Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and more recently Bruce Cockburn, John Butler, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, and Luke Hurley, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Gillian Welsh, Nick Drake, Tommy, SJD,
Sounds Like
Oh, this is too difficult. Just have a listen and make up your own mind!
Simon Kerr has his main web site located at www.simonkerrmusic.net and also his old band site of www.myspace.com/simonkerrtheacousticjunkies. This present site is mainly here to provide a link to these other sites.
Songwriter Simon Kerr creates a stirring and captivating hybrid of folk-roots, alt-pop, reggae and world music full of intelligence, energy and beauty.
He once lived and played in the Christchurch, NZ, before moving to the deep south to Dunedin and then, in late 2007, to that small Australian Village of Melbourne.
He is a self-confessed late starter, only taking up performing in his late thirties, and has now played gigs into the hundreds, from folk clubs and house concerts to music festivals and dodgy pubs in NZ and Australia.
He released his debut album last year, Voyager, with his band, Simon Kerr & the Acoustic Junkies' and it has been played on Radio in NZ, the USA and Canada.
Simon plays songs that he makes up; nothing bought from a record shop. A mix of folk, roots, alt. pop, reggae, and world music (strange tunings on the 12 string), it is fiercely intelligent (he is a trained social scientist), full of compassion (he is an empathetic human being) and laced with humour (he is a Kiwi living among Australians).
Variously described as ‘The Pink Floyd of folk music’,
‘The thinking person’s rock music’,
‘One of Dunedin's best’,
‘A prolific songwriter with power and grace’
See Simon's website www.simonkerrmusic.net
Also see Simon's other MySpace site, www.myspace.com/simonkerrtheacousticjunkies
