Kevin Cronin

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2,143 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 21 Jan

Kevin Cronin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Rich Rath came and found me.

And so when I left, Murphy was the obvious replacement.

So they made a couple of albums with Murph, and it never really gelled musically.

Murphy's, like I say, extremely gifted, but...

Gary's more country, Murph was more R&B, and it just never felt right to me.

There was no bitterness about it.

I knew that I cooked my own goose as far as that was concerned.

I didn't hold it against them for firing me.

But I wasn't a huge fan of those records.

There was one song called Lost in a Dream that Murphy wrote with Bruce Hall, who ended up joining REO.

I really dug that song.

That was the title song of the middle album that they made, Lost in a Dream.

But the next album,

You know, I listened to it, of course.

I was curious.

And I was also, I went through a pretty dark period when my solo career didn't take off.

And that lasted for, you know, a good nine months of kind of isolation.

Had an apartment up on Marine Drive in Chicago.

Little studio place.

I wasn't really seeing too many people.

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