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"A taste of what an imaginative artist can do with a guitar."
-- The Times Picayune, New Orleans LA
"Rewrites the blues manual, tears it up and walks off with the very best elements into another stratosphere."
"Guitar led psychedelic intensity that takes your breath away."
-- Real Music Live, London England
"Recommended: Hot Rootsy Rhythm & Blues Guitarist."
-- The Austin Chronicle, Austin TX
The roots of Key Frances' music go back to the funky swing of New Orleans and the driving guitar of Austin Texas. Northern New Mexico gave it its psychedelic hit propelled by snowboarding its mountain tops. Recent songs were born in the deserts of New Mexico, the streets of New York City, and the coast of San Francisco.
Key now lives in the coastal mountains around Los Angeles where he formed his most recent project Deep Eddy, hailed by many as the best live music period.
The longstanding music project The Key Frances Band focuses on earlier rootsy roadhouse songwriting while the recent project Deep Eddy is definitely more experimental, psychedelic, ever changing. These sounds are more akin to The Pyramid Session Live.
Frances has shared the stage with Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Albert Collins, Charlie Sexton, Karla Bonoff, John Hammond, Robert Cray, Joe Ely, Gary P. Nunn, Townes Van Zandt, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Asleep At The Wheel, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Chris Duarte, Ian Moore and many, many others.
Key is an acclaimed highlight at various festivals, including The London City Limits Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Austin River Festival, Thirsty Ear Festival, Portland Waterfront Blues Benefit, the NYC Film Festival, etc.
He has worked as a Motown session player in Los Angeles, headlined at the Astoria in London, in NYC at the Bitter End. He played all over in New Orleans where he sat in on sessions with producer Daniel Lanois (Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind, U2's Joshua Tree) and in Austin, including record attendance Friday night gigs at the famous Black Cat Lounge. It was in Austin that Key's music caught the attention of the producer Bob Johnston (Bob Dylan's Bring It All Back Home through Nashville Skyline) who teamed him up with Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon, of Stevie Ray Vaughan's famed Double Trouble band, for an album of Key's original music.
Key Frances began his professional music career in London, England. Within a few short months of arriving, with a UK band, Key was headlining his own music at the London City Limits Blues Festival and at the Astoria where he played on Saturday nights. His profile became so well known that Key had to run out of the country before immigration removed Key from the UK for visa violations. Key moved to New Orleans, Louisiana for a couple of years. He lived and played his music with Louisiana musicians. The band played just about every venue in New Orleans including The New Orleans Jazz Festival. His music then bought him to Austin, Texas. Once again Key lived and played with local Texas musicians. For a period of two years they played every Austin venue and many outlying venues in Houston, Dallas, and Forth Worth. In Austin Key had record attendance for his regular Friday night gigs at the Black Cat Lounge. Key also played the Austin River Festival.
During this time producer Bob Johnston (Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash) brought Key together with Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton of Double Trouble to record an album of Key's original music after Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death. After recording Key, Chris, and Tommy made a few live appearances.
Key relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he played the mountain communities throughout Colorado and New Mexico. Key played the Taste of Colorado Festival in Denver and the Thirsty Ear Festival in Santa Fe. San Francisco is a favorite stop where they play several venues as well as the Bolina's Music Festival and are a regular at Biscuits & Blues. Key traveled up to Portland to play the Portland Waterfront Festival and over to New York City for the New York Film Festival. Audiences have been known to jump up out of their seats and give the band a standing ovation!
Recently Key has moved to Los Angeles where he is playing with the best musicians the city has to offer. He is playing the best venues, headlining weekends at Harvelle's in Santa Monica and B.B. King's in Los Angeles.
Source: http://www.keyfrances.com.
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| Key Frances on Wikipedia |
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| Burning Woman | The Pyramid Session Live | 6:48 | 94 |  33 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Live / Pop rock / Dance / Electric guitar / Bongos / Jim's double favorite / Solo vocalist / Electric / Band | In Another World | The Pyramid Session Live | 3:45 | 28 | 7 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Pop rock / Sparkit singulars / Electric / Band | Ancient Love | The Pyramid Session Live | 5:06 | 83 | 34 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Blues / Dance / Rock / Dark / Way slow / Sparkit singulars / Solo vocalist / Electric / Band |
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- Spotlighted: Thursday, May 20th 2004
- Artist site clicks: 130
- Songs on WWR: 12
- Total plays: 384
- Total requests: 182
- Total listens: 7057
- CDBaby website clicks: 11
- CDBaby referrals: 5
- CDBaby sales: Cosmic Garage (Sold 1 copies)
Friday Night Road Trip (Sold 2 copies)
The Pyramid Session Live (Sold 1 copies)
Tiny Sparkles (Sold 1 copies)
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