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Les Kerr
Songwriter Les Kerr grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi and has called Nashville home since 1987.
Upon the release of his twelfth album in 2025, Child of Highway Ninety, Gold Mine: The Music Collector’s Magazine called Les, “the heir apparent to the late Jimmy Buffett...one gracious guide and a road warrior who culls satisfaction from song.” No Depression magazine called Les a “tireless troubadour” and declared his music “both jovial and cerebral all at the sametime.”
His songs have been recorded and performed by bluegrass groups, world music artists, Americana and Trop Rock performers and even the Count Basie Orchestra. His music has been included on NPR’s “All Songs Considered,” CMT.com and radio stations throughout the U.S., as well as on Sirius XM, Radio A1A, Americana Country and other satellite stations.
Les has headlined concerts at Nashville’s acclaimed Bluebird Café since 1990, including hosting the club’s annual Mardi Gras concerts since 1992. In 2026, he has performed at the Folk Alliance International’s Annual Conference in New Orleans, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as part of the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference and he performed for the eighth time at Nashville’s nationally known “Let Freedom Sing!” Independence Day Celebration. In August,2026, Les was asked to recount recording his Christmas album, Christmas on the Coast, with The Jordanaires, who famously accompanied Elvis Presley for many years, during “Elvis Week”in Memphis, Tennessee on the Earle Farrell 4Memphis Show.
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Upon the release of his twelfth album in 2025, Child of Highway Ninety, Gold Mine: The Music Collector’s Magazine called Les, “the heir apparent to the late Jimmy Buffett...one gracious guide and a road warrior who culls satisfaction from song.” No Depression magazine called Les a “tireless troubadour” and declared his music “both jovial and cerebral all at the sametime.”
His songs have been recorded and performed by bluegrass groups, world music artists, Americana and Trop Rock performers and even the Count Basie Orchestra. His music has been included on NPR’s “All Songs Considered,” CMT.com and radio stations throughout the U.S., as well as on Sirius XM, Radio A1A, Americana Country and other satellite stations.
Les has headlined concerts at Nashville’s acclaimed Bluebird Café since 1990, including hosting the club’s annual Mardi Gras concerts since 1992. In 2026, he has performed at the Folk Alliance International’s Annual Conference in New Orleans, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as part of the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference and he performed for the eighth time at Nashville’s nationally known “Let Freedom Sing!” Independence Day Celebration. In August,2026, Les was asked to recount recording his Christmas album, Christmas on the Coast, with The Jordanaires, who famously accompanied Elvis Presley for many years, during “Elvis Week”in Memphis, Tennessee on the Earle Farrell 4Memphis Show.
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