A 4th generation native Californian who divides her time between the rooftops of Southeast London and a tipi in a canyon on the Pacific coast in the Santa Monica Mountains above Ventura County Line. SINGER, SONGWRITER, political activist and all round multi-task force, Kathleen`s latest album DONT TELL was released in summer 2007 on her own Howlin` Hound label and distributed by Proper Music.
DONT TELL is released in the USA on Nine Mile Records on March 18th 2008
A SUSSED and culturally aware musician who passionately believes in the HEALING power of music, latent people power and that the PERSONAL is most definetly POLITICAL.
She WOKE up and smelt the coffee at an early age and grew up to know her family tree boasted a mexican folk hero and a RADICAL Irish partisan who was a VISIONARY footsoldier embedded in the American labor movement In September 2002 Kathleen joined the STOP THE WAR campaign and was one of over 100 prominent UK writers, musicians, artists and actors signing an open letter to prime minister Tony Blair urging the British government to oppose US plans to invade Iraq. Last year Kathleen had the honour of singing backing vocals as part of the choir on the new Neil Young album Living With War.
Her latest album DONT TELL is a prowling/pounding melange of delicately carnal, driven, in the moment songs, carved from the inside looking out and delivered from the outside glaring straight into your eyeballs..................
Recorded in Bristol, London and Hyde Street Studios in San Fransisco, DONT TELL features five tunes penned solo by Kathleen along with a handful of co-writes with Chuck Prophet, Stacey Earle, Toby Slater and Sandy Stewart. The San Fransisco crew of Prophet (Guitars/Bass), Paul Revelli (Drums), Danny Eisenburg (Hammond/Piano), Tom Heyman (Pedal Steel) and JJ Weisler (Guitar) are joined by London’s Simon Alpin (Guitars/Bass) and Grand Drives Julian Wilson contributed organ and vocals.
Kathleen`s lyrics have deep connections with the latent sexual and emotional paradoxes all around us. She is blessed with the lateral insight to pluck the beauty out of the brackish backwash. Relationship dynamics are turned inside out, meanings spun on their head, political warlord threads teased,de-lacqered and laid out naked in the street. Pregnant silences are decoded and given resonance.
Roaring, yet fragile, strong, and with feeling, Kathleen`s bag is 4 dimensional, chameleon-like, politiscised and leaves no carbon footprint.
Paul Hawkins for hesterglock 7/7
EXCLUSIVE LIVE TRACK taken from the limited edition Live at Eddies Attic Tour CD - listen to Traffic Starts To Hum here This live CD will be available soon............
SOLO ACOUSTIC TOUR STARTS FEB 20th
Kathleen interviewed on The Brink HERE
a superb release, a little different from the norm and having an alternative edge
MAVERICK
smart and aware songwriter, both politically and emotionally and the album Dont Tell a record of rare quality
BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS
Prophet and Alpin have woken the guilty preacher, smoked his last cigarette and served him up a condemned mans breakfast whilst Kathleen`s songs challenge his congregation
THE BRINK
sinner, songwriter and expatriate
CHUCK PROPHET
these two men have produced an album of casual brilliance, letting the songs rise in the swirling swell of 21st century uncertainty
BEAT-TRACKER
Buy the critically acclaimed album DON'T TELL at cd baby
Kathleen's first album INTO THE DEEP can also be bought on cd baby , itunes and various other digital providers.
Watch the short film that accompanies the Dont Tell album track Play Me. It was shot in Houston, directed by artist filmmaker Brian Zievert and edited by Rachel Meyrick.
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