Terry Kitchen

Terry Kitchen (born Max Pokrivchak in Phillipsburg, New Jersey^[1][2]) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bethlehem and Easton, Pennsylvania and Findlay, Ohio and attended college at Occidental College and the Guitar Institute of Technology.

Singer-Songwriter Terry Kitchen Appears At The Square Root Roslindale MA January 2020

After college, he moved to Boston and fronted the 1980s pop/rock band Loose Ties before moving on to a solo career in acoustic music. He has performed in New England coffeehouses and folk festivals, as well as nationally, ever since. Terry also wrote a novel, Next Big Thing (2013), based on his experiences in the band Loose Ties.

He derived his stage name from a character in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s 1988 novel, Bluebeard. Vonnegut's Terry Kitchen was a talented member of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Discography

• Max Po-KRIV-chak (1991)
• Blues and Grace (1993)
• I Own This Town (1995)
• Blanket (1997)
• Blues for Cain & Abel (1999)
• Perpendicular Universe: Loose Ties 1982–1988 (2001) (with Loose Ties)
• Right Now (2002)
• That's How It Used To Be (2004)
  • Includes the track "The Greatest Game They Never Played" about the 1949 Sun Bowl controversy^[3]
• heaven here on earth (2006)
• Summer to Snowflakes (2009)
• Songs from Next Big Thing (2013)
• The Post-American-Century (2015)
• The Quiet Places (2017)
• Rubies in the Dust (2018)
• Where the Action Is: Loose Ties 1985 (2018) (with Loose Ties)
• Next Time We Meet (2020)
• Lost Songs (2021)
• We All Dream (2025)