Listen to my son's band- "SHADOWKAST"(recent winner of Florida "Battle of the Bands" held in Ft. Lauderdale, and my musical partner, the phenomenal vocalist, BROOKS HUNNICUTT right here. Just pause the Reverb Nation Player (upper right corner where my songs are playing and click play on the Myspace Player above. If you like what you hear, please send Anthony (SHADOWKAST) and BROOKS HUNNICUTT a Friend request add and tell them that I sent you. Thanks for listening :)) Robert
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The Great Beppe Gambetta and me at The Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival Oct 6, 2007 Photographed by Federica Gambetta
Awesome new Austin talent Sheila Harrison and me playing in Luckenbach Oct 19, 2007
My friend, the incredibly talented Susie Warley and me after playing in Luckenbach December 6, 2008. Watch for her 2nd, upcoming CD, "Naked Dreams" scheduled for release in January.
Inside the bar-Luckenbach, Texas
photography by my friend, AP photographer Jessica Rinaldi
I'm on the left playing guitar, Levi Darr-fiddle and Porfie Cantu-accordian
I am Italian/Welsh descended, and spent the first three years and eighteen summers of my life living with my loving, Italian immigrant, grandparents. This period was enjoyed with cousins and friends hiking, rock climbing, camping and exploring a virtual child's paradise in the
Allegheny Mountains in northwest Pennsylvania. My dad worked for Southern Railway and so I enjoyed traveling on a "free ride" every summer on trains to my grandparent's home. It was quite an adventure for a young boy and teenager and, I suspect, this may have jump started my lifelong wanderlust.
I lived with my mom and dad nine months each year in Atlanta, Georgia where I attended school, played all sports, learned to play guitar and counted each day until summer would come again and I could return to my beloved mountains.
I've traveled through every state in the union except Hawaii,the countries of Canada (all provinces and territories from the Yukon to Nova Scotia, including a wonderful stint as a photographer in Perce, Quebec on the Gaspe peninsula 600 miles north of Montreal, Canada. I climbed the 17,800+ ft. volcano Popocateptl and made an
attempt at 18,546 ft Orizaba. I was fortunate to have lived, literally, at the base of the Cholula Pyramid, which is larger in volume than the great pyramids of Egypt. The church that you see in the far distance was built atop the pyramid as a compromise to not destroy it. Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortez agreed to this as a favor to his Mistress and lover Cholulatecan Princess, Malinche. The pyramid's network of tunnels runs for miles throughout the area. It is truly a wonder to see. My home was across the railroad tracks at the foot of the stairs leading down from the church. My friend, Dawn (pic below) and I used to climb to the tops of many of the structures on evenings when there would be a full moon with our bottles of wine y la mota and I would get to just lie there and listen to her wonderful and always animated stories about the dynamic history of what transpired so many years ago. She was such an incredible guide :)) What a great time of my life that episode was.....Ah, to go back in time once more.
My friend Dawn Carver & me outside The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco *********************Once upon a time a girl with moonlight in her eyes
Put her hand in mine and said she loved me so
But that was once upon a time very long ago
Once upon a hill we sat beneath a willow tree
Counting all the stars and waiting for the dawn
But that was once upon a time, now the tree is gone
How the breeze ruffled through her hair
How we always laughed as though tomorrow wasn't there
We were young and didn't have a care
Where did it go?
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew
Everything was ours, how happy we were then
But somehow once upon a time never comes again************************************************************************************************************************************
I hiked and camped the ruins of Chichen Itza, Palenque, Monte Alban, Bonampak, Coba, Mitla, Teotihuacan, Uxmal, Tulum and other lesser sites. Mayan ruins at Tikal, Guatemala. Tikal is nestled deep in the jungle. Most people fly into the small airport but my friend and I took a small "people's" bus from Guatemala City. The trip took all day with many road checks by the army who was at war with Belize at the time. The trip was bizarre. An example was when I befriended a Guatemalan soldier who was armed and riding with us. We discussed military things and at one point he even gave me his machine gun to hold(probably NOT a part of his procedural rules and regulations). In fairness, like most countries, he was a young, un-educated, kid who had been conscripted into service and probably had no idea about the politics involved that had placed him there. Sounds familiar?
Belize (San Pedro and other Cayes), El Salvador; Honduras (Copan, other Mayan ruins, and many secluded villages).
I attended six different Universities including the University's of Alaska, Minnesota, Georgia, Colorado State and La Universidad de las Americas in Mexico earning M.A. and B.A. Degrees and I am a Viet-Nam era veteran. I've worked in a multitude of occupations such as: musician(guitarist, singer and song writer), oil & gas exploration promoter, lifeguard( actually helped save people without preaching), ranch hand(fed bulls and chickens), aerospace ground equipment operator and mechanic, asphalt layer(nastiest job on earth), house builder, carpet installer, personnel specialist, real estate investor(still fun), teacher, coach, principal, Nevada casino bouncer and briefly spent time with the Border Grizzly Project ear tagging grizzly bears with radio sensors in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in northwest Montana, grocery delivery boy, truck driver, artist/professional photographer, entrepreneur and probably several jobs that I don't recall as I am a child of the 60's.
Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse are my favorite authors. Wandering and rambling have always been a passion and there are many places I still want to see.
Anyone interested in knowing me should listen, view and read the songs, artwork, literature and history of some of my dear friends that I have listed here.
**************************************************
FAVORITE MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS. This list is NOT prioritized: Is your name here?
SHADOWKAST....my son's band. Anthony Kent, my son and my greatest inspiration.
Billy Jim Baker(a circus clown I never met but who's lyrics to "Contrary To Ordinary" pretty well sums up my life.),Jerry Jeff Walker, John Inmon(John I know that your new endeavors will turn out fantastic!),Tommy Emmanuel,Chet Atkins(RIP and may your music keep you alive forever), Eric Johnson, Bob Dylan, Jonny Lang, Doc Watson, Norman Blake,Pat Sky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Juan Gaspar, Gayle Roberts, Tom Knight, Steve Dethrow, Lowell Peabody, Anson Anderson, Grace Slick, Dion and the Belmonts, Dean Martin, John Denver, The Kingston Trio(thanks Bob Shane for the recording opportunity), John Fahey, Steve Kaufman(thanks Steve for playing my guitar at the 1999 Walnut Valley Festival and your tribute to Stuart...it meant a lot to me and his family), Beppe Gambetta, Pat Kirtley, Ricky Skaggs, Bryan Sutton, Leo Kottke- the man who taught me to finger pick,
Duane Allman & Johnny Cash R.I.P.( as a child, I used to visit Johnny's apartment on Saramac Drive in Atlanta, Ga.), Elvis Presley, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Jerry Garcia, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Hank Williams, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, ..************Kahlil Gibran, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogene Cunningham, Henry David Thoreau, Soren Kierkegaard, Robert Schuller(Thanks Reverand for all the positive inspiration), L. Ron Hubbard, John Steinbeck, Herman Hesse, Anthony Robbins, Eldridge Cleaver(Thanks E.C. "..make sure you are part of the solution and not the problem"), Jesse Jackson, Jackson Browne, Enrico Caruso, Mario Lanza, Julio Iglesias, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Lawrence Ferlinghetti(always remember the party in Mexico 1973), Pablo Neruda, Emiliano Zapata, Paulo Freiere, John Elway, Bill Mazeroski, Gandhi, Bill Mize, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson, Willis Alan Ramsey, George Thorogood, Carlos Santana, Steve Mesple, James Taylor,Dave Van Ronk(R.I.P.), Patrick Sky(thanks for putting us up in Greewich Village back in 66), Eric Andersen, Nanci Griffith, Collin Raye, Alan Jackson, Marty Robbins, Hal Ketchum, Mississippi John Hurt, John Prine, Ellen McIlwaine, Jeff Espina, Buddy Moss, Danny Smith, Florence Warner, Brooks Hunnicutt, Gene Brooks, Jay Hunter, Pat Simonson, B.B. King, Joni Mitchell, Tim McGraw,Adam Duritz, The Dixie Chicks, Chuck Pyle, New Grass Revival, Sam Bush, Wind Machine, Kevin Eubanks, Armik, Chico & the Gipsies, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Uncle Scrooge (they may be only comic book characters but they sure carried me with them on a lot of adventures when I was a child), The Branch and Zitterkopf families for always being there for me when I needed someone most, and last but not least--my wonderful friend, the late, great, guitar luthier, actor and Mark Twain impressionist Stuart Mossman.
The pic above is my lady "Cool Breeze" anchored in a remote area along the Baja coast in northern Mexico on The Sea of Cortez June 2006.
Movies
Television
TURN IT OFF!!!!! GET A REAL LIFE!!!!!
Books
Anything I can get my hands on but my favorite authors are Hess, Steinbeck, Michener, Chopra and Anthony Robbins.
ROBERT THORNTON KENT's Details
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Single
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Networking, Friends
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Straight
Hometown:
wherever there's music
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6' 2"
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White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Musician and Pilgrim
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Hi Robert, It's so many days since our last hello. What a lovely surprise to receive words from you. Thank you for your warm greeting. I hope all is well and life has you smiling. It sure is wonderful to get another earful of your music this morning... a wonderful start to my day.
Until next time... Wishing you the joys of the season, the company of good friends and family, and all the happiness on this Thanksgiving.
The new songs sound so wonderful. It's just WEIRD that you recorded White Freight Liner because we are recording that one as well. Ours is very different. It's bluegrass straight away...very fast.
youtube.com/suzioravec Hey! Thanks so much for your friendship:) You Rockkkkkkkk!! I was just out in L.A. and performed at the House of Blues. Check out the Video - hope you like it :) :) :) Any Fun Plans Lately? xoxo ~Suzi O I'm recording with Rodney Jerkins (Producer of Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Beyonce, and more! ) and also ROY THOMAS BAKER!! The producer of QUEEN, ROLLING STONES, and so many more rock bands its INSANE.) I'm sOoOo Excited! Can't wait 4 u 2 hear the new Album out!!
Love, I get so lost, sometimes Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart When I want to run away I drive off in my car But whichever way I go I come back to the place you are
Thanks so much for coming up to Wichita on Saturday, man! Great to see you - wish we could have visited a bit more. Perhaps a bit more ornery-ness next time ;)
Hi Robert...I enjoyed listening to your new songs. A cool & mellow rendition of "White Freightliner Blues." Sorry I missed you when you were passing through. I've been working on my Teacher Certification and did my last gig on Halloween. Gonna give it a rest to spend time with family and to write more songs! Hope your holidays are beautiful. Hugs, Susie
Hi dearest friend.
We've been on a holiday last week. We just needed to get away for a bit to change ideas. Our summer holidays weren't really great, lots of stress for work (yes, also during holidays), and then we had our cat who was ill from a very bad cancer, so we had to put her down. It was devastating for us, because she was our baby. We had adopted her from the street, so she was so special and thankful. Still now we can't believe she is no longer with us. Right after that, we literally ran away from home for 2 weeks to Scotland because we couldn't stand this empty house. We also played with John Jorgenson on 2 occasions: at the Tommy Emmanuel Guitar Festival in Rietberg/Germany and in Scotland. It could have been more, but we wanted ho stay with Mimi to give her all the love she needed in that time.
So now, we went to England for a few days, met up with some friends, and went to see Fleetwood Mac twice. They were soooo brilliant! A fantastic gig!
On Saturday we will go and see and meet up with Tommy Emmanuel. He is in Europe now, and we'll see him in The Netherlands, and in December Beppe Gambetta will be in the area, so we will go and see him also.
So great to hear that you travel a lot now and play so much. You are so right to do that, and we are really happy for you.
We send you big hugs, and lots of love.
Tania & Sandra
xxxxxx
The Great Beppe Gambetta and me at The Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival Oct 6, 2007 Photographed by Federica Gambetta
Awesome new Austin talent Sheila Harrison and me playing in Luckenbach Oct 19, 2007
My friend, the incredibly talented Susie Warley and me after playing in Luckenbach December 6, 2008. Watch for her 2nd, upcoming CD, "Naked Dreams" scheduled for release in January.
Inside the bar-Luckenbach, Texas
photography by my friend, AP photographer Jessica Rinaldi
I'm on the left playing guitar, Levi Darr-fiddle and Porfie Cantu-accordian
I am Italian/Welsh descended, and spent the first three years and eighteen summers of my life living with my loving, Italian immigrant, grandparents. This period was enjoyed with cousins and friends hiking, rock climbing, camping and exploring a virtual child's paradise in the
Allegheny Mountains in northwest Pennsylvania. My dad worked for Southern Railway and so I enjoyed traveling on a "free ride" every summer on trains to my grandparent's home. It was quite an adventure for a young boy and teenager and, I suspect, this may have jump started my lifelong wanderlust.
I lived with my mom and dad nine months each year in Atlanta, Georgia where I attended school, played all sports, learned to play guitar and counted each day until summer would come again and I could return to my beloved mountains.
I've traveled through every state in the union except Hawaii,the countries of Canada (all provinces and territories from the Yukon to Nova Scotia, including a wonderful stint as a photographer in Perce, Quebec on the Gaspe peninsula 600 miles north of Montreal, Canada. I climbed the 17,800+ ft. volcano Popocateptl and made an
attempt at 18,546 ft Orizaba. I was fortunate to have lived, literally, at the base of the Cholula Pyramid, which is larger in volume than the great pyramids of Egypt. The church that you see in the far distance was built atop the pyramid as a compromise to not destroy it. Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortez agreed to this as a favor to his Mistress and lover Cholulatecan Princess, Malinche. The pyramid's network of tunnels runs for miles throughout the area. It is truly a wonder to see. My home was across the railroad tracks at the foot of the stairs leading down from the church. My friend, Dawn (pic below) and I used to climb to the tops of many of the structures on evenings when there would be a full moon with our bottles of wine y la mota and I would get to just lie there and listen to her wonderful and always animated stories about the dynamic history of what transpired so many years ago. She was such an incredible guide :)) What a great time of my life that episode was.....Ah, to go back in time once more.
My friend Dawn Carver & me outside The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco *********************Once upon a time a girl with moonlight in her eyes
Put her hand in mine and said she loved me so
But that was once upon a time very long ago
Once upon a hill we sat beneath a willow tree
Counting all the stars and waiting for the dawn
But that was once upon a time, now the tree is gone
How the breeze ruffled through her hair
How we always laughed as though tomorrow wasn't there
We were young and didn't have a care
Where did it go?
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew
Everything was ours, how happy we were then
But somehow once upon a time never comes again************************************************************************************************************************************
I hiked and camped the ruins of Chichen Itza, Palenque, Monte Alban, Bonampak, Coba, Mitla, Teotihuacan, Uxmal, Tulum and other lesser sites. Mayan ruins at Tikal, Guatemala. Tikal is nestled deep in the jungle. Most people fly into the small airport but my friend and I took a small "people's" bus from Guatemala City. The trip took all day with many road checks by the army who was at war with Belize at the time. The trip was bizarre. An example was when I befriended a Guatemalan soldier who was armed and riding with us. We discussed military things and at one point he even gave me his machine gun to hold(probably NOT a part of his procedural rules and regulations). In fairness, like most countries, he was a young, un-educated, kid who had been conscripted into service and probably had no idea about the politics involved that had placed him there. Sounds familiar?
Belize (San Pedro and other Cayes), El Salvador; Honduras (Copan, other Mayan ruins, and many secluded villages).
I attended six different Universities including the University's of Alaska, Minnesota, Georgia, Colorado State and La Universidad de las Americas in Mexico earning M.A. and B.A. Degrees and I am a Viet-Nam era veteran. I've worked in a multitude of occupations such as: musician(guitarist, singer and song writer), oil & gas exploration promoter, lifeguard( actually helped save people without preaching), ranch hand(fed bulls and chickens), aerospace ground equipment operator and mechanic, asphalt layer(nastiest job on earth), house builder, carpet installer, personnel specialist, real estate investor(still fun), teacher, coach, principal, Nevada casino bouncer and briefly spent time with the Border Grizzly Project ear tagging grizzly bears with radio sensors in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in northwest Montana, grocery delivery boy, truck driver, artist/professional photographer, entrepreneur and probably several jobs that I don't recall as I am a child of the 60's.
Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse are my favorite authors. Wandering and rambling have always been a passion and there are many places I still want to see.
Anyone interested in knowing me should listen, view and read the songs, artwork, literature and history of some of my dear friends that I have listed here.
**************************************************
FAVORITE MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS. This list is NOT prioritized: Is your name here?
SHADOWKAST....my son's band. Anthony Kent, my son and my greatest inspiration.
Billy Jim Baker(a circus clown I never met but who's lyrics to "Contrary To Ordinary" pretty well sums up my life.),Jerry Jeff Walker, John Inmon(John I know that your new endeavors will turn out fantastic!),Tommy Emmanuel,Chet Atkins(RIP and may your music keep you alive forever), Eric Johnson, Bob Dylan, Jonny Lang, Doc Watson, Norman Blake,Pat Sky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Juan Gaspar, Gayle Roberts, Tom Knight, Steve Dethrow, Lowell Peabody, Anson Anderson, Grace Slick, Dion and the Belmonts, Dean Martin, John Denver, The Kingston Trio(thanks Bob Shane for the recording opportunity), John Fahey, Steve Kaufman(thanks Steve for playing my guitar at the 1999 Walnut Valley Festival and your tribute to Stuart...it meant a lot to me and his family), Beppe Gambetta, Pat Kirtley, Ricky Skaggs, Bryan Sutton, Leo Kottke- the man who taught me to finger pick,
Duane Allman & Johnny Cash R.I.P.( as a child, I used to visit Johnny's apartment on Saramac Drive in Atlanta, Ga.), Elvis Presley, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Jerry Garcia, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Hank Williams, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, ..************Kahlil Gibran, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogene Cunningham, Henry David Thoreau, Soren Kierkegaard, Robert Schuller(Thanks Reverand for all the positive inspiration), L. Ron Hubbard, John Steinbeck, Herman Hesse, Anthony Robbins, Eldridge Cleaver(Thanks E.C. "..make sure you are part of the solution and not the problem"), Jesse Jackson, Jackson Browne, Enrico Caruso, Mario Lanza, Julio Iglesias, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Lawrence Ferlinghetti(always remember the party in Mexico 1973), Pablo Neruda, Emiliano Zapata, Paulo Freiere, John Elway, Bill Mazeroski, Gandhi, Bill Mize, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson, Willis Alan Ramsey, George Thorogood, Carlos Santana, Steve Mesple, James Taylor,Dave Van Ronk(R.I.P.), Patrick Sky(thanks for putting us up in Greewich Village back in 66), Eric Andersen, Nanci Griffith, Collin Raye, Alan Jackson, Marty Robbins, Hal Ketchum, Mississippi John Hurt, John Prine, Ellen McIlwaine, Jeff Espina, Buddy Moss, Danny Smith, Florence Warner, Brooks Hunnicutt, Gene Brooks, Jay Hunter, Pat Simonson, B.B. King, Joni Mitchell, Tim McGraw,Adam Duritz, The Dixie Chicks, Chuck Pyle, New Grass Revival, Sam Bush, Wind Machine, Kevin Eubanks, Armik, Chico & the Gipsies, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Uncle Scrooge (they may be only comic book characters but they sure carried me with them on a lot of adventures when I was a child), The Branch and Zitterkopf families for always being there for me when I needed someone most, and last but not least--my wonderful friend, the late, great, guitar luthier, actor and Mark Twain impressionist Stuart Mossman.
The pic above is my lady "Cool Breeze" anchored in a remote area along the Baja coast in northern Mexico on The Sea of Cortez June 2006.
