***BUY THE NEW CD AT http://www.katiedahlmusic.com/buy-cd****Katie Dahl was 19 years old when she slipped on the ice at her southern Minnesota alma mater, Carleton College, and broke her wrist. Forced to take a two-month break from playing the oboe, Katie decided to use her newfound free time to learn guitar, strumming the strings with her stiff right hand and teaching herself chord positions with the other. She started out playing covers of songs by the songwriters she’s always loved—Cheryl Wheeler, Pete Seeger, and Dar Williams, to name a few—and gradually gathered the courage to begin writing songs of her own.Since then, this honey-voiced musician has turned her musical attention entirely to the acoustic folk music she’s always loved, singing everywhere from the cliff country of Mali, West Africa, to a canal boat in southern France, to an outdoor theater nestled in the pines of northern Wisconsin. Katie currently makes her home in northern Door County, Wisconsin, and is fast making a name for herself with her rich alto voice, unpretentious vocals, intricate fingerpicking, and incisive lyricism.In July, Katie celebrated the release of her debut record, County Line, which she has described as “a folk-infused exploration of love and the American landscape.†The album contains two cover songs--"Gibraltar Town," by Katie’s songwriting hero, Fred Alley, and "Paradise," by John Prine--and eight Dahl originals, including "America" (a conflicted love song to the titular nation), "Katharine Hepburn Waltz" (a whimsical look at the difficulties of falling in love), "Southern Star" (a Shakespeare-infused journey into the mind of John Wilkes Booth), and "Freedom Song" (a 1960s-style belt-it-out singalong). These songs epitomize the thoughtful, literate lyricism and straightforward melodic sense that characterizes all of Katie’s songwriting.This winter and spring, Katie plans to hit the road with her CD, traveling to France, California, and all around the Midwest, also working as a freelance journalist and editor before returning to her life as a technician, publicity writer, and musician in the world of outdoor Door County theater.
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