Artist: Edith Frost
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Edith Frost – Launching her lovebeams
Edith Frost has done a lot of things in life with little pause for deliberation. A couple years out of college, she moved from Austin, Texas, to New York with a boyfriend, mostly because she’d come into a small amount of money and the city sounded like fun. Six years later, she relocated again on [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Edith Frost – Wonder Wonder
The wallflower in the midst of friends and colleagues, but always truly alone and separate: Edith Frost understands this person. On one level, that’s because she garners obvious comparisons to other female singer-songwriters — a confident similarity to Liz Phair in the vocals; a curious resemblance to Lida Husik in her love of bells and [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Kelly Kessler / Edith Frost / Texas Rubies / Jane Baxter Miller / Kelly Hogan / Jon Langford / Heather McAdams / Anastasia Davies / Anna Fermin / Neil Pollack – Honky Tonk Living Room – The Hideout (Tucson, AZ)
Kelly Kessler and Jane Baxter Miller began their country career as the Texas Rubies in 1989 in a setting that couldn’t have been more urban: Chicago subway stations. Their favorite venues, though, were living rooms, and the biggest place that still felt like a living room to them was Club Lower Links, where the pair [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Edith Frost – Telescopic
With a pure snowfall of distortion, bending, swirling chords, and a cool, clear voice that rises into the stratosphere like a singular, heavenly choir, Edith Frost’s second album, Telescopic, walks the line between tradition and innovation. Teethed on old country standards, this 34-year-old Texas native, who now lives in Chicago, marries her soft vocals with [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Edith Frost – “Evangeline” (4-song 7″)
When I was little, my mother used to sing a tragic Japanese song to me that would send chills up and down my spine. It was always one of my favorite songs. Edith Frost’s new single has the same melancholy effect. There’s a pervasive sadness in her songs, a haunting and beautiful fragility in the [...]
