13 QUESTION METHOD: KEVIN BREIT
Kevin was born in a small town in Northern Ontario. He is the youngest of seven children born to musical parents. Breit, self-taught, grew up listening and loving the music of the Beatles, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Johnny Winter and many others.
By the age of eleven he was already so proficient that his older brother brought home a Telecaster, handed it to him and said, "Here, you deserve to play on something good." Kevin has played that guitar and anything else with frets ever since. At age seventeen, he moved to Toronto to follow his dream of being a musician. Kevin began working in and out of studios and concert settings. He has recorded with, to list only a few, the likes of Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Rosanne Cash, Jane Bunnett, k. d. Lang, Holly Cole, Janis Ian, Lisa Dal Bello, Patti Scialfa, Marc Jordan, Quartette, Natalie McMaster, Molly Johnson, Sass Jordan, Serena Ryder, Carlos del Junco, Bill Frisell, Michael Kaeshammer, Cyro Baptista and Harry Manx. When Kevin is not in session or touring he performs with Sisters Euclid, FolkAlarm and the Tallboys.

1. Which was the first record you bought with your own money?
Something/Anything — Todd Rundgren

2. Which was the last record you bought with your own money?
Revolver/White album/Sgt. Pepper’s/Abbey Road

3. What was the first solo you learned from a record — and can you still play it?
“It's My Own Fault” — Johnny Winter. Yep.

4. Which recording of your own (or as a sideman) are you most proud of, and why?
Cassandra Wilson’s “Harvest Moon.” There are so many reasons I loved working on that song — the whole New Moon Daughter recording, for that matter. The song was made in one take in a barn in upstate New York, with the peepers going crazy, mid August. Cassandra sang so beautiful and tender. I remember her vocal was so loud in my headphones and the hair on the back of my neck was standing up the entire time she sang.

5. What's the difference between playing live and playing in a studio?
Headphones. Live is more fun and forgiving.

6. What's the difference between a good gig and a bad gig?
A good gig you remember, the bad ones you forget. Or at least want to.

7. What's the difference between a good guitar and a bad guitar?
Sound, probably, and intonation.

8. You play electric and acoustic. Do you approach the two differently?
It's great to sound like an acoustic player playing an acoustic instrument, and vice versa. But it's also fun to approach instruments in different ways.

9. Do you sound more like yourself on acoustic or electric?
I, unfortunately, sound like myself on both.

10. Do you sound like yourself on other people's guitars?
I rarely play other folks’ instruments, but when I visit a music shop I inevitably sound like myself.

11. Which living artist would you like to collaborate with, and why?
Bob Dylan. Just to play guitar would be surreal.

12. Which dead artist (music, or other arts) would you like to have collaborated with, and why?
Warren Zevon would have been a blast.

13. What's your latest project about?
My latest project is a new solo disc called Simple Earnest Plea.