With a seat at rock’s top table, it’s perhaps fitting that Myles Kennedy shares a surname with a former US president. More admirable than Kennedy’s steady ascent through rock’s echelons, though, is the way he’s managed to do it all with genuine, unassuming charm. Only recently he told us that world domination doesn’t appeal to him – and you can take his word for it. Still, best known as the prodigiously talented frontman with American hard-rock flagbearers Alter Bridge and a co-Conspirator in Slash’s band, he hasn’t really had a say in the matter.
Kennedy’s career has been as diverse as it has impressive. Long before he became one of rock’s leading voices, he made his start as an accomplished guitarist in jazz-fusion group Cosmic Dust, and then Citizen Swing, an experimental outfit combining funk, soul and blues. Heavier times followed fronting alt.rockers The Mayfield Four, who released two albums on a major label, but the band struggled to leave
