“With this album, everybody had the time and energy to make it," says Kuhn. Maria the Gun took him and his band to Wolf Island Recording Studios in Dayton, Texas, with fewer time constraints and new leadership under producer and fellow local musician Kevin Skrla. With Everybody Knows, Kuhn and his band went into SugarHill Studios and cut 12 songs in one day. He could have one string on the guitar and make it work.” It was so cool to have him be a part of that. Whatever I got going on really started at the Old Quarter.” Little Joe Washington made his final studio recording on Kuhn’s previous album, and their friendship resonates on the record. "He put me up at the Old Quarter and helped me. ![]() “Rex has been my biggest supporter since the beginning," says Kuhn. When he returned to Texas after so many years away, he made his home between Houston and Galveston and found musical support from two local legends, bluesman Little Joe Washington and former Old Quarter owner Rex “Wrecks” Bell. Kuhn did plenty of writing while traveling, even writing a yet-unpublished novel based on his journals. “It’s an instant connection when you play music. Throughout his travels, Kuhn had his guitar in tow and was aware that music is a unifying force. I wanted to do that.”Īnd “do that” he did. “It was the first book that opened my mind that you can just go to Mexico and Central America like that," he says. Kuhn decided to begin his decade-long travels, like so many young, hopeful Americans before him, after reading Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. ![]() His new album, Maria the Gun, brings a new vibe to the table, one reflecting the world's current troubled times without losing his trademark breezy and upbeat voice. With his sophomore release, Kuhn not only lopped off his recognizable dreadlocks, but also veered from his previously Caribbean-dominated sound. Last time we heard from the Houston native, he brought us his debut album, the feel-good Everybody Knows. Eventually returning to Texas, he settled on the sunny island of Galveston and became a regular performer at the legendary Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe. Kuhn traveled through South and Central America working a wide range of odd jobs, including fisherman on an island run by drug traffickers. Robert Kuhn brings to his songwriting a rich history of world travels, languages and a variety of personal experiences most people could only dream of.
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