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Kevin Frenette: Fall River Guitar Guy

by Gordon Marshall
September 8, 2010

However cool the surface of his music, Kevin Frenette is not content to serve up any sort of “easy listening." The guitarist grew up in Fall River, a small city in southeastern Massachusetts, but the beauty of his music is akin to a sylvan setting--to enter into it is to traverse a forest trail. Some themes and motifs--"organisms"--are finely formed and highly developed; some are just budding--new ideas still in the rough, offered to the ear as tokens of innovations ...