Glen McKenzie and the Road Kings
Roots rock, country rock, southern rock, classic rock, blues rock. Lots of guitars. 60's, 70's style music. Fender, Gibson, Marshall, Motorcycles, Cars, Girls.
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Little Crunchy Little Crunchy
The most accurate description of Glen McKenzie and the Road Kings is Roots Rock and Roll all the way! Slashing guitars and big drums! Songs about life, love, cars, bars, motorcyles, girls, politics and guitars...what else is there? Glen's vocals swing from growling and sultry to soaring and satisfied. Modern stylings meet Rock, Classic Rock, Southern Rock, Country and Blues.Band/artist history
In Glen's own words:
I grew up listening to Rock and Roll 45's on a mono record player, ya know, the kind in the little suitcase? My parents were into Elvis, Johnny Cash, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Country music of all sorts and they played that on their big ol' Zenith HiFi Stereo, bigger than some houses. I eventually graduated to my Uncle Bill's hand-me-down Portable Stereo record player. I'm not sure why they called it "portable" as it was pretty big. It was pretty cool though...green tolex and brown speaker grills. The speakers were of course detatchable and I could spread them way apart and get the ultimate seperation on my 45's and eventually my first real LP's that I bought with my own money. My first "album" I got for my birthday was The Isley Brothers. Then I bought the Animals - Animalism. Then the ultimate...The Beatles - Hey Jude! Man, I listened to that record over and over and over. On occasion my parents would have their friends over for dinner and drinks and they would listen to the grown up music on the hifi and sometimes they would let me play my Beatles records on it while they were in the room...wow!
I think my sound is mostly influenced by the Beatles (who isn't?), The Rolling Stones, Cream, Dwight Yoakam, ZZ Top, Johnny Cash, Steve Cropper, Grand Funk, Chris Isaak...the list goes on. I just try to focus on making songs that you can tap your foot to, that make you smile, or make you think, or all of the above. What I do is raw, and real, and I think that you can feel that. I don't hear a lot of stuff anymore that I can say that about. Every now and then I get to hear a Lucinda Williams or Dwight Yoakam CD that hits me that way. "Kompressor" is my first release and I really think your gonna love this CD as much as I loved making it!Your musical influences
The Beatles (of course), The Rolling Stones (duh!), Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Uncle Tupelo, Elvis, Chris Isaak, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, The Faces, Little Feat, Dan Baird, ACDC, ZZ Top, Allmans, EC, Cream, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Bob Dylan...just too damn many to mention all of them.What equipment do you use?
I like really simple guitars and amps, the classics. Fender Deluxe, Vox AC15, Fender BF Champ. I also like Telecasters and Stratocasters and also have a Guild Starfire III with Alnico/Pearly Gates combination. I also love Rio Grande pickups, especially the single coil variety. A Fender P-Bass is hard to beat but I picked up a cheap Rogue Beatle style bass(Hofner copy) that sounds unbelievably good, especially after I put Tomastik flatwounds on it.
Springfield, MO
USA
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657505
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