Tonight at Molly Malone’s in Covington, guitar hero Bill Kirchen and his band Too Much Fun perform at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18.
Dubbed “The Titan of the Telecaster,” Kirchen hails from Ann Arbor, Mich., where he attended high school with Iggy Pop and Bob Seger. In the early ’70s, he played with Commander Cody’s Lost Planet Airmen, forming Roots Rock band Too Much Fun a few years later in D.C. Along with his own albums, Kirchen has performed with Emmylou Harris, Link Ray, Doug Sahm and Elvis Costello (Costello, Nick Lowe, Maria Muldaur and a slew of other friends/fans joined him on his 2010 release, Word to the Wise).
Here is the title track (and Tele tribute) from Kirchen’s 2007 album, Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods.
This article appears in Apr 25 – May 1, 2012.