Blanket

You must use Microsoft Internet Explorer and have RealPlayer to listen to these Sound Files
Click Here to Download for Free

The Tracks

Kid Who Looks Like Me
I Can't Remember Life Before I got Here
Three If By Air
If Wishes Were Rivers
Love Is Possible
The Sweetest Poison
Everything Makes Me Cry These Days Except The Rolling Stones
Michael
Rachel Won't You Come
Big Sister
Homesick Angel
German Violin
Lighting Strikes

Contemporary folk songwriter Terry Kitchen has been practicing his craft since fourth grade and performing on the New England and national folk scene since the late 1980s. blanket is his fourth release on urban campfire, following 1995's I Own This Town, 1993's Blues and Grace and 1991's max po-KRIV-chak (Terry's given name).

Kitchen grew up in the college town of Easton, Pennsylvania, surrounded by the music and spirit of the 1960s. As a bored teenager in the '70s, Terry roamed the small town streets of Findlay, Ohio (the setting for "I Own This Town") before escaping to Los Angeles for college and music school. He moved to Boston and fronted the original pop/rock band LOOSE TIES in the mid 80s (whose video was played on MTV exactly once) before settling on the intimacy of acoustic music as the most natural setting for his songs.

In the past eight years Terry has performed on the New England and national coffeehouse and folk festival circuits (including Club Passim in Cambridge, Cafe Lena in New York, Godfrey Daniels in Pennsylvania, the Bluebird in Nashville, and the Stone Soup in Providence and the Falcon Ridge and Telluride folk festivals) and shared the stage with such artists as John Gorka, Dan Bern, Vance Gilbert, the Nields, Rod McDonald and Kristina Olsen. He was a finalist in the 1992 Falcon Ridge songwriter showcase (and a feature performer ever since) and a '94 Telluride "Troubadour."

Kitchen, ever a student of his craft, is a member of the Boston "Songos" songwriters group and a veteran of the Kerrville songwriting school. He leads songwriting workshops and songswaps in conjunction with performances. His song "Stonecutter," a faithful retelling of the Japanese folktale, has become a staple of regional folk radio. "Christmas Is Homeless" (from I Own This Town) was recently covered by Barabara Kessler. The 13 songs on blanket demonstrate Kitchen's ability to tell stories from unique and surprising perspectives and showcase his command of insightful contemporary folk songwriting.

Quotes from the folks

"One of New England's finest songwriters"
                                                Stephen Ide, Dirty Linen

"Terry Kitchen picks up where Elvis Costello and Tom Waits merge and leave off."
                                                Vance Gilbert

"Like the man himself, Terry Kitchen's music is compassionate, accessible, humorous and authentic."
                                                Geoff Bartley

"Terry Kitchen has a way of giving voice to the feelings that are common to us all."
                                                Jan Brick, WERS

"One of our favorite independent artists."
                                                Folk Music Quarterly

Please Take a Moment to Visit Other
Fine DNIRA Artist's At

Web Design
Brought to you by the

The CD Distribution and Web Presentation Music Professional's Prefer
For More Information Please E-Mail Us by clicking the link below

dnira@coam.net

©®Copyright 1999   All Rights Reserved
The DNIRA Music Group
The Guthrie Thomas Company
Hollywood-New York-Nashville-Milan-Hamburg-London-Kyoto