Every good music scene needs an artist like Kerry Melonson. A lifelong Houstonian, Melonson is a veteran singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music entrepreneur, idea person and fly in the ointment. He’s a risk taker, music scene surveyor and bullshit caller. And, of course, he does it all for the sake of the...
. A lifelong Houstonian, Melonson is a veteran singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music entrepreneur, idea person and fly in the ointment. He’s a risk taker, music scene surveyor and bullshit caller. And, of course, he does it all for the sake of the music.
He’s taken on other artists, show promoters and area venues. To get his music to people he’s all but eschewed the traditional music venue, choosing to build a fan base beyond city limits via the Internet with projects like De-mix/Un-mix, a long form music Web series, or posting to The Trip Channel onor curating an upcoming TikTok series where he’ll attempt to release 100 new songs in 100 days.
“I grew up and country music was like, ‘Ugh.’ I mean my family’s Black so they were like, ‘Ugh. That’s all there was to listen to when we were really little kids.’ My parents were born in the ‘50s, at the beginning of the ‘50s. They were like, yeah, we know all that stuff and we don’t want to hear it, that’s the only music we could listen to on the radio,” he related. “So, I had this barrier. Oh man, country music, this is music I didn’t want to hear, no matter what.
“Stuff happens, I got two kids,” he said. “I mean, I could still do all these things but for a minute I shifted my attention so I figured I’d try to be a good dad, or the best that I can be. I wanna earn that World’s Greatest Dad T-shirt. I don’t want somebody to just give it to me.” “You have to just be nice and roll with it and that way a gatekeeper or a venue or someone on a festival will go ‘Hey, come on in, you’re a nice person,’ but, that doesn’t make for a great show,” he added. “Down here on the street level it’s just so sad where it’s like wait, these are all musicians and you claim to be supporting the music scene with what you do here and it seems to be hurting the quality of music.
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