The Kelele Brothers are a side project of Ron Sexsmith, Maury LaFoy, Tim Bovaconti, and Don Kerr (Sexsmith’s touring band), whose emphasis on the ukulele is paramount. While the ukulele may become lost among the group’s arrangements (each member is a multi-instrumentalist), the small, presumably koa wood instrument plays the thread of reason throughout the band’s catalog, even as the centerpiece of the band’s theme song, “Why Won’t ‘U’ Kelele?,” and their name. Each member operates under a pseud...
The Kelele Brothers are a side project of Ron Sexsmith, Maury LaFoy, Tim Bovaconti, and Don Kerr (Sexsmith’s touring band), whose emphasis on the ukulele is paramount. While the ukulele may become lost among the group’s arrangements (each member is a multi-instrumentalist), the small, presumably koa wood instrument plays the thread of reason throughout the band’s catalog, even as the centerpiece of the band’s theme song, “Why Won’t ‘U’ Kelele?,” and their name. Each member operates under a pseudonym (El Rondo, Mo Fuss La Fun, The Bover, and Don Kelele, respectively) and each has contributed as a songwriter to the Kelele Brothers’ cache of material, even though more obscure covers have been explored over the band’s two recordings than have originals. Recorded live with one microphone to mini-disc in 2001, the band’s first recording, Escape from Bover County, was made up of performances in a series of hotel rooms while the group was touring the United States as the opening guest on Lucinda Williams’ fall tour. It was released in 2002. The follow-up, Has-Beens & Wives, was recorded in a more traditional process at Kerr’s studio in Toronto, Ontario, and saw the shelves in 2004. On the two recordings, the group covers artists as diverse as Charlie Rich and Chuck Mangione. ~ Gregory McIntosh, All Music Guide Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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