Kelly Willis

   
Artist: Kelly Willis

   Genre(s): 
Country
   

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Discography:


   
 Translated from Love

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Easy

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 What I Deserve

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Fading Fast

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Kelly Willis

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10

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Although the function of new diehard singer/songwriter Kelly Willis earned far-flung critical acclaim, she institute slight in the way of comparable commercial success; her sound, a sassy hybrid of Born in Oklahoma and brocaded in the Washington, D.C., area, she began playacting in her young man (and future husband) Mas Palermo's band at the age of 16. Her powerhouse vocals were so popular with golf club audiences that presently the mathematical group was renamed Kelly & the Fireballs in her honor. After Willis gradational high school, the Austin, TX, only to break up vI months later.


As a answer, Willis began learning to diddle guitar spell drummer Palermo honed his songwriting chops. The duet started a new band, Radio Ranch, with guitarist David Murray, brand player Michael Hardwick, and bassist Michael Foreman. One of Radio Ranch's performances so impressed isaac M. Singer Nanci Griffith that she began lobbying her tag, MCA, to sign to radical, leading to Willis' 1990 debut, Well-Travelled Love. In an attack to capitalize on Willis' stunning looks, she was marketed as a girl-next-door type, and disdain the presence of the good ring, just her name appeared on the record album jacket. Despite the radiance reviews, the LP fared under the weather; and so, for her 1991 sophomore feat, Spang Bang, she was depicted as a coquettish pinup. Again, however, the beneficial publicity the record received did non translate to wireless airplay, let unequalled graph gross sales.


For her third gear album, comprised for the most part of her have songs, Willis coupled forces with pop producer Don Was; the self-titled 1993 sweat suffered the same fate as its predecessors, however, and she was dropped by MCA presently after its release. Following a few age of relation inactivity, she resurfaced in 1995 duetting with Son Volt's Jay Farrar on the Red Hot & Bothered compilation, and after issue a 1996 self-governing label EP, Attenuation Fast, announced plans for a 1997 LP on A&M. In late 1996, she matrimonial fellow Austin musician Bruce Robison.


Spell the '90s drew to a close, Willis inked a care with Rykodisc. Her quarter album, What I Deserve, appeared in 1999 and it was a breakthrough hit for Willis. Time Magazine hailed the album as "the smartest, most consistently worthwhile land CD" to have been released that year. Three long time by and by, Willis returned to the scene with Easy, which included collaborative efforts with Vince Gill, Union Station's Dan Tyminski, and Nickel Creek's Chris Thile. Willis tossed her chapeau into the crowded noel view in 2006 with the amiable Glad Holidays, followed by her seventh album, the Chuck Prophet-produced Translated from Love in 2007.