 In
addition to playing over a thousand gigs as a
guitarist/sideman over the
past three decades, Steve
Kilpatrick has unloaded hundreds of trucks,
driven forklift, been an AFL-CIO union steward, a nationally certified
Youth Baseball coach and has held a number of unskilled flunky jobs.
Though he has recorded with others, "Westside
Crop Circles" is his first solo release. It is, musically, a collection
of roots-oriented pop songs; lyrically, the songs reflect
"underdocumented
universals": Steve's
observations of "characters and situations - real or hypothetical -
that we all could be familiar with." Steve lives in Lansing with his
wife and son and is presently trying to invent a beer that performs
angioplasty when consumed. He is also working on an independent
film soundtrack and a CD (or two) with Louisiana Music Hall-of-Famer
Doug Duffey.
"Incapable and uninterested" in performing solo gigs or fronting a band, Steve nonetheless appears occasionally in the Lansing area as a sideman. In memory of
friend and keyboardist extraordinaire Harvey Pershay (1956-2004)
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