Gene Kelton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gene Kelton
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Apr 10, 1953(1953-04-10)
Age	71
Date Of Death	December 28, 2010, Crosby, TX
Birthplace	Booneville
Country	United States
Birth City	Mississippi
Horoscope	Aries

Gene Kelton Biography

Gene Kelton is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on April 10, 1953 in Booneville, Mississippi, United States.

Born Sidney Eugene Kelton, in Booneville, Mississippi, United States, his mother sang gospel music on the radio. She divorced his ne’er-do-well father when he was six. Afterward they lived with his grandfather, a cotton plantation sharecropper. On weekends he listened to down-home blues in a dirt- floored juke joint. His step father, Bob Allbritton, who played rock and roll guitar then in a manner, as it can be said that Conway Twitty, sang country songs, exposed Kelton to all types of music. His mother bought him a Sears Silvertone guitar at the age of ten, and they moved to Texas where he formed his first band, The Moven Shadows. Following a serious motorcycle accident, he played with several cover bands until “giving up” music after his first marriage. It took years of moving through various jobs, getting back into music after a divorce, and trying for a few years to get together a band, going through what he called “the worst of the worst” musicians, before he finally formed The Gene Kelton Band with bass player A. J. Fee and drummer Russel Shelby, around the time of a national blues revival sparked by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Kelton has been a full-time musician since 1983, when he began playing for tips in bars after losing his DJ job while newlywed in his second marriage and, in desperate straits, trying to support his unemployed bride and two sons from his previous marriage. While publishing Texas Blues magazine in the early 1990s, he lost everything but the rights to his songs in his second divorce. The band went through another name, The Love Buzzards, before fans called them “die hards” for playing long sessions in the hot sun suggesting their final revision. Finally, a demo tape played on KPFT helped Kelton raise enough money to release his first album. Another musician saying, “Gene you play a really mean guitar,” led to his nickname and the title of the group’s second album.

Kelton’s songs are most notable for powerful guitar and lyrics that range from emotional to raunchy. His raunchier songs often use innuendo, with lyrics that taken literally are perfectly benign. Such songs include: “The Avon Man”, “Let Me Pump Your Gas”, and “Two Thangs”. Others are a little more overt in their sexuality, such as “The Texas City Dyke”, “My Blow Up Lover”, and, his most well-known tune, “My Baby Don’t Wear No Panties”, which Kelton began improvising to the tune of “Mean Mistreater” in 1988 when, after a drunken girl jumped up on a bar table, ripped off her shirt and began dancing, a guy yelled out, “That ain’t nothing, my baby don’t wear no panties.” Eventually it evolved into the current audience participation version with fans shouting, “How do you know?” after each chorus. Discovering how audiences respond to songs with sexual innuendos, Kelton really caught their attention by beginning “The Texas City Dyke”, “She’s got tattoos on her titties.” Gradually he developed this into his song by using all the jokes he had heard about this landmark fishing dike.

Gene Kelton Net Worth

Gene Kelton is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gene Kelton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gene Kelton (10 April 1953 – 28 December 2010) was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. He played Americana, blues-rock, Southern rock and rockabilly music.

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Facts & Trivia

George Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gene Kelton celebrates birthday on April 10 of every year.

Top Facts about Gene Kelton

1. Gene Kelton was a Texas-based blues singer-songwriter.
2. He released 10 albums during his career.
3. Kelton performed over 200 shows per year.
4. He won multiple awards for his music.
5. Kelton died in 2010 at age 57.
6. His band was called “The Die Hards.”
7. Kelton’s music blended blues, rock, and country influences.
8. He played guitar and harmonica.
9. Kelton wrote many of his own songs.
10. His music has been featured in films and TV shows.