Upcoming “Tie Me To You” includes re-imagined covers,
in addition to “Everywhere,” a beautiful Grace original streaming now at American
Songwriter.
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Kathleen
Grace as photographed by Emilia Pare
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Kathleen
Grace | In The Press
“Genre-blurring dexterity...” — JazzTimes
“Smart, alluring and evocative.” — The Washington Post
“Imaginative talent on the rise.” — Los Angeles Times
“Echoes of Linda
Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.” — Downbeat
“Simple
beauty and subtle wisdom.” — LA Weekly
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“It is said that surrounding yourself with successful
people can lead to great success. Not only do they have the experience, but
they are generally willing to share what it really takes to get to the level
they’re at. For Kathleen Grace,
soaking in as much knowledge as possible was essential when working with Grammy®-nominated Jazz pianist Larry Goldings.”
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Kathleen Grace with Larry Goldings
Tie Me To You
(Monsoon Records)
April 17th, 2020
Track Listing:
01. Tie Me To You
(Kathleen Grace & Larry Goldings)
02. Where Or When
(Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart) (STREAM)
03. Everywhere
(Kathleen Grace) (STREAM)
04. John The Revelator (Traditional)
05. Berceuse
(George Moustaki)
06. The Thrill Is Gone (Ray Henderson & Lew Brown)
07. Embarcadero
(Kathleen Grace & Darek Oleszkiewicz)
08. Love For Sale
(Cole Porter)
09. What’ll I Do
(Irving Berlin) (VIDEO)
10. I’ll Follow The Sun (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
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Kathleen Grace with Larry Goldings | About
Much like her music, Kathleen Grace’s career has expanded in recent years beyond its
jazz and folk roots that saw her appearing at The Montreux Jazz Festival and The
Kennedy Center for the Arts, with performances alongside rock band Portugal The Man at Coachella and throughout My Morning Jacket leader Jim James’ solo release, Uniform
Distortion.
Kathleen Grace’s
latest album, Tie Me To You, was born from a place of awakening, the kind
that can only trigger massive change, great loss and also, hope. It is the
product of finally seeing yourself fully for the first time and the price you pay to do so.
In her case, it cost her a marriage that had consumed
her entire adult life. It also marked the birth of a new woman, one who would
call a new man to her side — a man who, ultimately, could not stay.
Amidst this love and loss, Grace barely slept. Instead, she was flooded with music day and
night — poems, songs, and melodies. She
imagined recording this new music freely, in the moment, with no big production
or fixes; she envisioned simple songs broken down to their most basic parts.
Soon, she picked up the phone and called Larry Goldings, a legendary keyboardist
who has worked with James Taylor, Norah Jones, John Mayer, and others. She said simply, “Listen, I need to make a
record. And you’re the only one in the world I can make it with. Can you call
me back?”
He did.
And so it was that Grace found herself in the only place left that made any sense: a
recording studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake, California.
The pair recorded live in the low light of the wood-framed building, often
producing songs in single takes. What emerged is a portrait of a woman exposed
as she mourns what she must let go of in order to keep reaching for herself.
The result is a new sound for Grace,
one that is more vulnerable and bold, one that embraces her eclecticism without
apology.
Grace explains, “I remember this time so clearly, the
tastes, the colors, and the sounds. The feeling of sitting next to Larry on a
piano bench without headphones and just singing. Singing songs only for me,
most of which I’d never sung before. Singing to myself and also to the men I
loved. It’s all there in the music. Forever. Trapped in a snow globe of
emotion.”
Grace and Goldings
invited masterful partners into their creation of Tie Me To You. Bass
player David Piltch (KD Lang) appears throughout the album,
and violinist Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers) is a special guest
appearing as both a soloist and string section.
The project was championed by Grammy®-winning
engineer Sheldon Gomberg, who
offered up his studio for the better part of a year. A song record at its core,
Tie
Me To You features original music by both Grace and Goldings as
well as covers of pieces by French icon Francois
Hardy, blues great Son House,
and The Beatles, and standards by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers
& Hart.
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Hear the
inventive reimagining of 1937 Rodgers and Hart classic “Where Or When” at Jazziz
or at the link above featuring Larry Goldings on the pocket
piano.
“Years ago, after one of Larry’s shows, a few us of ended up downstairs at the bar, and Larry started playing,” Kathleen Grace remembers. “It was the
first time we ever made music together and I asked him some of his favorite
songs, and on that list was ‘Where Or
When.’ I was falling in love when I made this album, and it was the kind of
love that felt like I'd lived it before. I think the pocket piano Larry plays on the track creates that
sense of being drawn in and hypnotized by that sense of love deja vu.”
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Kathleen Grace | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
