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Artist: Kate Redgate
CD Review: Kate Redgate’s 4 song EP demonstrates a very confident composer’s quality, combined with a forthright, strong-strumming acoustic guitar performance that reminds you of the Indigo Girls, halved in number but not in power. All Kate needs is a guitar, and she’s set for folk, verging on the olde worlde storyteller’s style of being clear, clean and passionate about the compressed novels that spring from her brain. Joe Holaday on bass is the only help she’s got, and she doesn’t even need him. This here’s a girl with her head on straight, a voice that’s equal to her strum skill, and a collection of major chords that make the tunes heroically memorable.

What’s on the downside? Not much, if you love folk. (Though to be honest, it’s the instrument that’s more folk than the performance; you might call it acoustic pop-rock if you’re the bold sort.) It would just be nice if there were more to the cd: a full-length. See, the production’s crisp, the way all good discs should be. And of course the lyrics would be great to quote, if they were printed here. Otherwise, the music – is – super.

I’m including her full address (which I don’t often do) because it’s a wonderful little mini-album that you ought to seek out. And email Kate, tell her to stop gigging so much, and set some more tunes down in the studio.

Kateredgate@hotmail.com

Kate Redgate
Box 1080
Newburyport, MA 01950