KENNEDY CENTER

MYLES KENNEDY IS known for his gigs fronting two of rock’s leading acts, each of which is centered around an avowed guitar star: Alter Bridge, with Mark Tremonti, and Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. But in addition to being an in-demand vocalist, Kennedy is also a pretty stellar six-stringer himself. In fact, growing up in Washington, the now 51-year-old saw himself as a guitar player who also did some singing, rather than the other way around. And in his first major band, the ’90s alternative hard-rock combo Mayfield Four, he handled both lead vocals and lead guitar.

In more recent years, of course, the guitar slots in Kennedy’s bands have been well taken care of. And even when Kennedy stepped out on his own with his 2018 solo debut, Year of the Tiger, it was with a more folk-rock-influenced effort that saw his guitar playing function primarily as a rhythm accompaniment to his vocals.

All that said, Kennedy admits that in the past few years, “I really started to miss guitar a lot, especially improvising and