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.” A Nashville resident since 1987, Kerr was born in Louisiana and raised in Mississippi. Les has recorded twelve albums, including his latest, released in February 2025, Child of Highway Ninety. About Les’ music, national music publication No Depression’s Lee Zimmerman wrote, “Nashville’s Les Kerr creates a sound that’s both jovial and cerebral all at the same time…Kerr takes his stylistic additives from a variety of genres -- reggae, country, folk, blues and rock ‘n’ roll -- and meshes them into a hybrid that’s philosophical [and] sunny.”

Les has performed at many festivals and has headlined annual Mardi Gras celebrations at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Café since 1992. He has performed at Nashville’s Official Independence Day Celebration, the Grand Ole Opry House, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Southern Festival of Books.

Regional performances include shows at the Maple Leaf Bar and Louisiana Music Factory (New Orleans, LA); Decatur, Alabama’s Historic Princess Theatre; The Listening Room (Mobile, AL); The Railyard (Decatur, AL); Hal and Mal’s (Jackson, MS); Atlanta Dogwood Festival and Knoxville (TN) Dogwood Festival. Les also appears on television and radio programs including the WDVX Blue Plate Special in Knoxville, TN, where he has recorded two live albums (As Is and Part of the Show). Other broadcast appearances include Coffee, Country and Cody (WSM, Nashville), the Grinders Switch Radio Hour (Centerville, TN) and the Haggard and Haggard Radio Hour (WRFN FM, Nashville). Mackinac Blues, from Les’ New Orleans Set CD, was included in NPR’s All Songs Considered and the New Orleans-based OffBEAT magazine declared, “Kerr’s musical stylings aptly cover the gamut from rockabilly to boogie to Caribbean beats with ease.” Les was a three-time award nominee of the former Music City Blues Society and was featured in the TV documentary Civil War Songs and Stories broadcast on PBS stations across the U.S.