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Where The Mangoes Are
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Kate’s songs and vocals are as distinctive as her self-taught guitar technique. Where the Mangoes Are, her first CD for Appleseed and fourth solo release overall, continues her ascension into broader public recognition with twelve songs, all but two of them originals, that showcase her clear, tender soprano voice, her vulnerable but resilient lyrical outlook, and crisp, fingerpicked guitar playing. Two songs on Where the Mangoes Are, “Mercy” and “Softhearted Girl,” have both already won first place honors in the Plowshares Songwriting Competition and the Susquehanna Songwriting Contest in 2004; a third,Go Down Moses, won the 2002 Mountain Stage NewSong Festival competition, and a fourth, the darkly seductive “Lemon Marmalade,” was a finalist in the 2003 Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest. An earlier recording of “Mercy,” co-written with friend Anne Lindley, as were seven other Mangoes songs, also received enormous folk show airplay prior to the recent U.S. Presidential elections for its troubled view of “people pinned to the wall by a crazy man’s knife” and a society in which her “neighborhood gets smaller as Bush comes to shove.”Sympathetic accompaniment in styles ranging from fresh acoustic folk-pop to personalized Americana by the CD’s producer, multi-instrumentalist Scott Petito, lead guitarist Shulman, Mindy Jostyn (accordion, violin, harmonica, backing vocals), and drummer Sam Zucchini illuminates and burnishes Kate’s own deft guitarwork and beautifully expressive voice on this understated but memorable embodiment of the contemporary folk/singer-songwriter genre at its finest. Only $11.98 - Click here to buy now! |