Album Notes

Their name is pronounced "Keh-pah-no Green," and Kepano Green is the acoustic pop/rock duo of Paul Duncan and Josh Kauffman. Their original sound is a tight and powerful blend of soaring harmonies and inspiring musicianship.

Kepano Green was birthed out of the Chicago-land coffeehouse scene when Duncan and Kauffman began collaborating while attending Wheaton College. Their first album, recorded live in their senior year, sold out of its first printing within weeks of its release and earmarked Kepano Green as one of the best bands you may have never heard.

Since relocating to Los Angeles, Kepano Green has toured the country extensively and released 3 full length albums whose combined CD sales have surpassed 20,000 units sold independently at concerts and on-line at kepanogreen.com.

"Valley Drive, " the band's latest recording with indie label Interleague Records, was released at the beginning of 2005, and it received a boost when the first single, "Fall," was featured on TV's Boston Legal in 2006.

The album harkens back to KG's early college days of unplugged, impromptu performances in dorm room lobbies, their music ringing in the halls. Even though the full-band format of their previous album "Waiting For Daylight" was a critical success, Kauffman and Duncan have remembered their roots. With "Valley Drive" they've returned to what makes this band tick - the simple musical chemistry that happens when these two make music.

If you like the vocal blend of Simon and Garfunkel, John Mayer's guitar style, Guster's percussion driven energy, Elton John's piano work, or the Indigo Girls' songwriting, then you will probably like the music of Kepano Green.