33 years after starting his full-fledged music career with The
Samples, Sean Kelly continues to delight fans with music that
transcends genres, age and shatters the rules of the established
music industry. Throughout his career, Sean has been the driving
influence of 20 albums and over 1 million records sold.
Sean started playing guitar at age 16 listening to Neil Young, Rolling
Stones and Jackson Browne. Those influences mixed with his own
poignant and timeless lyrics, a unique and striking voice and a mind
for melodies led to songs like Little Silver Ring, Feel Us Shaking and
Wild River. For many fans, these aren’t new songs or old songs, but
anthems to their lives that represent the first time they met their wife
or the joys of their times at college.
The Samples are more than a band – they represent a culture of fans
and music that go beyond who happens to be playing in the band at
any given time. There have been many members of The Samples,
but Sean Kelly has been the consistent factor throughout all of the
changes.
Sean’s journeys across America have taken place in rental cars, tour
buses and pickup trucks that would have literally taken him to the
moon and back over the last quarter of a century. There is a lot of
music in store in 2021 and beyond from Sean Kelly and The Samples.