Les and Bryan have been working together on stage and in the studio since the early '90s, always bringing a diversity of styles and musical viewpoints to one another's projects. Over the past couple years they have come together as writers to provide songs and music for a number of projects.  The success of those projects prompted the duo to found KC Compositions to promote their talents to a wider audience.

Read on to learn more about Les and Bryan in their individual careers.

LES KERR is a songwriter, recording artist and performer who brings blues, New Orleans music, Zydeco, rock and bluegrass together to create his “Hillbilly Blues Caribbean Rock & Roll.” Now based in Nashville, Kerr was born in Louisiana and raised in Mississippi in Jackson and the Gulf Coast city of Pascagoula.

Kerr’s concert highlights include headlining annual Mardi Gras concerts at Nashville’s Bluebird Café since 1992. He has also performed at the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music City Jazz and Heritage Festival (both in Nashville), the Franklin (TN) Jazz Festival, Huntsville, Alabama’s Panoply Festival and Jackson, Tennessee’s Rockabilly Fest. Kerr’s live performances have pleased audiences from Mississippi to Michigan.

The songwriter knows whereof he sings when it comes to the blues and New Orleans sounds he performs. His latest CD, Crawfish Caravan, contains fifteen songs including nine that were written or co-written by the singer. "Slippin’ into Slidell" and "Magnolia Springs" show the influence of Cajun music on Kerr, while "Justine" and "Buy Your Way out of the Blues" illustrate his appreciation for the blues. Gutsy interpretations of "Cotton Fields" and "House of the Rising Sun" are also standouts on the album.

Red Blues was nominated for Blues CD of the Year in 2001 by the Music City Blues Society. Kerr wrote or co-wrote twelve of the album’s thirteen songs. About the album, the New Orleans-based music magazine OffBEAT stated, “Kerr’s musical stylings aptly cover the gamut from rockabilly to boogie to Caribbean beats with ease.”

Christmas on the Coast includes vocal accompaniment on several songs by The Jordanaires, who are members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. The legendary group recorded with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and other notable entertainers. The CD contains ten songs, several of which were written by Kerr, and received positive reviews from the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), The Tennessean (Nashville, TN), the Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) and other publications.

Below the Level of the Sea shows the influence of New Orleans on the singer. Several songs, including "New Orleans in the Spring," were inspired by the Crescent City. The Cajun-influenced title track and a Zydeco version of "Frankie and Johnny" illustrate Kerr’s diversity and appreciation of the music of the region.

Southern Sound Sessions contains sixteen original songs recorded in Mobile, Alabama, another Gulf Coast city Les Kerr called home for seven years before he moved to Nashville.

A three-time nominee for Music City Blues Society awards, Kerr has been nominated for the society’s Male Vocalist of the Year, CD of the Year and Entertainer of the Year awards. He placed in the top three in the Music City Blues Acoustic Blues Challenge in 2000. He has served as vice president of the Music City Blues Society and on the board of directors of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society.

Also a journalist, Kerr co-authored The All-American Truck Stop Cookbook and frequently contributes to magazines and newspapers. Tennessee, published in 2004 by Graphic Arts Center Publishing, features Kerr’s words and photos by George Humphries. In 2002, he contributed to The Bluebird Café Scrapbook with an essay about his Mardi Gras concerts and a recipe for pralines.

BRYAN CUMMING was raised in Georgia in a musical family, playing Dixieland jazz and singing harmony on Beatles songs. After playing saxophone in the army, he toured and recorded with Martin Mull. His first ASCAP credit was "Do the Dog," an instrumental co-written with Mull, released as a single on Capricorn Records in 1976.  Steven Tyler of Aerosmith was among the background vocalists on that song.

Moving to L.A., he toured with John Hall and Libby Titus, and started Studio 23 as a production company.  While in L.A., he recorded, toured and appeared in videos with artists including Al Jarreau, Maria Muldaur, The Ohio Players, David Soul, Supertramp, Anne Murray, Michael Martin Murphy, Al Kooper and the Pointer Sisters. As a member of Billy Vera and the Beaters, he played on the number one single "At This Moment." He played lead guitar for ShaNaNa four years. With Jason Blume, he co-wrote "I Had A Heart," which in 1987 hit #2 on the Cashbox Independent Country singles chart.  In 1995, "Trailer Hitch," a song Bryan co-wrote with Alice Townsend, was recorded by Ken Holloway, and reached #1 on Cashbox's Positive Country chart.

Moving to Nashville in 1988, he toured with K.T. Oslin, Cleve Francis, and a group called Wild About Harry. His songs have been recorded by Jim & the Animal Band (children's music,) Jim Robinson (Christian pop,) Ken Holloway (positive country), Swan Dive (bossa nova pop), Lynsey Bostick (country), Les Kerr (Cajun), and the Cluster Pluckers (bluegrass).

Bryan continued his Studio 23 production company after he arrived in Music City, focusing on independent projects.  He has co-produced several award-winning projects, and is recognized for his versatility, creativity, vision, and technical expertise. He offers demo services, master quality production for independent releases.

Bryan says, "Independent artists keep coming back, which tells you how they feel about the care their projects receive here.  There's only one way a small studio survives in a place as competitive as Music City – Happy Clients!  And while we're located in Nashville, our clientele includes a little bit of everything – jazz, pop, blues, country, folk, rock, swing, and children's music." A producer who is also a songwriter brings compassion and understanding to the process, providing ideas, experience and technical skill, never losing sight of the ultimate creative purpose of bringing the song to life.

After years of writing, playing, and producing other artists' music in his Nashville studio, Bryan released A Song Is a Dangerous Thing in 2004 – a genre-busting collection of his original songs ranging from smooth jazz instrumentals to pop, swing, and country.  He was a finalist in the River Bluff Acoustic Music Song Festival in 2004 performing "Then There's the Truth" from that album.

Demonstrating his versatility, Cumming released Music from Romeo & Juliet, an album of Renaissance chamber music with contemporary pop influences, as part of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival in 2003. He will soon release a new album, this time, a trip to his old jazzy roots, reviving the hip spirit of Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, and perhaps a hint of a young Sinatra, with fresh originals, and plenty of sax along the way.

Bryan continues to demonstrate his versatility as part of Joyful Noise, a bluegrass gospel group featured at festivals and on a recent compilation, Bluegrass Gospel Highway.  In addition, harkening back to those early days in Georgia, he performs regularly as part of The WannaBeatles, a group that performs the music of the Fab Four.