Kat Eggleston

"Kat Eggleston not only has the soul of a poet but the voice of an angel, not to mention that the lady can play a mean guitar." -Dennis Palkow, Chicago Tribune. "She is a virtuoso guitarist and hammer dulcimer player, and her songs blend vivid, often gripping, imagery with memorable lyrical melodies." -Michael Parrish, Dirty Linen. ""In my thirty-five year love afair with folk music I don't remember a time when the scene was so aburst with outstanding songwriters. Kat Eggleston, in my opinion, is one of the best." "

-Dennis Palkow, Chicago Tribune.

"She is a virtuoso guitarist and hammer dulcimer player, and her songs blend vivid, often gripping, imagery with memorable lyrical melodies."
-Michael Parrish, Dirty Linen.

""In my thirty-five year love afair with folk music I don't remember a time when the scene was so aburst with outstanding songwriters. Kat Eggleston, in my opinion, is one of the best." "
-Sonny Thomas, The Fiddle and Bow Folk Society

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 has four CD's released, three of which are available from Waterbug Music, one from Redwing Music. Additionally, she is one of the lead singers of The Otters, and has made a CD with Kate MacLeod.

Kat Eggleston's songs touch a wide range of life's experiences with unusual clarity and authority. On Second Nature we're in for honest lyrics honestly sung. In a clear alto with flawless intonation, Kat Eggleston goes straight to the lyrical and emotional truth of every word and every note. Her musings on home, childhood, and her father's garden are gems of direct, unassuming plainspokenness. "Fury" and "The Stranger" - the first a narration of domestic violence, the second a surprising, slightly oblique tale of an abortion told to a friend - push hard at our senses and then demand we return again to pick up the pieces we dropped on first hearing, pieces that fill in another and another of the gaps in our comprehension of these difficult and personal experiences.