Kathleen Haskard
Don't Tell
© 2007 Kathleen Haskard (5060051617546)
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Kathleen Haskard is 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 new album DON'T TELL is released on her own Howlin' Hound label and distributed by Proper Music.
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.
A political ACTIVIST since her teenage years in California, she worked for Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy. 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.
Bug Music saw the songwriting jewels glinting in Kathleen's eye and welcomed her deft touch and panoramic vision and signed her to coincide with her first album (INTO THE DEEP) release in 1998. Her co-writers include Nashville based Stacey Earle, Texan songstress Sandy Stewart (Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner Belinda Carlisle, Bow Wow Wow) and in Los Angeles Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro (The Bangles, Pat Benetar, The Temptations, The Four Tops).
Her cuts include a song on Stacey Earle's debut album, Simple Gearle. The song 'Losers Weep', features Steve Earle on backing vocals. There's also 'My Own Way Of Doin' Things' on Lowen & Navarro's, Scratch at the Door.
Kathleen has tuned up and asked for more guitar in the monitors with Chuck Prophet, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Lowen & Navarro, David Poe,
Ed Harcourt, Suzy Boguss, David Lindley, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Renbourn, Clyde Stubblefield, Nick Harper & Glen Tilbrook, The Tiny and Robyn Hitchcock.
She has also worn her songs on her sleeve at the Edinburgh Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Mexico's International Guitar Festival at Zihuatanejo and exercised her throat chakra singing at American festivals including Durango, SXSW, NXNW, the Folk Alliance and Texas Rock Fest.
Her new album Don't 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, Don't 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 (Gtr) are joined by London's Simon Alpin (Guitars/Bass) Bristol's Paul Wigens (Drums) and Grand Drive's Julian Wilson contributed organ and vocals.
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. These two men have produced an album of casual brilliance, letting the songs rise in the swirling swell of 21st century uncertainty.
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 (Yeah, you heard right, FOUR) dimensional, chameleon-like, politiscised and leaves no carbon footprint.
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It's a real pleasure to listen your CD.
author: ScherrerFirst I ear the song "Like a pearl necklace", and I fall in love with and then I listen the rest of the CD and I said: She's one of the best female artist folk-singer and song writer I have ear this last 15 years, Bravo Kathleen a fan from Switzerland.
Beautiful, wonderful music from a beautiful and wonderful person.
author: Shirley RobersonKathleen is even BETTER than K.D. Lang, and so is this album! I loved Kathleen's first CD, “Into the Deep”, and I ADORE this one, and the songstress herself! I recently had the extreme pleasure and good fortune to see and meet her during her recent West Coast USA Tour with Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart. Kathleen sang several wonderful tunes from this new album, and from "Into the Deep." And she's as sweet and lovely in person as the person you hear on this WONDERFUL album! Beautiful music from a beautiful human being.
The deliciously deep-voiced troubadour ..... at her best, she recalls KD Lang.
author: Jon Bream / Minneapolis Star TribuneA California singer-songwriter who now calls London home. Haskard has a resume that confirms her craft and her politics. She's written tunes with Lowen & Navarro and Stacey Earle and sung in the choir on Neil Young's "Living With War". The deliciously deep-voiced troubadour is about to release "Don't Tell", a moody collection of Americana produced by Chuck Prophet and Simon Alpin. At her best, she recalls KD Lang.