Kate Earl

Kate Earl | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Universal Republic
• ASIN: B002P6TA8U
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,214 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

have so many hours of dreaming logged in at my parents gas station in Chugiak, Alaska. Ring up a customer- dream, stock the shelves-dream, mop the floors- dream, plow the snow-dream... I had spent my whole life in this remote town asking the question "what am i gonna do with myself if i stay here?" so as soon as i had saved enough for a ticket and a guitar I moved to LA.

I needed to find out... my Dutch/Welsh father dropped out of 6th grade to survive the Great Depression by picking cotton for bowls of beans until he lied about his age to serve during the Korean War to support his parents... he was a self made man...he built our gas station with his own hands...he taught me to follow my bliss... my Filipino mother who left her parents to board in another town and walked miles in the rain with a banana leaf for an umbrella to go to school, having sewed her own uniform and cooked her meals on a little fire as a child, beleived in the american dream and made a new life in alaska with greater possibilities for her children...she taught me that wit, intuition, resolve and improvisation can go a long way...the rest is left to fate or luck or the combustion of our individual spark.

with common sense, hard work and manual labor my upbringing at the gas station, pursuing music was a luxury, it was not hard for me to save a lump of change and go to the city...did the Hollywood thing hittin the streets with the demo i made at my friends house...at the time those were the only songs i had written...I mean I had played piano and sang in church since I was yay high but I was going by the seat of my pants, figuring out my sound as I wrote...since Fate Is The Hunter I have been developing my sound under the guidance of Tommy Mottola...I'm in good hands, after all he is " the architect of dreams ".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love her voice and songs, November 5, 2009

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C'est moi (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kate Earl (Audio CD)

Kate Earl's new CD is packed with a wide range of sounds: some fun shh-bop nods to the 60s, some soulful ballads, some torch songs. Her voice is lovely and never outdone by the instrumentals. Check out the lyrics as you listen; this girl is a storyteller. Looking forward to the next collection!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive, August 24, 2009

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Darren Payne "itzdarren" (Morrison, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kate Earl (MP3 Download)

Slick, mellow, yet oddly intense soft rock. Her melodies and rhythms are addictive. The lyrics are personal and thought provoking enough to keep one interested,... and I just like the sound of her voice. While some songs are better than others, there isn't a bad apple in the barrel, which is a HUGE difference between Kate and most other female artists in this genre. I'm truly glad I happened onto her.
Good luck, Kate, and God Bless. Look forward to more from you.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Music Within Makes Me Whole and a World That I Built on My Own, August 22, 2009

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Scooter McGavin (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kate Earl (MP3 Download)

Two people that Kate Earl probable hates hearing about are Sarah Palin and Jewel as the newcomer is also from Alaska and those two are the only people to make a name for themselves in Continental US since Steward's Folly unless you are a basketball fan that knows Carlos Boozer is also from the state. Like Jewel, Earl is a singer-songwriter and no she has never spent anytime living in a car. And Earl's self titled album definitely isn't some coffeehouse fair like her Alaskan predecessor.

Kate Earl should fit in pretty well with the other female singer-songwriters of the decade with songs like Melody fitting perfectly between the latest from Coblie Caillet and Sara Bareilles, but Earl has an music appreciation that seems to date back to the girl groups of the sixties as Only in Dreams could have fit on the radio back in the sixties between Diana Ross and Martha Reeves with Earl paying tribute to doo-wop in the middle of Melody. Basically Earl sounds like Cat Power had she ever cared about pop sensibilities.

But Kate Earl is plenty diverse, besides the present day pop hook of Melody and classic sound of Only in Dreams, All I Want and When You're Ready have heavy dance beats to them. Nobody and Can't Treat Me That Way are sleek songs that could fit in at the local cabaret. Golden Street is a clap heavy jam with a great synth groove to it and Learning to Fly sounds like an updated version of The Wall of Sound. While Impossible is your token girl anthem for the album. All the while with the introspective lyrics that are as good as any of her contemporaries. Soon we may have a third Alaskan for us in the lower forty-eight to point to.