THE BACON BROTHERS
Kevin Bacon Michael Bacon
(pics by me when I saw Bacon Bros in Hollywood)
Perhaps no other band has gotten more mileage out of the element of surprise than the Bacon Brothers.
Through countless gigs and five albums—including the new White Knuckles—surprising people is something
the band has gotten quite good at since forming some 11 years ago. Put simply, at each tour stop, the Bacon
Brothers encounter cynical or curious listeners expecting no more than a vanity project. What they encounter
instead is a group of guys who can actually play.
“We’ve been chipping away at that awareness, chipping away at the fact that most
people think we’re gonna
suck,” co-front man and global film star Kevin Bacon says, reflecting on he and his brother Michael’s first 11
years as a band. What most don’t realize is that guitarist/vocalist Kevin and his older brother Michael (guitar,
vocals, cello) are lifelong musicians, which is of course part of the reason why they’ve become so good at
turning heads and tweaking ears, harvesting an
ever-growing fan base along the way.
Long before Kevin became a household name with such hit films as Footloose and A
Few Good Men, he was
writing songs on his own, and playing percussion in Philadelphia coffeehouses with his brother and other groups.
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