Album 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