Hometown: Chicago via Atlanta US

Kelly was born and raised in Atlanta where her dad is a policeman and her mom can make a pickle out of anything. She got ants in her pants and moved to Chicago in 1997. She likes the crazy-looking, free-wheeling senior citizens walking around in sneakers on the streets here, unmolested. It gives her hopeful feelings for her future.

She's been singing as long as she can remember. Her brother used to punch her in the arm for constantly harmonizing with the radio, yet she could not put a sock in it.

She's been in lots of bands in Atlanta. The most fancy ones would be The Jody Grind and The Rock*A*Teens. If you don't like her singing (is such a thing possible?), then let her pour you a drink in her role as bartender at the Hideout.

Representative Quote: "Did you see what Augie just did?"

Compilation Tracks:

"Last Thing On My Mind" on The Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook, Volumes Two and Three

"Big Iron" on Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Heart Attack

"Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" w/ Jon Rauhouse on the DVD Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records' Life In The Trenches

"Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" w/ Jon Rauhouse performed live on the Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records' Life In The Trenches Soundtrack

"Right or Wrong" on Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson

"Smoke Rings" and "Prisoner of Love" on Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Rodeo

"Green, Green Grass of Home" on the Pine Valley Cosmonauts' The Executioner's Last Songs: Volumes 2&3

"Drunkard's Blues" on the Pine Valley Cosmonauts' Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills

"Someone Like You" on Poor Little Knitter on the Road

"13 Nights" on Down to the Promised Land

"Pale Blue Eyes" duet w/ Alejandro Escovedo on his Bourbonitis Blues

"Senor Don Gato" and "Rubber Duckie" on The Bottle Let Me Down

"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" on Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Air Show

"1,000,001," "Hanky Panky Woman," and "It's Only Make Believe" (duet w/ John Wesley Harding) on Making Singles, Drinking Doubles

"Chicken Road" with The Wooden Leg on For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records