Kelly McGuire Redfish Island CD

Charted at #20 on the TEXAS MUSIC CHART June 2002 - "Club Blonde"ﾃつｷ Charted at #14 on the 'NEXT UP' CHART for NEW MUSIC WEEKLY - "Club Blonde" ﾃつｷ 1st PLACE Austin Songwriters Group 2002 -Country Division- for "Wasted On The Young"ﾃつｷ 3rd PLACE Austin Songwriters Group - Singer/Songwriter Division 2002 "I Cried For Mama"ﾃつｷ Kelly was voted SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR for Fort Bend Songwriters Association in 1997ﾃつｷ He was a finalist in TNN (The Nashville Network) SONGWRITING CONTESTﾃつｷ 1st PLACE at Nashville's Gibson Guitar Cafﾃｩ & Gallery monthly Performing/Songwriters Contestﾃつｷ 1st PLACE in AUSTIN SONGWRITERS GROUP yearly Contestﾃつｷ Voted Best CountryRock Band by BAYCOMBER MAGAZINEﾃつｷ Performed at the 2000 National Assoc of Hispanic Journalists Convention for then GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH at the request of Channel 13's Minerva Perez and received a special handshake from then soon-to-be PRESIDENT BUSH! ﾃつｷ "REDFISH ISLAND" his first CD sold out in the first year and is in it's second pressing! Over 5,000 sold!ﾃつｷ Kelly's original songs from his debut release.. 'REDFISH ISLAND' are regularly played and requested on stations such as 'RADIO MARGARITAVILLE' ... Jimmy Buffett's world famous radio show... right alongside the likes of Jerry Jeff Walker... Little Feat... James Taylor... and Buffett himself.BIOGRAPHYA long time resident of the Clear Lake, TX (Houston/NASA) area, McGuire is known for his original 'gulf coast flavored' songs ranging from country to calypso/tropical, folk and rock. His CD "Redfish Island" was just released in 2000 and contains a collection of songs he wrote inspired by his sailing experiences in the Bahamas, Florida Keys, Mexico and on the Texas Gulf coast. Redfish Island was an island in Galveston Bay close to the ship channel and until the last hurricane washed it away, was the favorite anchorage for all the local boating crowd. There are two songs about Redfish on the CD thus the title "Redfish Island"; one about unrealized dreams and the Redfish Island most of the world-cruising boats never venture further than, and the sequel, "Where Did Redfish Go", a humorous story about trying to find the now submerged Redfish Island . Other songs such as "Major Doubts About Waterspouts" relates a true story of a sailing regatta Kelly raced in from Galveston to Tuxpan, Mexico.Listening to his music one notices a Jimmy Buffett influence and Kelly readily admits, " after hearing Buffett sing about sailing and islands, I dreamed of getting a boat and writing songs about that whole lifestyle." A few years later his dream began to materialize.Growing up in Missouri, McGuire soon ended up performing in Dallas after traveling Oklahoma, New Mexico, Missouri and Canada and bought his first boat, a Hobie16. He soon traded up to a 24' sailboat with a cabin and almost every day, when he wasn't writing jingles for a Dallas based advertising company, he spent on his boat docked at Lake Grapevine just north of DFW airport. Nights he sang at local clubs, restaurants and a chain of family pizza parlors called Shotgun Sams. "The pizza business was big-time for singers in the 70's and 80's providing a great alternative to the club scene. Kids would sit all around the edge of the stage and sing along with me. Even now I love to get kids up on stage with us singing and shaking the tambourine and shakers. "Kelly soon made the move to the Clear Lake area after what began as just a two week engagement at a new Tony Roma's that had opened in Houston. While there he discovered Galveston Bay and the Seabrook/Kemah area and took a job selling yachts and teaching sailing while living aboard his now larger 32' boat. Moving up his dream ladder he was now immersed in the boating world daytime and sang at the floating and legendary Turtle Club and Lakewood Yacht Club at night. The yacht brokerage business was doing well, so after many years of performing five and six nights a week, McGuire took a much needed break from singing to recharge his