Thanks to all the following people for their contributions in the studio and on stage: Jacob Detering, R. Scott Bryan, Joe Meyer, Lauren Markow, Ken Zarecki, Alan Copeland Photography (press kit), Crystal Rolfe (myspace photo), + Mom and Dad
Influences
FM radio, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, The Clash, JJ Cale, John Hiatt, Tom Petty, John Prine, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Westerberg, Neil Finn, The Minutemen, The Pixies, Michelle Shocked, Robert Hunter, Bob Mould, and everyone else who ever wrote songs that I couldn't get out of my head.
“I was a writer first. I didn’t know I wanted to sing until I started putting my words to music,” says Bilchik, of St. Louis, Missouri. Blending rock and contemporary folk, his words and music offer a personal perspective with wide appeal. “When I perform my songs, it’s like taking a tour of what I’ve learned about life in the past 10 years. Every time I play, it’s a reminder that your whole life comes along with you wherever you go. You can’t run away from it. I’m hoping that people who hear my music feel that I’ve said something they’ve been thinking about, too.”
Kevin’s life path swerved significantly from the expected. “Like a lot of people, I knew there was something out there for me, but I didn’t know what or where it was,” he says. “That’s when I started taking my own route. I caught rides to random places out West. I followed bands around on festival tours. I apprenticed in non-traditional jobs and lived in unconventional communities. Those times and places and people led me to some of the ideas and lessons that drive my songs today.”
But there was always a guitar, he adds. “As a little kid, I took about two piano lessons before I quit, and I played the trombone for a couple of days. But I grabbed a guitar whenever things were uncomfortable socially, or when nothing was happening. So there was always the opportunity to channel my experiences into a song.” And he did. “I’ve spent the past 16 years finding my voice as a singer and writer, playing music on back porches, in basements, coffee houses and bars, working restaurant jobs, and writing lyrics on napkins and take-out order forms.”
A chance meeting in a St. Louis guitar shop jump-started Kevin’s official music career. “The people I met that day are still some of my best friends, collaborators and critics,” he says. “And I still look at every day as another chance to pick up my guitar and see what happens.”
Archfront Media Presents A Local Music Showcase Operator 303, About Last Night, Seven Inside, No Solution, Linn Creek, Pop’s www.popsrocks.com 1405 Mississippi Ave. Sauget, IL 62201 (618) 274-6720 $7.00 + ($2.00 minor surcharge)
heya cheers for being friends with us have a listen to our stuff maybe? And beware its swamp donkey season and they are all out and about. Peace and love
8/22/2009 7:00 PM at Fubar 3108 Locust, St Louis, Missouri 63101 Cost: $8
This is going to be a great night. The show starts at 5:00. We'll go on later around 7:00 maybe. We won't know until the show date exactly what order the bands will play. There will be a lot of great bands to see and we'll be there too. Tell the door guy at the Fubar that you are there at our invitation (or we don't get credit for bringing friends which is the name of the game)...
We continue to book shows. The next event will be fun and crazy stuff at Broadway Bistro Zoo on September 12th. Fun and sexy adult entertainment. More info to follow shortly.
NEW TRACKS POSTED!!! BRAND NEW SONGS!!! Hear what we have been doing in the studio. The rest are being tracked. Tell us what you think. Tell your friends. Thanks for the ad.
Have you been to www.CultureSurfer.com yet? Why not?! St. Louis producer Naomi Silver is the ONLY ONE in St.Louis doing this- an online inside to the REAL local arts scene! I’m often shocked at how little people know about St Louis’ great local fine arts, and how little our local press covers the real local events- they all pretend to care about, but do little to support it. For that matter, I see very few of our local art galleries getting behind this, which blows my mind. Listen up local artists, galleries, and art institutions: someone really cares about us now- SPREAD THE WORD.
“I was a writer first. I didn’t know I wanted to sing until I started putting my words to music,” says Bilchik, of St. Louis, Missouri. Blending rock and contemporary folk, his words and music offer a personal perspective with wide appeal. “When I perform my songs, it’s like taking a tour of what I’ve learned about life in the past 10 years. Every time I play, it’s a reminder that your whole life comes along with you wherever you go. You can’t run away from it. I’m hoping that people who hear my music feel that I’ve said something they’ve been thinking about, too.”
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