'Guitarist, singer and songwriter Kate Jacobs has an angelic voice and a unique gift for inventing characters and telling stories within the format of the four-minute song. Jacobs was born in Virginia but lived around the world in her youth, as her father worked as a diplomat. At the Unitarian Church in Virginia, Jacobs and her sisters learned civil rights marching songs, many of which were variations on old gospel traditionals. Jacobs cites such early influences as Elizabeth Cotten and Pete Seeger, both o...   [ read more ]

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Originally an independent artist, Jacobs recorded The Calm Comes After, which was picked up by Bar None Records with three new cuts. The charm of this album is in Jacobs's friendly, almost naive, delivery. Her lyrics have a deeply knowing womanly innocence that really says she sees more than she says and acts on it. Think of this artist as a less-religious urban Iris Dement. Kate is supported by a sparse country-sounding band. ~ Richard Meyer, All Music Guide

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Kate Jacobs is a world traveling downhome country girl who lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. She is a storyteller who finds her stories in all sorts of places and from all kinds of people. On Hydrangea, her third album for Bar/None, she reveals that the most compelling stories are her own. This time she's found them in the attic of her parents' two hundred year-old farm house: in diaries and journals that survived the journey from pre-Revolutionary Russia to the Hudson Valley, in an uncle's paintings, and i...   [ read more ]

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