Amory Kane

Jack Daniel Kane Jr. (born March 28, 1946), known professionally as Amory Kane, is an American singer-songwriter, mostly known for his work in Britain in the late 1960s.
He was born in San Francisco. His father was a military attaché, and as a child he lived in Britain before returning with his family to live in Texas and then back in San Francisco. He became involved in the local music scene in the mid-1960s, as a singer and guitarist, before hitchhiking around Europe and ending up in London. There, he adopted the name Amory Kane (derived from "American") and played in folk clubs. His self-penned single "Reflections (Of Your Face)", released by MCA Records in 1968, was covered by artists such as P.J. Proby.
Kane worked as a session musician in London, playing on recordings credited to bands such as The Magic Lanterns, and met David Bowie, who performed on stage with him at the Wigmore Hall in 1969. He released two solo albums: Memories of Time Unwound, released in 1968 on MCA,which featured then session musicians Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones; and Just to Be There, released in 1970 by CBS, which featured Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention on bass guitar.
Failing to achieve commercial success in Britain, Kane returned to the U.S. in 1972, and started a new career as a restaurant chef. He returned to Britain to release a new album, Fancy Free, in 2021.
==Links to Peel==
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Amory Kane did a session for Peel's programme in 1968. All that is known to survive of this session is found on a tape labelled Early 1969 from the Harper Reels collection. This was London-based American singer Amory Kane''s only Peel session and may have been his only BBC appearance - there are no further references to him on BBC Genome. "Reflections Of Your Face" was his current single, taken from his debut LP Memories Of Time Unwound, which despite being chosen as Melody Maker's pop LP of the month in January 1969, was not a commercial success. Kane made a few more records, including a single cover version of a Peel favourite, Paul Revere And The Raiders' "Him Or Me {What's It Gonna Be)" in 1970, but it seems that Peel ignored them. After Peel's death in 2004, it was later found out that he had a copy of the musician's album, 'Memories Of Time Unwound' in his Record Collection: K.
==Sessions==
1. Recorded: 1968-11-13 (with "unknown British backing band", according to Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions book, although the surviving track, listed in the book as "Reflections", is a solo performance). First Broadcast: 13 November 1968
*Four Ravens / Reflections / Physically Disqualified Blues / Night / Evolution
==Other Shows Played==
*None, according to available tracklistings
==See Also==
*Gigography 1969
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists