Bob Harris Country - Kevin Welch in session

Respected Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch talks to Bob and plays songs from his new solo album 'A Patch of Blue Sky'. Kevin Welch grew up in Oklahoma. He had already toured as a teenager with several bands before he moved to Nashville in 1978 to work as a songwriter. Over the next several years his songs were recorded by many of Nashville's biggest artists including Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. At the same time he was performing in Nashville clubs and bars, and in 1988 he signed a record contract with Warner Brothers, and started releasing albums in the early 90s. In 2004 he teamed up with singer-songwriter Kieran Kane and multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplin to record the album You Can't Save Everybody. The trio followed this up with Lost John Dean in 2006, which reached number one on the Americana charts, gaining nominations for several awards including Duo/Group of the year at the 2006 Americana Awards. Their next album Kane Welch Kaplin was also nominated for Duo/Group. In the spring of 2008 Kevin left Nashville for Austin Texas where he joined with fellow musicians Jimmy LaFave, Sam Baker, Slaid Cleaves and John Fullbright to launch Music Road Records, and self-produced his first solo record in eight years, A Patch of Blue Sky.