Kelly's Lot was formed in 1994 by Kelly Zirbes, a folk singer/songwriter with a heart for the blues. With 15 CDs and lots of touring in the USA and Europe, the band celebrates 28 years since the first night the band hit the stage at the Roxy in Hollywood. Kelly Z met guitar player and soundman, Perry Robertson in 1996, who soon after produced ‘Kelly’s Lot - Live at the Troubadour’. Within a year he joined the band, started writing songs with Kelly Z and added the southern rock and Texas influences that have helped shape the Kelly's Lot sound. In the last 15 years they have played and toured as a Duo, Trio and a 5 piece band, while adding horns, keys and harmonica at different times. Some of the larger festivals they have played are Waterfront Blues Festival, Simi Valley Cajun and Blues Festival, Nuits de Sologne and Lavaudieu Music Festival. Their songs have been heard in movies and television and covered by other artists. Perry has recorded and produced most of the band’s music including the 2019 release 'Can't Take My Soul’ which brought the Duo back to it's Folk/Rock roots. They recorded 2 more albums during the 2020/21 pandemic. ‘ANOTHER SKY’ which features a variety of Americana genres including the folk song 'Foolish Try' which was placed in the new Ghostbusters movie Afterlife. And ‘WHERE AND WHEN’ which took the Duo back to the Blues in a LIVE and acoustic fashion.  Kelly and Perry hit the road in August of 2023 and brought their Americana music to folks in France and Croatia and plan on returning there on a tour next year. Kelly Z recently released a single with keyboard player/singer Mo Beeks called 'I Gotta Sing The Blues' and is busy with Perry writing and recording a new Kelly's Lot album for an early 2024 release. Stay tuned, we are just getting started after 29 years.

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New Orleans independent songwriter Jack Strange offers a rich catalog of original AI-free progressive folk-rock songs, blending decades of rock, folk, and alternative influences. Strange's albums include “Blood on the Neutral Ground" released in September 2025, as well as "Still Alone" (2000), "Heartbeat" (2002), "Ever Laughter" (2003), the post-Katrina EP "Back in New Orleans" (2009), and a new home studio album projected for release in February 2026. 

All Strange songs are written, composed, and arranged by Jack Morris, except William Shakespeare wrote the lyrics in "Sylvia Who" (1589), and William Blake wrote the lyrics in "Tyger" (1794).

All Strange songs are performed by Jack Morris, with special guests the Morris Family Chorus performing on "Peace and Joy," featuring Beckham Breaux, Theresa Ocampo,  Payton Morris, Everett Breaux, Jordan Morris, Nora Ocampo, and Marigny Breaux, and Nora Kate Ocampo performing backup vocals on “Love Haunt.”

"Neutral Ground" cover art photo courtesy of Stacey Morris Breaux.

"Back in New Orleans" cover art courtesy of Joshua Breaux.

All Strange recordings are produced by Jack Morris.

All Strange songs are available for licensing for publication, performance, and commercial use.

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Strange also is the author of "Would-Be Poems" (2025) and "Snake Tales" (2020). 

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Jack Strange does not exist. He and his musical and literary works are products of a human imagination. Any resemblance to natural or artificial persons, living, dead, or electronic, or to analog or digital musical or literary works, is entirely coincidental.

Scottish Singer-Song Writer, Terry Mac & The Order/Lotus Crush/ Ex-Driveblind. Terry McDermott arrived in the US from Aberdeen Scotland in 2003, with Driveblind, signing to A&M Records with label president Ron Fair. Fair moved to Geffen Records taking Driveblind with him. The Scottish six-piece released on Geffen in 2006. After Driveblind disbanded, McDermott formed Lotus Crush with friend Peter Klett, founding and former member of Candlebox. Lotus Crush released "Half Light Morning" in 2011. Terry McDermott & The Bonfires released "Palmetto Heights EP" through Fat Hippy Records in June 2013, touring the UK that summer followed by single and video "Hi Stepping", released Jan 2014. Lotus Crush returned with "Rabbit Hole" released in the US in 2015. McDermott and the band have enjoyed extensive touring throughout the US and Europe and will release "Rabbit Hole Deluxe" in the UK and Europe in 2017. Solo single 'Lost Again' arrives September 2016. McDermott began work on ‘Terry Mac & The Order’ in 2019. A project/band with fellow New Orleans based musicians Georgi Petrov (Bulgarian jazz virtuoso) and Dave Shirley (drummer for Sweet Crude). 
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