The Country Duo teams up with touring guests Kenny Roby & 6 String Drag (featuring Rob Keller and Jesse Aycock) at Kansas City's favorite neighborhood bar, Mike Kelly's Westsider, for an afternoon show from 2-5pm. $10 cover.
Kenny Roby has become quite adept at finding the quiet space between beauty and sadness in a song. From Roby’s earliest days as a musician fronting 6 String Drag, he was labeled an “old soul.” Someone who had lived count-less lives and regaled listeners with stories of those adventures. Or in another reality, Roby is the troubadour version of Hermes in Greek mythology (or Mercury in Roman tales), carrying souls to their final resting place, but learning some of their secrets along the journey and carrying their tales in his songs. While 2020’s The Reservoir was a confluence of ghosts thrust into a world of uncertainty, Kenny Roby emerged with a renewed sense of self. With the loss of longtime friend and collaborator, Neal Casal it would have been easy to tailspin and retreat to unhealthy habits. Instead, Roby once again found the beauty in sadness. He approached his sobriety with a new intensity and treasured the things Casal left be-hind. Even now, Casal’s spiritual connections continue to draw people into Roby’s or-bit which informs a new appreciation for the late musician’s legacy.
The Country Duo is Kansas City's Kasey Rausch and Marco Pascolini. Armed with acoustic and electric guitars, a pedal steel, and a passion for good ol' country music, you'll hear them play Rausch's original tunes as well as the classics from Patsy to Merle, Gram to Emmylou. Formed in 2015, the duo has played everywhere from The Station Inn in Nashville, TN, to the Mid-Coast Takeover in Austin, TX. Their debut EP was recorded live by invitation at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and was filmed for the Sun Studio Sessions television show that aired across the US and Canada on PBS. No Depression called Rausch’s vocals “tender and intuitive” and claimed Pascolini’s guitar playing “raises the stakes for everybody.” They have shared bills with Grammy winner Roland White, Ray Bonneville, Tish Hinojosa, William Elliot Whitmore, The Elders and many more.
