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"CD review"

The veteran Vancouver
singer/songwriter has found her true Calling at the rockier end of the wide country spectrum, which gives her plenty of room to letthat big voice have its way. Best thing here is her title tune, “Rebel Kind,” where Brock lays down her world view. It’s followed closely by “Cowboy Boots and Levisthe Keith Urban-inspired shuffle that deserves hit status, while “Thirty Something” is reminiscent of Gretchen Wilson’s call to arms, only here Brock is singing about the post-20s women who still actually have vibrant lives, go figure. A BCCMA lock, wait and
see. rating "B"
- The Vancouver Province


"Vancouver Province feature article"

Angel dust is to country music-biz reality as a Band aid is to your knee in that bath of real life. Doesn’t stick. For all the Carrie Underwood tales of overnight success there are tons more about those who had to turn the car around for home, the Nashville city-limits sign in their rearview mirror.
Which isn’t to say they weren’t good, only that the Nashvffle brain trust — ahem — couldn’t see the newbie’s potentiaL Burnaby-raised Kelly Brock made the trek south years ago, and was told by the A&R woman at Warner Music, the one who signed Faith Hill, that Brock wasn’t country or southern enough. She took it to heart and came back to Vancouver. Soon after, Shania Twain got very famous
Today Kelly Brock finally releases that country album she wanted to make, all those many years ago. In the meantime, she has become amazingly creative figuring out how to eke a living out of making music. Whether it’s placing songs with film and TV productions, singing jingles or performing in any number of genres live in clubs, she’s got it down.
She’s been in bands like Lost Durangos, a country-rock group a la the Byrds, and went New Wave for awhile with Innocent 3, winning a local contest and time in the studio with producers Paul Hyde and the late Brian “Too Loud” McLeod.
More lately she’s been singing jazz with 10 Cents a Dance, though her longest-running gig has been with Dr. Strangelove at the Roxy the last 10 years. She calls it her day job. Working there she met people like Tom Arnold and Randy Jackson Michael’s brother, who told her, “It’s really evident and obvi ous you really enjoy being on stage, you really enjoy perform ing.” Says Broth “That’s probably one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said to me.”
Brock has quite a knack for meet ing and hanging with big names. A friend of hers was the guitar player for Amanda Marshall, who was booked to play at the grand opening of the Virgin megastore in Vancouver six or so years ago. He asked Brock to come down and take a few pictures to remember the gig by.
She struck up a conversation with Richard Branson, he came to her show that night with a bunch of people and she ended up with invitations to other store openings in Las Vegas and New York. She ultimately got to England and stayed at Branson’s parents’ sum mer cottage for a couple of days. And then there was the time she was spending time with Keith Urban on one of her Nashville trips.
“He lived next door to a friend of mine and they were buddies,” says Brock.
“I had gone down with a girl friend and we an went out for din— tier, and afterwards went back and jammed a bit down in the base ment. At the time I don’t even think Keith had a record deal, he
was struggling, but I was thinking, ‘oh, this guy’s kinda cute.’
“Next night he had a showcase and he said, ‘You girls have to come.’ He was trying to pack the room. I had no idea how talented he was and he justblew my mind.” While Urban went on to build a fabulous profile in country Brock came back to Vancouver and developed her multi-tasked musi cal career. But watching the advent of artists like Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich has her excited about finally making her country move. “I always loved country; I grew up on a lot of it,” says Broth. ‘ country music is far more accept ing of female artists, and you can age in country and still have a career. There isn’t the ageism you see in pop and rock ‘n’ roll. And in Canada there’s more of a commu nity in country
“Yeah, I really want to do it, puffing my own twist on it.”
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- The Province Newspaper


Discography

Rebel Kind (2007) Pacific Music/Warner Music Canada

Dirty Dishes (2002) Fusion III
Single, "High On The Sunshine" medium rotation on MuchMore Music

So Close (1999) Fusion III
Single "A Lot Of Little Things" medium rotation on MuchMore Music

Kelly Brock (1997)
Single "Sacred" medium rotation on CMT Canada

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Growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver in the 1970’s, Kelly remembers being addicted to the sounds that were coming out of her parent’s radio and eight-track player. In the car, on the living room stereo and on her bedroom portable am/fm radio, the sounds of the 70’s was the soundtrack to her formative years. The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Linda Ronstandt and Fleetwood Mac wove their way into Brock’s musical subconscious at a very tender age. Kelly and her three younger sisters would dance around the living room while listening to her Mother’s favorite country records, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Gordon Lightfoot while her Dad loved to crank up the Beatles and any old soulful R&B classics.

Fast-forward to the mid-80’s when Brock graduated from high-school to join her first band, The Lost Durangos. The group which was also influenced by the 70’s and 80’s country-rock movement (Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Lone Justice) released their critically acclaimed 12 inch disc, Evil Town and hit the road across Canada, performing at clubs and universities while topping college radio charts. After leaving the Durangos, Brock did a brief stint with new-wave rockers, Innocent 3 which saw them winning CFOX’s Seeds competition providing them an opportunity to work with Paul Hyde and Brian Macleod.

When Brock decided to go solo over a decade ago, she had no idea that after years of playing in bands, writing songs and singing her heart out night after night that she would still be just as enthusiastic and excited about music today as she was when she was growing up. That enthusiasm has led her to write and create three independent CD’s to date along with her fourth disc, Rebel Kind, released this year on Pacific Music/Warner Music Canada. Along with recording her own original material, Brock has also cut her teeth and paid her dues singing cover tunes at nightclubs, casinos and private functions. With three successful indie CD’s under her belt, Brock’s self-penned and co-written tracks have been heard and seen on Canadian radio/video stations, been featured on many film and television programs and have been included on several compilation soundtracks. Her presence on the internet has also been very strong with her website, kellybrock.com seeing over five millions hits.

Brock latest CD release, Rebel Kind is the disc that she is so far, the most proud of. After many years of performing and making music, she feels that she is finally at the top of her game. Her years of experience have paid off. With help from her co-producer, Craig Zurba, Brock has co-penned ten of the twelve tracks and has enlisted the support of fellow singers, Barney Bentall, Dustin Bentall and Barry Mathers (of The Cruzeros) along with song-writer, Jeff Cohen (co-writer on Big and Rich's "Holy Water” which went # 1 on both CMT and GAC video charts), who co-write the track, Vegas with Kelly. The 12 tracks are infectious and inspiring and the closing track, “Heartache”, written by Lowell George, proves that Brock get belt it out with the best of them.