Born and raised in Iowa City, IA, singer and songwriter Kelly Pardekooper waited until the ripe old age of 32 to record his first album, but his maturity and life experiences show in his music, which matches rough-hewn but tuneful alt-country with honest, emotional tales of life in the Midwest. Pardekooper (who likes to describe himself as "a guy from Iowa with bad hair and a funny name") cut his first album in 1998, a stripped-down affair called 30-Weight, which was released through his own Leisure Time Records imprint.
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