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The Chicago Tribune writes that Eggleston has
“the soul of a poet but the voice of an angel, not
to mention that the lady can play a mean guitar."
Kat is one of the most accomplished singers /
songwriters today. Elating audiences with her
beautiful blend of sweet melodies and gentle
honesty, Kat's music is universally appreciated by
young and old, alike. Kat's songs touch a wide range
of life's experiences with unusual clarity and
authority.
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Growing up in South Texas, near Corpus Christi, "six
miles from the stop sign between Ingleside and
Aransas Pass," she became familiar with the life of
desperadoes and secretos obscuros. After leaving
school in Houston, she was drawn to the road. As a
teenager, she learned to hop freight trains, living
everywhere from Santa Cruz to Sonora, from Nashville
to Bogotá. Dark, quiet, and observant, she began to
fashion the vicissitudes of her existence into the
substance of her art. She met the young, brilliant,
darkly handsome Townes Van Zandt in Houston and
formed a deep, lasting connection that remains
central in her life, and the haunting beauty of
Towne's music is deeply ingrained in her music.
What Springsteen does for the streets and
swamplands of New Jersey, what Lucinda does for the
bayous and back roads of the Delta country, Bianca
does for the south Texas borderlands. Bianca's voice
ties it all together: a dark, silky mixture of
strength and vulnerability. In her music, tragedy is
always tempered with hope, or at least resilience.
And the songs speak volumes, of the romance and
danger on the borderlands.
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Not quite country, somewhere beyond folk, Holcombe’s
music is a kind of blues in motion, mapping
backwoods corners of the heart.
It’s easy to swamp Holcombe in flattering
comparisons. He plays country-blues guitar with the
orchestral punch of Richard Thompson and sings with
the laconic poise of John Prine.
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Bill writes and records at a high pace these days;
you’d never know he stopped for 25 years! It hasn’t
taken him long to begin winning Minnesota Music
awards galore and touring the UK – from a dead
standstill. (Terrible joke, check the website.) His
rich, warm voice, layered lyrics, great guitar
propel him into work with many fine musicians and
the audiences bring him back again and again. He
demonstrates all the qualities of a great
songwriter, word-smithing skills, melody, heart,
stories, rhythm, time, insight and craftsmanship
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Rad will perform his uncanny keyboard fireworks at
LilFest. Expect the unexpected: boogie woogie, core
blues, Iowa blues, New Orleans style piano, Tex Mex
and Zydeco accordion, even Mozart. If we’re all
lucky, he’ll sit in with others and illuminate many
kinds of music with his special light. He’s fresh
from playing with Jimmy LaFave and Odetta, and a
hard-working year including Richard Shindell, Andy
White and Greg Brown. Not only the darling of
LilFest, thanks to appearances at Folk Alliance in
Montreal and South by Southwest in Austin, TX, he’s
been winning audiences around the world, Italy,
Spain, Britain, even the Canary Islands. Ahead?
Switzerland, England, Ireland and more Italy. And
don't miss Blue Parade, Rad's new CD and his live CD
with Andy White, Oak Center.
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Iowa singer/songwriter Dave Moore has been a
frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion and is on
Minneapolis based Red House Records. His music
reflects many musical voyages – Dave Moore is a real
journeyman of music. He performs on guitar, button
accordion, harmonica with vocals. Alongside his
original songs, expect some blues, a bit of Tex/Mex
accordion, and even a few children's songs written
during his spells as an artist-in-residence in the
schools of Iowa. His CD Over My Shoulder was named
one of the top ten folk albums of 1990 by Pulse
Magazine. His most recent recording, Breaking Down
To 3, is co-produced by Bo Ramsey. He tours
throughout the United States and Canada. Check out
the Dirty Linen story to fully understand the deep
and but fathomable Mr. Moore.
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Danny’s a songwriter’s songwriter -- with a literacy
and complexity, and an underlying humanity, rare in
this age of sound bite attention span marketeering.
His tunes are wire frames draped with sheets of
poetry. He has some of the qualities of the greats,
though -- from Townes Van Zandt’s ageless and
understated sincerity, to Dylan’s topical relevance
and wry sharp eye for the allusively obvious, to
Dave Carter’s quiet spiritual assurity and sense
that each song was plucked whole from a tree more
than labored through, line-by-line with pen and ink.
And it all leaves you with that Leonard Cohen
after-taste, that there’s something here worth
studying as much as listening to.
Danny has a quality common to all these
preeminent writers: he has his own unique voice. He
doesn’t sound like any of those guys at all, really.
He doesn’t sound like anybody you’ve heard yet.
Truly. Stylistically and musically, Danny’s songs
range from deeply-rooted Appalachian mountain gospel
to haunted English balladry, from syncopated
Piedmont country blues to vagabond 60’s protest
folk-stumpery. His records live up to a strict
writer’s aesthetic: let the songs themselves stand
out front, and well lit.
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