Kaki King

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Kaki King’s career has been enthralling, as it has evolved from its virtuosic acoustic busker beginnings in the subways of New York to creating cerebral soundscapes with Tortoise’s John McIntyre to being included on Rolling Stone magazine’s short list of “Guitar Gods” to collaborations with Foo Fighters and The Mountain Goats. In her 10-year career, King has released six full lengths and two EPs. She has scored for television and film, most notably alongside Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook as composers for Sean Penn’s Into the Wild for which she received a Best Original Score Golden Globe nomination. King also contributed to the Grammy-nominated August Rush soundtrack, and in 2009, Ovation launched their Kaki King signature guitar model, which is now for sale worldwide.

King’s 2010 record, Junior (Rounder), was her most concise artistic statement with a band yet, bringing her unique guitar style into power rock-trio form. Spin awarded the album eight out of 10 stars, and USA Today called the songs “bracing and fascinating.”

With King’s latest record, Glow (Velour), she will return to her acoustic roots. Glow is both indescribable and definitive, an evocative, exuberant collection of genre agnostic soundscapes, rich with wit, theme, and inspired invention. “This is a guitar record,” she says. “This is the sound of a person playing guitar. Whatever additions we made, the fundamental of this record is still one person playing a guitar. That’s who I am.”

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REVIEWS

‘“King is a genre unto herself”
Rolling Stone

“There are guitar players who are good, and there are guitar players who are really good. And then there’s Kaki King”
Performing Songwriter

“…evokes elements of jazz, classical, folk, pop and rock”
Guitar World