Mike Killeen Bio

Mike is currently working on his fifth album, “Poverty is Real,” and preparing for its release in late 2010.

Originally, from Athens, Georgia and now living in Decatur, Mike counts Bob Dylan, Vic Chesnutt, Nirvana, and Uncle Tupelo among his formative influences. He has shared the stage with southern rock legends the Marshall Tucker Band and Grammy Award winners, The Blind Boys of Alabama.

Mike’s first album, Guns Kill People, was released in 2006 and followed by “Demos, Outtakes, Live, and Whatnot Volume I: 2002-2006” the next year. “Little. And Low.” and “Baby Be True” were released in 2008 and 2009. Listen to tracks from each album.

Northside Hospital
Athens (Hershel Walker, REM)
Tears (hungry, Reagan elected)
Greg
Solid foods
The Giving Tree
Sean
Dale Murphy
Athens Montessori School
Infiniti
Barnett Shoals Elementary
Book It!
Star Wars
Principal’s office (bending spoons)
Long division
Little League baseball
Rob
Clarke Middle School
Braces
The Beatles Rubber Soul
Girls
Nirvana Nevermind
Cedar Shoals High School
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
Jack Logan Bulk
Guitar
Jaywalking Lady
Vic Chesnutt Little
Memorial Park
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
Ford Ranger
The Catcher in the Rye
High school basketball
Son Volt Trace
Harmonica
High School sweetheart
University of Georgia
Fern Hill, America
I’m a Georgia Voter
Piano
Journalism
Nathan
Conflict of Interest
Name in print (Flagpole, Red & Black)
Bass
Name in lights (Georgia Theatre)
Marshall Tucker Band (opening act at 40 Watt)
Jessica
Arthur
Alcohol
Ping pong (Nathan 91, me 73)
W. (more tears)
Black eye (punk rock argument with punks)
B average (almost)
Zell Miller demented commencement
Paint
Decatur
Lenz, Inc.
Confederacy of Dunces
Curbside Crush
Blind Boys of Alabama (opening act at Gwinnet Arena)
Matrimony
Mortgage
Guns Kill People
Verb in E
Demos, Outtakes, Live, and Whatnot, Volume I
Mike Killeen and the Sweethearts
Liam
Mourning Auntie
Little and Low
Baby Be True