Alan is from Kingsville Texas, where he was raised on Baptist hymns and The Beatles.  His parents would let him stay up past his bedtime to watch Elvis movies.  Alan’s career as a front man started at the age of 14, when he started his first band.

In the early eighties, Alan fronted legendary Kingsville, Texas band, Scurvy Otto & The Rickets.  It was with Scurvy Otto where he first shared stages with the likes of Joe King Carrasco, the True Believers featuring Alejandro Escavado, Dana Cooper, Huey Lewis & the News, Starship and the Outfield.   During that same time, Alan was a sometime member of the infamous Wednesday Night Band project that spawned some of Nashville’s prolific songwriters and sidemen, David Lewis, Craig Langford and Catsby Jones.

 

Moving to Colorado in the mid 1980’s, Alan experimented with multiple styles of music, dance, Jazz and the Blues.  Landing gigs in some of the Denver area’s best cover bands and sharing marquee credits with a diverse array of artists consisting of The Fifth Dimension, Rare Silk, Gary Pucket & the Union Gap, Lee Golden & The Goldens, Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, The Osmond Boys, Hazel Miller, Lynn Skinner & Amy Grant.

 

Alan spent the last year and a half of the decade trying to secure a staff writing position with Warner Brothers Records, hanging on to the coattails of songwriter, John Dees, whose credits include Fleetwood Mac, Boston & The Righteous Brothers.  Alan and John submitted songs to everyone from Reba McEntire to Stevie Nicks and all over Nashville and Los Angeles. During that same time, Alan met Mark and the other Alan, starting the musical collaboration that has lasted till today.

In the mid nineties, Alan came home to Texas and joined the Psychic Cowboys to bring the unique brand of original music — previously only done in the studio — to live audiences.  Some of those originals have remained part of our set. Alan still experiments with side projects, Jim Stringer, The LaSalles, The Uptown Show and Flamin’ Desire.  In yet another side project, he’s currently preparing to release a CD of original music under the name, Alan Kent Barnette.

 

Alan has written nearly four hundred songs and been in over 45 bands and played in dives and  on stages all over the country.