About Kevin Parry
Kevin Parry, based in Southern Vermont, is one of New England's premier musicians and music instructors.
He is a regular performer in Southern Vermont, appearing at such places as The Whetstone Beer Co. in Brattleboro, VT, The Last Chair in West Dover, VT and The Grafton Inn in Grafton, VT.
He has played at numerous concerts and venues in Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. For more than 30 years he has hosted Vermont’s longest running Open Mic which runs every Monday evening in Brattleboro.
Kevin performs solo and also plays in several bands including Three Way Street which specializes in bluegrass and swing and Kevin and the Surfcasters which offers rock and roll for dancing and partying. During the winter months Kevin resides in St. Augustine, Florida where he plays lead guitar with The Instigators and also appears with the Al Canali Project.
Kevin specializes in singing the classic tunes of the 60's, 70's, and 80's as well as traditional blues, country and bluegrass. He plays both acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar, mandolin and harmonica. He is always willing to take requests and has a working song list of over 400 songs!
Kevin’s music has been inspired by such legends as Jorma Kaukonen, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, John Fogerty, Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix and many others.
In addition, Kevin Parry offers private lessons in guitar, electric bass and mandolin.
Kevin is the producer of the “Summer Concerts in the Park” series in West Dover, VT, the home of Mount Snow. More info is available at www.doververmont.com. He is also the musical director for the Guilford Fair in Guilford, Vermont.
To contact Kevin Parry please e mail him at parrykevin@hotmail.com.
Scroll down to see videos of Kevin Parry’s performances and to listen to audio samples. Additional videos can be seen on the Videos page.
Musical Equipment
Kevin plays a variety of electric guitars including a Fender Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul and Gibson Herb Ellis. He plays them through a vintage Fender Vibrolux Reverb amplifier, a Fender Blues Junior and a Quilter Aviator.
His acoustic guitars include a Gibson LG-3, Gibson J-45, Gibson B-25 and Republic Resophonic. He plays a Gibson A-2 mandolin.
Audio Samples
Kevin Parry - Fishing Blues
Kevin Parry - Hit the Road Jack
Kevin & the Surfcasters - Honky Tonk
American Pop - Kansas City
Cool Fish - Jesus on the Mainline
Three Way street - Mabeline
Kevin Parry - I Fought the Law
Kevin & the Surfcasters - The Fish
Cool Fish - Little Red Rooster
Classic Country - Hot Rod Lincoln
Kevin Parry - Twenty Flight Rock
Kevin Parry - Pink Cadillac
Kevin Parry - Nobody Knows You
Kevin's Song List
| · Keep on Rocking me Baby | · A Boy Named Sue |
| · A Little Help From My Friends | · A Pirate Looks At 40 |
| · After Midnight | · Against The Wind |
| · All Along The Watchtower | · All Shook Up |
| · Allison | · Amie |
| · And It Stoned Me | · Angel From Montgomery |
| · Artichoke song | · Atlantic City |
| · Back In The USSR | · Bad Moon Rising |
| · Beast Of Burden | · Before You Accuse Me |
| · Behind Blue Eyes | · Bertha |
| · Better Together | · Big Boss Man |
| · Big Old Jet Airliner | · Big River |
| · Big Yellow Taxi | · Black Magic Woman |
| · Black Muddy River | · Blackbird |
| · Blue Moon | · Blue Suede Shoes |
| · Bobby McGee | · Born On The Bayou |
| · Boulevard Of Broken Dreams | · Box Of Rain |
| · Break Down | · Breathe |
| · Bring It On Home To Me | · Brokedown palace |
| · Brown Eyed Girl | · Brown Eyed Women |
| · Bye Bye Love | · California Sun |
| · Call Me The Breeze | · Can't find my way home |
| · Can?t Buy Me Love | · Candyman Blues |
| · Carolina In My Mind | · Carwash Blues |
| · Casey Jones | · Cassidy |
| · Cats In The Cradle | · Cecelia |
| · Center Field | · Chain of Fools |
| · Chains | · Charlie On The MTA |
| · Cheeseburger In Paradise | · Cinnamon Girl |
| · City Of New Orleans | · Cleaning Windows |
| · Cocaine | · Come Into My Kitchen |
| · Come Monday | · Come Together |
| · Corrina | · Cotton Fields |
| · Country Roads | · Cowgirl In The Sand |
| · Crazy | · Crazy little thing called love |
| · Crazy Love | · Crazy Mama |
| · Crocodile Rock | · Crossroads |
| · Danny's Song | · Dark Side Of The Moon |
| · Darlin' Be Home Soon | · Darlin' You Send Me |
| · Dead Flowers | · Deal |
| · Deep Elum Blues | · Deep River Blues |
| · Desperado | · Different Drum |
| · Dixie Chicken | · Dock Of The Bay |
| · Doctor My Eyes | · Domino |
| · Don't Be Cruel | · Don't Let Go |
| · Don't Mess Around With Jim | · Don't Think Twice |
| · Down On The Corner | · Down Under |
| · Dream Dream Dream | · Drift Away |
| · Dust In The Wind | · Early In The Morning |
| · Easy Chair | · Edmund Fitzgerald |
| · Eight More Miles to Louisville | · Eve Of Destruction |
| · Everybody's Talkin' | · Evil Ways |
| · Father And Son | · Feelin' Alright |
| · Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover | · Fire |
| · Fire And Rain | · Fire On The Mountain |
| · Fishin' Blues | · Folsom Prison Blues |
| · For What Its Worth | · Four And Twenty |
| · Franklin's Tower | · Friend Of The Devil |
| · Friends In Low Places | · Georgia On My Mind |
| · Get Back | · Get Off of My Cloud |
| · Get Rhythm | · Get Together |
| · Gimme Shelter | · Girl From Ipanema |
| · Give It Up | · Glendale Train |
| · Goin' up the Country | · Good Lovin' |
| · Ground Control To Major Tom | · Guilty |
| · Hallelujah | · Hallelujah I Love Her So |
| · Hand Jive | · Happy Together |
| · Harvest Moon | · Have You Ever Seen The Rain |
| · Heard It Through The Grapevine | · Heart Of Gold |
| · Heart Of Saturday Night | · Heartbreak Hotel |
| · Hello Mary Lou | · Here Comes My Baby |
| · Here Comes The Sun | · Hesitation Blues |
| · Hey Good Lookin' | · Hey Hey My My |
| · Hey Joe | · Hickory Wind |
| · High Heel Sneakers | · Hit The Road Jack |
| · Honky Tonk | · Honky Tonk Man |
| · Honky Tonk Women | · Hoochie Coochie Man |
| · Horse With No Name | · Hot Rod Lincoln |
| · Hotel California | · House At Pooh Corner |
| · House Of The Rising Sun | · How Sweet It Is |
| · I can't be satisfied | · I Fought The Law |
| · I got Stung | · I Hear You Knocking |
| · I Knew the Bride | · I Know You Rider |
| · I Saw Her Standing There | · I Second That Emotion |
| · I Shot The Sheriff | · I Should've Known Better |
| · I Walk The Line | · I Won't Back Down |
| · I've Just Seen A Face | · Iko Iko |
| · Imagine | · In My Life |
| · In The Summertime | · Into The Mystic |
| · It Ain't Me Babe | · Its Another Saturday Night |
| · Jailhouse Rock | · Jamaica Farewell |
| · Jambalaya | · Jeremia Was A Bullfrog |
| · John Barleycorn | · Johnny B. Goode |
| · Kansas City | · Kansas City Blues |
| · Keep On Truckin' Mama | · Keep The Customer Satisfied |
| · King Of The Road | · Kodachrome |
| · L.A. Freeway | · Lady Madonna |
| · Landslide | · Lay Down Sally |
| · Lay Lady Lay | · Layla |
| · Lean On Me | · Leaving On A Jet Plane |
| · Leroy Brown | · Let It Be |
| · Like A Rolling Stone | · Little Martha |
| · Little Red Rooster | · Little Wing |
| · Locomotive Breath | · Lodi |
| · Long as I can see the light | · Long Black Veil |
| · Long May You Run | · Long Time Gone |
| · Lookin Out My Back Door | · Love Her Madly |
| · Love Me Like A Rock | · Love Me Two Times |
| · Love The One You're With | · Lucky Man |
| · Mabelene | · Mack The Knife |
| · Maggie May | · Mama Tried |
| · Man Of Constant Sorrow | · Margaritaville |
| · Me And Julio | · Me And My Uncle |
| · Memphis | · Mexico |
| · Midnight Hour | · Midnight Special |
| · Mighty Quinn | · Miss American Pie |
| · Moondance | · Moonshadow |
| · Mother And Child Reunion | · Mother's Little Helper |
| · Mr. Bojangles | · Mr. Tambourine Man |
| · Mrs. Robinson | · Mustang Sally |
| · My Back Pages | · My Best Friend?s Girl |
| · My Old School | · Mystery Train |
| · Nadine | · Needle And The Damage Done |
| · Night Moves | · No Woman No Cry |
| · Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | · Norwegian Wood |
| · Not Fade Away | · Nowhere Man |
| · Ode To Billie Joe | · Oh Blah Dee |
| · Old 55 | · Old Time Rock And Roll |
| · On The Road Again | · One After 909 |
| · One Block Away From Easy Street | · One Toke Over The Line |
| · Operator | · Ophelia |
| · Pancho And Lefty | · Paperback Writer |
| · Peace Train | · Peaceful Easy Feeling |
| · Peepin' And Hidin' | · Peggy O |
| · People Are Strange | · Piano Man |
| · Pink Cadillac | · Poor Boy |
| · Pride And Joy | · Proud Mary |
| · Rainy Day Women | · Ramblin' Man |
| · Rave On | · Red House |
| · Red Shoes | · Redemption Song |
| · Redneck Friend | · Return of the Grievous Angel |
| · Revolution | · Ring Of Fire |
| · Ripple | · Roadhouse Blues |
| · Rock And Roll Music | · Rock Around The Clock |
| · Rocket Man | · Rocky Mountain Way |
| · Rocky Raccoon | · Roll Over Beethoven |
| · Rollin' and Tumblin' | · Romeo And Juliet |
| · Route 66 | · Ruby Tuesday |
| · Runaround Sue | · San Francisco Bay Blues |
| · Satisfaction | · Save the last dance for me |
| · Sea Cruise | · Shanty |
| · She Belongs To Me | · She Came In Through The bathroom window |
| · She Caught the Katy | · She Thinks I Still Care |
| · Ship Of Fools | · Short People |
| · Shower The People | · Sittin' On Top Of The World |
| · Sitting In Limbo | · Six Days On The Road |
| · Slip Sliding Away | · Sloop John B. |
| · Some Kind of Wonderful | · Son Of A Son Of A Sailor |
| · Southern Cross | · Spooky |
| · Squeeze Box | · Stage fright |
| · Stagger Lee | · Stand By Me |
| · Statesboro Blues | · Stealin' |
| · Steamroller | · Stormy Monday |
| · Stuck In The Middle With You | · Subterranean Homesick Blues |
| · Sugar Mountain | · Sugaree |
| · Sultans Of Swing | · Summertime |
| · Summertime Blues | · Sundown |
| · Sunshine | · Sunshine Superman |
| · Suzie Q. | · Sweet Baby James |
| · Sweet Caroline | · Sweet Home Alabama |
| · Sweet Home Chicago | · Sweet Melissa |
| · Sympathy For The Devil | · Take It Easy |
| · Take it to the limit | · Take Me To The River |
| · Take The Money And Run | · Takin Care Of Business |
| · Taxi | · Teach Your Children |
| · Tears In Heaven | · Tell everybody I know |
| · Tenth Avenue Freeze Out | · Tequila Sunrise |
| · That'll Be The Day | · That's All Right Mama |
| · The Boxer | · The Gambler |
| · The Joker | · The Letter |
| · The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | · The Race Is On |
| · The Shape I'm In | · The Thrill Is Gone |
| · The Times They Are A Changin? | · The Wanderer |
| · The Water song | · The Way You Do The Things |
| · The Weight | · The Wind Cries Mary |
| · Thirteen Questions | · This Old Cowboy |
| · Three Little Birds | · Thunder Road |
| · Ticket To Ride | · Time In A Bottle |
| · Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down | · Train Kept A Rollin |
| · Truckin' | · Tupelo Honey |
| · Twenty Flight Rock | · Twenty Four Hours At A Time |
| · Uncle John's Band | · Under The Boardwalk |
| · Up On Cripple Creek | · Ventura Highway |
| · Vincent Black Lightning | · Volcano |
| · Wagon Wheel | · Wake Up Little Suzie |
| · Walkin' After Midnight | · Walkin' Blues |
| · Walkin' The Dog | · Waters of March |
| · We Can Work It Out | · When I'm 64 |
| · When the Levee Breaks | · While My Guitar Gently Weeps |
| · Whipping Post | · White freightliner |
| · Who Do You Love | · Who'll Stop The Rain |
| · Whole Lotta Love | · Wild Horses |
| · Wild Night | · Wild Thing |
| · Wild World | · Will you still love me tomorrow |
| · Willin' | · Wish You Were Here |
| · Wonderful Tonight | · Wonderful World |
| · Wooly Bully | · Yellow Submarine |
| · Yesterday | · You Can't Always Get What You Want |
| · You Don't Love Me | · You're so vain |
| · You've Got A Friend | · You've Got To Hide Your Love |
| · Your Cheatin' Heart | · Your Mama Don't Dance |
| · Your Song |
Kevin's Recordings
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Kevin Parry - Greatest Hiss
Released 2024
Track Listing:1. Six Days on the Road (with Kevin and the Surfcasters)
2. Route 66
3. The Fish
4. Come on in My Kitchen
5. 20 Flight Rock
6. Jet Airliner (with Kevin and the Surfcasters)
7. Walkin’ Blues
8. Born on the Bayou (with The Instigators)
9. Artichoke Song
10. Susie Q
11. Little Martha (with Mando X)
12. Fishin’ Blues
13. Nadine (with the Instigators)
14. Hesitation Blues
15. Dixie Chicken (with The Bandaloops)
16. Stone River
17. California Sun/There is a Mountain
18. Nobody Knows You
19. Call me the Breeze (with Three Way Street)
20. Yonna
21. Don’t Let Go
22. Worried Blues
23. Crazy Mama
24. Honky Tonk
25. I Fought the Law
26. Is This Love (with the Bandaloops)
27. Friend of the Devil
28. Calypso Mike (with Mando X)
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and other sites.