Specializing in quality roots and Americana music since 1978.

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Alan Kelly was born January 15, l952 in Springfield, Illinois. Raised in Minnesota, Missouri, and Illinois he transmigrated to Colorado in l971 and today lives in Elizabeth, CO on ten acres in the Black Forest, somewhere between Colorado Springs and Denver with his wife Sheila and two children.
Working in both Nashville and Colorado, Kelly's fifth album, "Quiet Lives of Consequence", features some of the best musicians in the country and carries forward with what is now his trademark. Small town America and its characters are wonderfully depicted in a series of touching portrayals that bring to life people we somehow already new.
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Available on Itunes:

Silverback (album)
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Selected Heartichokes (album)
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From his early years of performing in coffee houses and small stages to singing in church, Richard has always been a singer, songwriter, producer and artist.

While living in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1978 he won the Songwriter’s Showcase sponsored by the Muscle Shoals Music Association for his song “Sailor’s Dream”. 

In 1985, He became a producer/director for Mother Angelica’s Eternal Word Television Network. During his tenure at EWTN he produced and performed on the Christian Music program "Say Yes", with such guest as Phil Keaggy, Susan Ashton, Michael Card, Glad, Lenny LeBlanc, Kathy Troccoli, and many others. Along with George Vinson he had the opportunity to produce album projects for the Irish singer “DANA” for release here in America and in the UK for Scottish Television.

In 1995 He released the album “The Living Tree” under Rick Sutton for Needle Eye Records. The album received great reviews from The Birmingham News and was featured on the Heaven’s Eyes record label sampler. 

Richard plays solo and band performances at local events and venues. His band “liturgical autopsy” includes his 2 sons Jonathan and David as well as his Son-inLaw Jarrod Randall and has performed many local venues and been a part of the Magic City Blues Society events.

Born and raised in North Mississippi, the musical influences are obvious from the blue sound of “south ‘o town” to the blend of Memphis soul in “world gone crazy”. H. Richard sings about life and death and the struggle to live between the two.

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