Kelley signs with Mountain Fever
Kelley will begin work immediately on her debut album for the label with an expected release date of early spring 2016.
A native of Latrobe, Pa., Kelley independently releasing two records. Kelley also scored cuts with Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Loretta Lynn, Pat Green, Brother Phelps, Rhonda Vincent, Claire Lynch, Darrell Scott, The Whites and the Osborne Brothers.
"I am so proud to be signing to Mountain Fever Records for my next bluegrass release with Mark Hodges at the helm," she said. "Mark's passion, support, knowledge and down to earth approach is truly what the genre is all about."
Kelley will begin recording her debut album for Mountain Fever this winter with producer Mark Fain at the helm. A single will be released early 2016.
CD reviews for Irene Kelley
There's a well-worn adage that goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But in a "throwaway" age where even big screen TVs head for the landfills at the first sign of breakdown, it's hard to recall, if you're old enough to recall it at all, that it used to be you could take the old Philco down to a shop like the one Irene Kelley's dad ran in her hometown of Latrobe, Pa., get a few tubes swapped out and have it back in time for the Steelers game, good as new. ...
Irene Kelley has created a bluegrass record, which seems just right -
well-conceived with outstanding songwriting and singing and powerful musicianship.
From the trickle down banjo run which introduces "Carolina Wind" to the soulful mountain vibe which exemplifies the final cut, "Before You Call Me Home," Kelley makes a case for the currency and relevance of bluegrass music in 2016. Kelley's voice is true and the song-writing never falters. She has written songs for ...
The longstanding joke, usually told by Keystone State residents themselves, is that Pennsylvania is "Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other, and Kentucky in between." It's usually intended as a political commentary, but in the case of Pennsylvania native Irene Kelley, there's a musical context as well as a family history. The century-old photograph on the back of her new release features a group of Pennsylvania coal miners, one of whom is her grandfather. ...
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