Kevin Dunn (a/k/a Kevin McFoy Dunn) is a guitarist,
producer, and songwriter who first came to public notice in context of the
fertile new wave scene that arose in Athens and Atlanta, GA, in the late 1970s.
In 1975 he and collaborator Alfredo Villar formed the Fans,
one of the first Southeastern bands for whom the influence of blues or country
music was not primary, their chief inspiration lying instead in the British art
rock of the era (Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Robert Fripp, etc.). The band issued
three singles but, destabilized by artistic differences between the principals
and disheartened by the failure of a protracted dalliance with A&M, they
disbanded in 1979.
From 1985 Dunn restricted himself to local live performance
— chiefly solo guitar, featuring ambient pieces and baroque repertory performed
on a replica 17th-century instrument. A comprehensive anthology titled No Great
Lost: Songs, 1979-1985 was released on the Boston-based label Casa Nueva in May
2010.
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