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Kyle Swartzwelder has been a fixture on the Delaware folk-rock scene for five years. Like most of us, his taste for music came at an early age, listening to too much of The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel and discovering a 1968 Ovation Balladeer in his father's closet. He got his start backing up friends on guitar and after being encouraged to take center stage to claim some of the spotlight for himself, he soon found his voice as a performer. Any initial stage fright he felt quickly dissolved, as he's gone on to play over 150 live shows in numerous clubs, coffeehouses and open mics throughout the Delaware Valley.

2008, though, has clearly been the busiest year of Kyle's short career. In addition to hosting a Thursday evening open mic at Burlap & Bean in Newtown Square, PA and being nominated for Delaware's Best Male Songwriter by Out & About , Kyle has just released his self titled debut on 13:13 records.

Recommend if you like - Ryan Adams, Iron and Wine, Pete Yorn, Josh Ritter, Lyle Lovett, early Jackson Browne, early Neil Young. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.