Kevin Fowler signs with Lyric Street
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 – Texas singer Kevin Fowler signed with Lyric Street after releasing two albums on the defunct Equity Records label.
A native of Amarillo, Texas, Fowler learned how to play guitar in Los Angeles and later was guitarist for rock group Dangerous Toys before forming his own rock outfit Thunderfoot. He later left rock for country, releasing several albums on his own, including his debut "Beer, Bait and Ammo," which sold about 30,000 units. He put "Loose, Loud & Crazy" in 2004 for Equity and "Bring It On" in 2007. Fowler also has earned songwriting credits with Montgomery Gentry's recording Long Line Of Losers and George Jones' take on Beer, Bait And Ammo.
Fowler's first music on Lyric Street Records is expected this spring.
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Kevin Fowler is a bit of a country music conundrum. Although the Texas-based singer enjoys a large and loyal regional following and has an excellent track record of solid studio albums and high-energy performances, he hasn't been able to make the leap to mainstream country music stardom.
One of Fowler's biggest challenges is balancing the music to both please his hardcore Texas following while also delivering songs that make country music radio decision makers take notice. ...
Kevin Fowler makes no bones about being country, nor about being Texas. Indeed, the Amarillo-raised, Austin-based singer-songwriter's third self-released album hollers "Texas" from the first glance at the cover artwork - a no-nonsense portrait of a cowboy at home on the ranch, leaning on a posting, pickin' on the back porch with a dog at his feet, and standing alone on a wild-west dirt road, outside the general store, taking in the red Texas sunset sky.
And so it goes on an unbowingly country ...
Kevin Fowler's second self-release is an interesting if not entirely congruous mix of stuff, all of it written by Fowler and delivered by a singing voice with a pleasing raggedness that he occasionally overuses. There's unabashed honky-tonk along the lines of the lively two-stepper "I Found Out the Hard Way," "Hellbent For a Heartache" and "Butterbean," the sort of western swing take that wouldn't sound out of place on a George Strait record.
Then there are slower ballads like "Penny For Your ...
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