Chet O’Keefe and Liz Lenten (from Auburn) were introduced by mutual friend and award winning producer, Thomm Jutz (Nanci Griffith, Mary Gauthier, and Mac Wiseman) in Nashville TN.
Chet O’Keefe
“Chet O’Keefe is a singer/songwriter I hold in the highest regard. In today’s homogenized, derivative, deteriorating musical scene, he is a fixed point; a living lighthouse made of stone from the past, with a beacon for the future. Listen to this guy. He will change the way you look at the world.”
- Kinky Friedman, Governor of the Heart of Texas. (Jan 2016)
Chet O’Keefe is an American singer/songwriter now based in Terlingua Ranch, Texas, who has forged new frontiers in the realm of Americana music, creating an electrifying amalgam of insightful lyrics, profound storytelling, sultry, smoky vocals and razor-sharp guitar playing that brings his songs to life with nostalgic effervescence. Chet’s sound evokes the finest Merle Haggard dance-hall moments on “Take Me Down To The Liquor Store” and the sound of the dark woods on the mysterious, “Game Bird”.
The writer of ‘Ring the Bell’ a bluegrass #1 for The Gibson Brothers in 2010, as well as IBMA Song of the Year, Chet’s a first class guitarist and singer with an avalanche of tunes and country-western know-how in his back pocket.
His voice is at once ‘old as the hills and young as spring grass’; He sounds like a man who’s been around the block and is back to tell you about it. Indeed he has. Chet has toured with Nanci Griffith, Kinky Friedman, backed Bo Diddly and sung with John Prine.
In the words of Nanci Griffith: “Welcome to the magical world of Chet O’Keefe.”
Liz Lenten
“…..in delivering melodic dramatic monologue, Liz Lenten is among the best around”
- David Innes, R2 magazine (UK – Nov 2015)
Auburn has been captivating audiences around the country with their unique blend of Americana, soulful blues, roots music. Fronted by vocalist Liz Lenten, whose voice has been described as “so sweet it’ll make your hair curl” and “husky, with an emotional frailty’.
‘…listening to Liz sing is like making eye contact…aurally…there is nowhere to hide from the raw emotion…..’ (Fan FB feedback)