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Thursday August 27
=95 8P Kenny Roby (rock/folk rock/pop)
In the mid to late 90=92s, as a founding member of the band Six String
Drag, Kenny Roby established himself as one of the main songwriting
forces behind the Americana/Roots Rock movement. Six String Drag
played a major role in the early success of Steve Earle and Jack
Emerson=92s E Squared label. Roby and his band toured nationally with
Earle and other acts and also gained a strong following on the east
coast and the midwest. The band was featured on the soundtrack to the
Grammy nominated film You Can Count On Me and garnered much critical
acclaim for their E Squared release High Hat. In 1998 the band broke
up and Roby continued with a solo career releasing two more critically
acclaimed albums Mercury=92s Blues and Rather Not Know. Roby=92s writing
and singing have been praised by Billboard, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
The Boston Phoenix, The Washington Post, Option, No Depression,
Performing Songwriter and many other publications. Kenny has also been
featured on NPR=92s All Songs Considered and Acoustic Cafe and has
received extensive national airplay on NPR, Americana and AAA radio
stations. Ryan Adams has claimed Roby as as an influential writer on
his and his former band Whiskeytown=92s music. Adams featured Roby=92s
song Rather Not Know on NPR=92s All Songs Considered in 2004. (in a
segment called You Play the Dj: Artist=92s Picks) As well, Adams
recently mentioned Roby in Rolling Stone as the best songwriter that
not many people have heard of.

=95 10P Shawn Luby of Humble Tripe (americana/country/bluegrass)

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