“My God man, you’re a real live poet”  …. Wayne Carson, writer of “You Were Always on My Mind” and “The Letter”, to Kent Agee, onstage at The Basement

Kent Agee first gained recognition as the creator and lead-singer of the Warner/Chappell rock band, “Jane His Wife”.  The visually striking, sonically lush band, with George Bradfute-guitar, Kyle Miller-bass and Scott Miller-drums, played to standing-room-only audiences and featured Agee’s intense presence and his transformative lyrics. The band was courted by labels from L.A. to London, but the music business was in a state of change and Nashville wasn’t the place to birth a band that sounded like Pink Floyd meets the Doors. So, in spite of an international buzz, Jane His Wife never got a record out. But Kent had created fans of his writing on Music Row.

 “After Jane His Wife I spent a lot of lucky years with publishing deals in Nashville, writing songs for someone else to sing. Sometimes it was satisfying, lots of times it wasn’t. But I built up an ability to sit down and make up stuff on command. And I wore a reliable trail inward to my most creative self.”

  As a staff writer for Warner-Chapell, Sony, then Wrensong, Windswept-Pacific and RPM Music, Agee focused on writing songs for other artists. During that time, and later writing for his own publishing company, Bolt Upright, Kent had songs recorded  by artists from Barbra Streisand to Rodney Atkins to Tom Keifer among many others. He became recognized in the industry as a diverse writer of rich, image driven lyrics, and songs that are always honest and often brilliant. 

“With Jane His Wife I was writing from instinct and inspiration alone, trying just to rhyme the confusion in my head into something that made sense, something that mattered to me and hopefully to someone else. But I knew, if I was going to make a living as a songwriter I’d have to go to work. I wrote with a lot of great people, got so much better at the craft. Now I’m really enjoying writing for myself again.” 

 Kent’s first solo project, “Fields and Fences” was an Americana record, beautifully bridging his transition back from writer to artist. The song, “Omens of the End” off of that record was picked by music journalist Bob Oermann as one of the best indie releases of the year. Now, with two new EP’s just out, “The Meteorite” and “Crop Circles”, Kent is picking up where Jane His Wife left off, combining the creative impulses and vision he had then with the craft he’s developed and the wisdom he’s acquired since,  using words and imagery like a combination lock to open up the mystery and meaning of being human.