/Welch/Kaplin – Self-Titled
This trio’s Lost John Dean was one of 2006′s finest releases, a spare, wonderfully constructed collection of original numbers and one traditional tune. A friend of mine who heard the album referred to their jagged, rough-hewn primitivism as “snake music,” which strikes me as an apt term. The pattern here is much as before: Kieran [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin – Lost John Dean
No, this is not a song cycle about the Nixon White House. That’s the traditional, elusive Long John/Lost John “from Bowling Green,” bearing a last name in this version (but no long harmonica solo). The “long gone/lone gone/lost John” verbal incantation of that very old song’s magic is also representative of this record’s essence. This [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch with Fats Kaplin – You Can’t Save Everybody
This album opens with the kind of prickly, slow-motion banjo that was a Dock Boggs specialty. Then comes Kieran Kane’s tenor vocal, sounding just as weary and ancient, declaring, “You can’t save everybody; everybody don’t want to be saved.” This is the kind of downbeat observation that no one wants to hear because it’s so [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Kieran Kane – A simple path
Dogs on the floor, mandolin on the couch, paintings on the wall. Kieran Kane made the paintings, plays the mandolin, pets the dogs. Kane is sick today, dressed in staying-home clothes. He hasn’t been painting, though he’s likely been noodling around on the mandolin a bit. That’s the same mandolin — a modest, inexpensive Kentucky [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Kieran Kane – 49th Street Cafe (Red Deer, AB)
Nights like this probably happen all the time in Austin and Raleigh. They just don’t happen on frozen prairie November nights in Red Deer, Alberta. At least not until Kieran Kane pulled into town to perform at a tiny, sold-out coffeehouse for 50 appreciative patrons. The intimacy of the venue seemed to relax Kane. Playing [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch – 11/12/13: Live In Melbourne
These two tunesmiths from the Dead Reckoning pool are about equidistant from whatever the hell the “mainstream” is — Kane’s an unrepentant smoothie with a Don Williams jones who busted through with the “New Country” O’Kanes in the late-’80s, while Oklahoma-raised Welch scrapes up two panhandles’ worth of dry-gulch tale-spinnin’. They’re both fine, evocative singers, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Kieran Kane – Six Months, No Sun
Nothing good can come of a middle-aged man writing from the perspective of a young stripper. On too many levels it is simply a place he should not visit; that’s not a moral judgment, just an observation about the chasms one’s imagination should not seek to jump. Kieran Kane’s opening “Table Top Dancer” isn’t quite [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #2 Winter 1995
A Night of Reckoning – North Star Bar (Philadelphia, PA)
About 50 folks (including The Blazers, who played the next night) made it out as the Dead Reckoning collective of Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane, Tammy Rogers, Mike Henderson and Harry Stinson hit the stage for an updated version of the old-fashioned hoedown. By the end of the two-hour set, about half of those 50 were [...]
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