Keith Bailey

Artist Information

Biography

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Keith Alan Bailey was born in Paducah, Kentucky on Sunday September 20, 1953 to Jewell and Loretta Bailey. The number one hit single on that day was Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You) by the great Les Paul & Mary Ford.
He was the firstborn of three sons. Although neither of his parents were musically inclined, Keith took an interest in songwriting at an early age. As a young teenager, when most people were still in bed, he was coming up with song lyrics while delivering newspapers on his bicycle at 4AM.
When Keith was about 14, he was invited to an outing at Echo Valley with the Good News Club. Then began a life-long friendship with Mr. Ben Johnson, who he considered to be his closest adult friend and mentor. Through encouragement from Mr. Johnson, Keith helped maintain Camp Echo Valley and subsequently joined the Good News Choral, a singing group and local affiliate of Youth for Christ and Campus Crusade for Christ. They sang many concerts throughout the southeastern United States. He was also very active in the Youth for Christ and the Campus Crusade for Christ organizations themselves, attending many of the summer conferences held in Takoa Falls and Jekyl Island, Georgia. Even after the unfortunate disbanding of the Good News Club due to the untimely death of its leader and Keith’s personal friend and mentor, Mr. Ben Johnson, Keith stayed active in Youth for Christ, attending conferences with a Memphis, Tennessee church. Mr. Johnson was so influential in Keith’s early Christian walk that he dedicated a song to him named “Old Ben Johnson” or “Roses Always Bloom in the Spring Time.”
After graduating from high school, he attended Murray State University with his best friend, Barry Ralph, and subsequently joined the armed forces with Barry’s brother Alan, fully expecting to go to Vietnam. However, it wasn’t in God’s plans for him to go to Vietnam as the war ended 6 days after he joined. While in the army, Keith was offered a position as a presidential aide, but because he wanted to get back to college and would have to extend another year, he turned it down. At this point, the army sent him to Redstone Arsenal and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama to train for a year to repair radars. After his training, his orders sent him to Key West, Florida to the Naval Air Station there, where at age 21, he picked up his first guitar.
(MY TRUE RACOON ENCOUNTER in the Florida Keys THAT MADE ME START PLAYING GUITAR) One fateful night, about a month after his 21st birthday, he and his friends gathered on an old wooden bridge on old, old A1A on Sugarloaf Key. A full moon was shinning as they sat on the bridge playing their guitars softly into the wee hours of the morning. As Keith sat listening to them play, all of the sudden he noticed a dark figure coming out of the underbrush about 25 feet away. As it got closer, the full moon revealed a raccoon which came up and settled down just a few feet from Keith, apparently to listen as well. Keith thought, wow, this cool night breeze feels great. It must feel good to him too, and I bet the soft music is pleasant to him as well. Harsh music, I’m sure, would startle him. I guess music really is a universal language, an epiphany. It so inspired Keith, he decided he must learn to play guitar too. He has been playing, singing, and writing ever since. With a catalog of nearly 100 songs, he primarily writes and plays acoustic Americana and country songs, many of which are Christian or have Christian overtones. He has played in many coffee houses and several churches over the years.
Some of his other experiences include jobs as a radio disc jockey for WKMS FM when he was a radio TV production major at MSU, working as an air traffic controller in Miami, being a movie projectionist at a drive-in theatre as well as serving as a carnival ride operator. These, amon

Instrumentation

keith bailey--acoustic/electricguitar,
keyboards,alto saxophone / C melody saxophone
lead/backup vocals
http://www.myspace.com/keithbaileymusic
Also check out my good friend Mitch Barrett @ sonicbids.com/mitchbarrett
****“Congratulations to 2009 Telluride Troubadour winner Mitch Barrett.
Mitch's performance of his song "Drop in the Bucket" on Saturday evening - with special guests Sam Bush and backup vocals from all the Troubadour finalists - was one of those unforgettable Telluride moments.” - - Planet Bluegrass

Discography

3-22-2011
I have tried to train myself to be able to write upon demand, as I have seen this as an ability common to many of nashville's best. Leonard Berstein, once told a friend of mine "That most anyone can perform on any given Sunday, but it takes a professional and dedication to be able to perform on demand." He said this to my friend, Mitchell Tolle the watercolor artist, after Mitchell asked him how he was able to make his performance sound so good every night, didn't Mr. Berstein have nights that he didn't feel up to it. With the above said, our work is as nothing, if our heart and soul is not there, but without the perspiration and hard work, inspiration is nothing but a word upon a page.
thanks keith
MY SONG TITLE LIST-----All songs copyright Keith Bailey***songs with copyright dated have been written since September of 2007
Keith�s Song Title portfolio
Recent Songs-Since 2-1-2010
a) The Driftwood Lullaby
b) Living as The Walking Dead
c) More Precious Than Gold
d) I Give You all That I Don't Have
e) Comic Book Or Fairy Tale
f) You Say You Want Me, Just Not Now
g) Faith Is Key
h) At the speed Of fright
i) Yoplait Jingle #1 wife/mother
j) Yoplait Jingle #2 single working female
k) Leave a Legacy, Not a Past
L) Hear the Snowfall?
1) Freely Ask**
2) You�ve Been Wrong All Along**
3) Don�t Walk Away**
4) The Grandparents Song**
5) Anytime...Anywhere**
6) Walk on the Waters**
7) Wishingwell**
8) Raindrops**
9) You�re No Stranger**
10) Sewing Seeds of Kindness**
11) Maybe, Just A Little Reality (is the truth)**
12) Dancing of the Waters**
13) Three-Way Poker (The Iranian Hostage Song)**
14) Twenty-Four Hour Call**
15) Daystar**
16) Ben Johnson**
17) Hiding from the Sunrise**
18) I Call On You**
19) So Help Me Jesus**
20) We Belong Together**
21) Waiting On A Rhyme**
22) The Spirit of Prayer Mountain**
23) A Song for Mom & Dad**
24) The World I Treasured Once**
25) The Unfinished Song**
26) Fairweather Clouds**
27) The Land Of �Inbe `tween**
28) Eye of the Storm**
29) Today is Tomorrows Yesterday**
30) The Old man & the Young man**
31) Brother�s in the Fold**
32) Soldiers of the Lord**
33) A Perfect Tree**
34) He�ll Carry You**
35) You Better Not Laugh**
36) I Bow to your Majesty**
37) Bring the Victory Home**c2007
38) A Penny in my Thoughts**c2007
39) Suffer Me the Little Children**
40) (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation SONG)**
41) The Agent Orange Song**
42) As The Fog Rolls In**
43) Lazurus, Come Forth Now**
44) A Memory of Love**
45) Peanut�s Song (?)**
46) Don�t You Know **c2007
47) My Home Church**
48) Lookin� For Love**
49) I�d Go Through Hell For You On Sunday**c2007
50) So You Say You have a Dream**
51) Praise the Lord (As His Holy Spirit Comes Down)**
52) HomeFree Again**
53) Cant You Hear Him Calling**
54) Lying In A Muddy Hole (Agent Orange Song)**
55) I Never Thank You Quite Enough**c2007
56) Where The Worm and Fire Never Die**c2007
57) From A Kingsize Bed to Separate Bedrooms**c2007
58) Dream Marriage Nightmare**c2007
59) Since You Were Young (Olivia�s Wedding Song)**c2007
60) You Gotta Believe**c2007
61) The Wonder That Is You**c2008
62) Can You Put Me Back Together**c2008
63) Where My Blackbird Plays (Blackbird SR-71 Song)**c2007
64) It�s Not the Gingseng Baby**c2007
65) The Sparrow c2009
66) Hallowed Be Thy Name c2009
67) A Good Buy On Goodbye c2009
68) Angel Of Light (Lucifer's Song) c2009
69) "Just More Manure He's Got To Hide" c2009
70) You say That You Love Me c2009
71) I Know, You Know, I Know c2009
72) SOMETIMES I WONDER (Could This Be Love) c2009

73) THE WONDER THAT IS YOU (Debby's Song) c2009

74) SHE WANTED A ROMANTIC (Not My Roamin'Antics) c2009
75) THE PROVING GROUND (High energy- Rock-Christian Song) c2009
76) PLAN TO LIVE FOREVER c2009
77) SAIL ON WITH ME FOREVERMORE c2009
78) Faith Is Key c2009
79) I GIVE YOU ALL THAT I DON'T HAVE c2010
80) An Empty Life

Links

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Audio

• You're_No_Stranger (me-guitar-mic-one take)
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• "THE PROVING GROUND" [Just Me--one take] (Christian song, like 3rd Day) ** HIGH ENERGY "None of us are strangers to heartache." Kab
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• "SHE WANTED A ROMANTIC" -[Just Me--one take]-( INTENSE BLUES-Lost love ) I needed to enter a song for the "Nashville Songwriter's Association International" Symposium Conference whose entry deadline was 2 days away & couldn't decide on one, so I just decided to write a new song for the competition. This recording , lyrics & melody, were all created in those two days. Keith ( Me No More, Mi Amore...Me No More, My Love)
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• "THE WONDER THAT IS YOU" [Just Me--one take] ( Love song about my wife and my guardian angel, with a surprise ending.) { Based on Genesis 6:4, "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-afterward-when the "Sons Of God" [ Angels ] went to the daughters of men and had children by them. These children were the heroes of old, men of renown." NIV }LYrics Revised 4-7-2010 (Bridge)
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• "ANGEL OF LIGHT" [Just Me--one take] ( about the fallen angel, Lucifer) ** verses have biblical basis, will list very soon :Rainbow Rev4:3 (3-22-09)
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• "SEWING SEEDS OF KINDNESS" [Just Me--one take]**(Beautiful Christian Song) Inspired by Debby Bailey, my wife, Barry Ralph, my best friend & Loretta Bailey, my mother. 1st, 2nd & 3rd verses respectively. Kab
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• (MY SKYDIVING SONG) "RAINDROPS" [Just me-- multi-tracked] I got the idea for this song as I was looking out my front door, during a heavy but pleasent rainshower in early springtime, when it occurred to me how similar I was to the raindrops when skydiving. The sensation is that of skyflying, but you are falling and will be destroyed unless you make plans for your safety. **Recorded by David Miller at his home studio in Starlight, In. David acted as engineer and producer (even playing a wonderful lead guitar track that sounds like raindrops on another mix that isn't the version here on sonicbids ), telling me what he wanted on each track. It was the first time I had been coached and learned of the importance of "oohs" & "aahs". Probably my most polished work, very popular. ( NOTE= all songs on this site are only me, either one take or multi-tracked)
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• "FAITH IS KEY" [Just Me--one take] (gotta move one foot or the other) c12-19-09 "Everyone has to pay their dues of faith." Kab
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• "HALLOWED BE THY NAME" [Just Me---multi-tracked]( A song about a father's loss of his son to war---not sad but uplifting) Note: This was the first song that I recorded using a JamMan looper and the extra tracks recorded are not balanced--keith}
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• "LIVING AS THE WALKING DEAD" [Just Me--one-take] (why is an empty life, so heavy to carry)1:50 sample of a Hard rock song similar to the band RUSH. The bridge chorus fade is still in the works, I do have an ending but I feel that it could be stronger. Keith
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• * "SOMETIMES I WONDER" { COULD THIS BE LOVE } (Cool Easy Listening) [Just Me--one take]***** (My wife thinks it is a perfect song and very romantic. Always received well when performed.
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• I CALL ON YOU___EQ_2
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• Where Do You Look To Find Your Way TRIM 410
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• 09 I_Never_Thankyou_edited_400_BEST
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• Track 10
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• Track 7
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• "THE RACCOON SONG" [Just Me--one take] ( True story of a racoon near Key West that motivated me to play guitar )
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• Dream marriage Nightmaremp3 stereo
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• 05 If The grass Is Green mp3 FullSong
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Lyrics

• "THe Extreme Tour":\"The Lion Of Judah" "The March Of The Saints"c2012 keithbailey
• THE SPARROW {Before My Tears Could Form} (Bradley's Song) lyrics are very picturesque, Typo correct
• SOMETIMES I WONDER [ updated 3-10-10 ] (Could This Be Love)
• THE WONDER THAT IS YOU (Debby's Song) revised bridge 2-2-2011
• SHE WANTED A ROMANTIC (Not My Roamin'Antics)
• IT'S A GOOD BUY (purchase) ON GOODBYE [ updated 3-10-10 ] May 20, 2009
• ANGEL OF LIGHT {Lucifer's Song, Biblicly based}(final version)
• eMoTiOn SiCkNeSs---eMoTiOn SiCkNeSs---3-10-10
• THE PROVING GROUND [updated 3-10-10] (High energy- Rock-Christian Song)
• LIVING AS THE WALKING DEAD (Why is an empty life, so heavy to carry) rev 2-12011
• IF THE GRASS LOOKS GREENER (nice hook,...
• HE'S STILL KING --very popular (final version)
• YOU GOTTA' BELIEVE (written in honor of my Dad, Jewell {Joe} Lee Bailey, Sr. )
• I NEVER THANK YOU QUITE ENOUGH (I get So Busy Doing Stuff)Christian Song
• Sugarloaf ( True story that motivated me to play guitar)
• "The Driftwood Lullaby" c2011 keithbailey
• I Give To You My Love Without Condition
• Sail On ( Are We Comic Book Or Fairytale)
• Hallowed Be Thy Name (updated 3-10-10 )
• Since You Were Young (A wedding song for Olivia, my daughter)
• RAINDROPS (My skydiving song)
• PLAN TO LIVE FOREVER (Live like It's Your Last day)
• YOU'RE NO STRANGER (Beautiful Christian song)
• WISHINGWELL (Cool Christian Song)
• :"So Help Me Jesus" c2011 keithbailey
• SEWING SEEDS OF KINDNESS (many peoples favorite easy listening song)
• Faith Is Key ( Gotta Move One foot Or The Other) [ updated 2-2-2011 ]
• "I Call On You" c2011 keithbailey
• "Anytime, Anywhere" christian song c2=11 keithbailey

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Press

• Honor Award [+ Show ]
  

  Congratulations! We have completed the preselection process. You have been selected as an honor a...Congratulations!
  
  We have completed the preselection process. You have been selected as an honor award in the 100% Music Songwriting Contest.
  
  Being selected is a great achievement to be proud of, as several hundred songwriters from all around the world entered the contest.
  
  The winners in each category and overall winners will be chosen among the finalists by the jury, in which the final results, winners, and overall winners will be announced at the end of October 2008.
  
  We invite you to subscribe to our newsletter on our website in order to be informed when the winners will be released at the end of October 2008, as well as when we announce the second edition of the 100% Music Songwriting Contest.
  
  We wish you the very best in your songwriting.
  
  Vincent Bernay
  100% Music Songwriting Contest

• Semi-Finalist King Kat Music [+ Show ]
  

  December--2007 Semi-finalist You Gotta Believe by Keith Bailey Congratulations Keith Bailey! You...December--2007 Semi-finalist
  You Gotta Believe by Keith Bailey
  
  Congratulations Keith Bailey! Your song titled "You Gotta Believe" has now made it to the first round of the top five songs for the month of December of the 2007 King Cat Music Songwriting Contest! Your family and friends can vote for your song by going to www.kingcatmusic.com., click on "Vote Here", then click on "December" and follow the instructions. They have until February 14th, 2008 to vote. Hope the best for your song! God bless, Carolyn Bolinger, King Cat Music Songwriter Coordinator
  

• Top Runner-Up, Keith Bailey, Gary Allen's "Greatest Song In The World Contest" [+ Show ]
  

  ***{ I have lost the article, but this was the notification letter. Thanks, keith } Hey Keith, ...***{ I have lost the article, but this was the notification letter.
  Thanks, keith }
  
  Hey Keith,
  Congratulations at making top runnerup in my competition! You placed really high this time. It was " If The Grass Looks Greener" that ranked you so high. I didn't hear it all because of a glitch originally but it all downloaded the last time I clicked on it. I told you about the promotion we do before but I didn't want to leave you out this round.
  
  I'm all ears, like Ross Perot and I know what I like :) If you are trying to get your music into TV, films, or to other artists, publishers, managers, labels, promoters etc. you might be a perfect candidate for this promotion we do for runnersup We have limited space so I only offer it to submitters that we both personally like. Tennessee Concerts gets major traffic and we have promoted Dolly Parton's last two CD's and recently Memphis Blues, the new cable cop show, The Charlie Daniels Band, JJ Cale, Lynyrd Skynyrd etc.
  
  You were up against a Rolling Stone, Doobie Brother and Pointer Sister as well as players from Edgar Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Wings. I have added you into my address book so you can see your ranking in The Music City Beat newsletter. We are on a roll at the moment with our last winner Val Halla landing the opening spot for Ted Nugent's summer tour.
  
  Pat Adams of Tennessee Concerts (my contest sponsor) and myself, have started a joint promotion for Sonicbids artists that are trying to get noticed in Music City and beyond. This was a response to all the emails we were getting from Sonicbids submitters to give their songs or band a boost in the songwriting capital of the world.
  
  If you placed in Gary Allen's Best Song In The World or Tennessee Concerts Song Contest, both 5 star rated contests with excellent reviews, we will work with you.
  
  You will be featured for the quarter at Tennessee Concerts, the highest rated concerts and live events site in Tennessee, and on my brand new personal and official website debuting in October, The Music City Beat. You will be featured in my monthly newsletter of the same name which is now partnered with the Tennessee Concert newsletter, covering 50,000 + hand selected music biz folks from booking, labels, managers, writers, musicians, A&R, radio program directors etc. The Sonicbids data base covers 200,000 members as well. After the promotion ends you will be given your own permanent web page and be added to our new Sonicbids Artist Spotlight page, that we promote year round.
  
  Your friend always in music,
  Gary Allen, BMI
  
  www.tennesseeconcerts.com/musiccitymix
  www.sonicbids.com/garyallensongcontest
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Setlist

Please excuse set list, I've been writng so much new material , for the past 31/2 years, that I've decided to just go with the flow and not fight it. Got a new hook from telling you this. "You better believe it....You'll be better if you believe"...c2010keithbailey haha

Thank you for your kind consideration. keith

*****Now doing a lot of Bad Company, "Shooting Star", "Rock n'Roll Fantasy" and others since I've been having fun on my fender stratocaster HSH. Wow, what a sweet guitar, especially hooked up to a Laney amp. Also, if I can get my Digital Camcorder fixed and find a cable that will hook up to my laptop, I'm hoping to upload some video .kb

Adding Covers--Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on heaven' door, Diamond Rio, (Stuff), Johnny Cash, Steve Camp {Living In Laodocea} Michael Card {God Crucified A Rose}& The Beatles, etc
70 % originals and a few classic covers. Can easily fill two 45 minute sets with my songs, and a third set if needed.
1st set 45 -50 minutes
Walk on the Waters**
Wishingwell**
Raindrops*(Skydiver's Song)*
You�re No Stranger**
Sewing Seeds of Kindness**
Twenty-Four Hour Call**
Daystar**
Ben Johnson**
She Wanted a Romantic
Hiding from the Sunrise**
I Call On You**
So Help Me Jesus**

2nd set 45-50 minutes
We Belong Together**
I Know You Know I Know
The Proving Ground
The Sparrow
Fairweather Clouds**
The Land Of �Inbe `tween** Eye of the Storm**
Today is Tomorrows Yesterday**
Brother�s in the Fold**
I Never Thank You Quite Enough**c2007
He's Still King
Don't You Know
Since You Were Young (Olivia�s Song)
You Gotta Believe**c2007
The Wonder That Is You**c2008
Where My Blackbird Plays (Blackbird SR-71 Song)
Angel of Light
Plan To Live forever
I Bow To Your Majesty

3 rd set 45-50 minutes w couple extras

Me No More, Mi Amore
Killer's Eyes
Girl of my Dreams
Bring The Victory home
Homefree Again
The Perfct tree
Three_way Poker
Sugarloaf
Come back to You & Me
The Wonder That Is You
Anytime, Anywhere
A Penny in my thoughts
The Sparrow

Newer set List (Only Originals, no Religious songs)
v The Agent Orange Song**Vietnam War Song
v A Memory of Love**
v Peanut’s Song (?)**
v Don’t You Know **c2007
v I’d Go Through Hell For You On Sunday**c2007
v Today is Tomorrows Yesterday**
v Bring the Victory Home**c2007
v A Penny in my Thoughts**c2007
v Cystic Fibrosis Foundation SONG)**
v Dancing of the Waters**
v Three-Way Poker (The Iranian Hostage Song)**
v Twenty-Four Hour Call**
v The World I Treasured Once**
v HomeFree Again**
v From A Kingsize Bed to Separate Bedrooms**c2007
v Dream Marriage Nightmare**c2007
v Since You Were Young (Olivia’s Wedding Song)**c2007
v You Gotta Believe**c2007
v The Wonder That Is You**c2008
v Can You Put Me Back Together**c2008
v Where My Blackbird Plays (Blackbird SR-71 Song)**c2007
v It’s Not the Gingseng Baby**c2007
v A Good Buy On Goodbye c2009
v eMoTiOn SiCkNeSs c2009
v Sometimes a Howling Breeze Flying Through The Galaxy c2009
v My son Calls Me Superman (super-market-man) c2009
v The Sparrow c2009
v Living as The walking dead
v I Give You All That I don’t have
v More Precious Than Gold
v Sail On (Are we Comic Book Or Fairy Tale)
v You Say You Want Me, (Just Not Now)
v Faith Is Key
v No Time for time
v Girl Of My Dreams
v A Good Buy On Good Bye !
v Since You were Young
v The Proving ground
v Living as the walking dead
v The raccoon song
v The wonder That is You
v The driftwood lullaby
v I Know…You Know…I know
v If The grass Looks greener
v She wanted a romantic
v The Black

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