KELLEE WEBB: Too Soon To Tell

Kellee Webb

Too Soon To Tell

© 2006 Kellee Webb

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A voice that is thick and sweet like home-spun honey with solid guitar work that is quick to change what you thought you knew about folk music and its many branches.

tracks

1 Raindance
2 Heart Breakin' Machine
3 Pat's Farewell
4 Costa Rica
5 Meant To Be
6 Hillary
7 Mosquito
8 God Willing
9 Laid
10 Leave Me Alone
11 Let Go
12 La Negra
13 Twilight

notes

Kellee Webb is a songwriter whose music coolly sways to the right and left of her folk artist ideals, from country and bluegrass to straight-up blues riffs. She mixes a voice that is thick and sweet like home-spun honey with solid guitar work that is quick to change what you thought you knew about folk music and its many branches.

Kellee has been a life-long musician, beginning with her introduction to the piano at 5 years of age. Around the same time, she started singing a wide range of songs with her parents in the Webb’s Baltimore home. They instilled a deep appreciation for music within their daughter from early on; Kellee was introduced to blues, rock, country, jazz, reggae, rap, folk, world music, and funk before she was 10 years old.

At 12, she took after her father (who has jammed alongside Buckwheat Zydeco) and picked up the guitar for the first time. After two years, Kellee started learning the bass guitar and joined her first band two weeks later. By 15, she had stopped playing piano to focus her full attention on guitar and bass, sang regularly and lived in Tennessee. Living in the South, it didn’t take long for Kellee to find strong country influences for her music, which are obvious in many of her tunes today. While attending high school, she took two semesters of private bluegrass guitar lessons with Jack Tottle at Eastern Tennessee State University and played guitar in one of ETSU’s bluegrass bands. In fact, Kellee appears in an article about the bands in Bluegrass Unlimited.

Throughout high school, Kellee played bass with a variety of rock bands and considered studying music in college. After a high school trip to colleges in New England, she decided that Berklee College of Music in Boston was where she should be. At 17, Kellee entered Berklee to study bass guitar. During her four years in college, she was able to study bass with funk bassist Anthony Vitti and took a stage performance course taught by Livingston Taylor. Outside of the classroom, Kellee played for many studio projects and local bands

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  • Not Your Average Girl with a Guitar!
    author: j. michael

    In a genre that is lacking in the vitality that brought it to it's popular peak in the 60's, Webb is one of the few artist creating music that is truly contemporary yet truly folk. With an intensity and focus reminisent of Richie Havens and Odetta, the sometimes innocent often wise spirit of Joni Mitchell and down to earth lyrics of classic country songs, Kellee Webb is now throw back... she is totally current! As a black woman wih a guitar the Tracy Chapman comparison is unavoidable but the melodies on "Too Soon To Tell" play more tribute to Nirvana and Hank Williams. She has clearly soaked up all the music she has experienced from Knoxville to Boston to the Middle East, ecclectic is the word here. Yet, "Too Soon To Tell" is consistant from head to toe. Webb is part of an exclusive group of innovators in current folk music that includes the like of Ani DiFranco and Richard Julian challenging the conventions of a music that has forgotten how to represent everyday "folk".

  • great singer - great song writer - the total folk package
    author: Karl Wilson

    Too Soon To Tell has a lot of great songs on it and no duds that make you want to skip ahead. Rain Dance and Leave Me Alone take the cake, showing the range of passion her voice can cover. It can't be long until this album gets the notice it's due.

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