Guitarist and songwriter
Kelly Joe Phelps has always traveled an iconoclastic, enigmatic path. Since the release of his debut album,
Lead Me On in 1995 on the tiny Burnside imprint, through his amazing Rykodisc recordings from the late part of that decade and the middle of the first part of this century, he's wound his way through covers and his own songs with a particular sense of place and rough-hewn elegance.
Western Bell is
Phelps' first record since 2006, issued on the Vancouver indie Black Hen Music.