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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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From the Blogs

  • Enter to win a signed copy of 'Steve Earle: The Warner Bros. Years' box set
    Ever since his 1986 debut (and, in some ways, even before that), Steve Earle has been one of the most prolific and distinctive singer-songwriters on the Amerciana/alt/country/rock scene. His 15 studio albums have encompassed political protest music, bluegrass, rock and roll, Townes Van Zandt covers, and just flat-out, darn-good genre-defying music. His work […]
  • Ep#144 Kenny Roby
    On episode 144 of the Americana Music Show, Kenny Roby talks about the characters in Memories & Birds, singing in a natural voice, cowboy movie music, and “doing the Prince thing.”   Plus rock and roll from I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House, Brooklyn honkytonk from Maynard and the Musties, classic soul from Swamp Dogg, evangelical stomp from Guthri […]
  • Guy Clark's "My Favorite Picture of You" is touching and topical
    By Ken Paulson Like Kris Kristofferson’s recent Feeling Mortal, Guy Clark’s  My Favorite Picture of You reflects the years. On the new album,  due July 23 on Dualtone,  Clark’s voice is softer and weathered. But if time has  taken a physical toll, it’s made the music matter more. This… […]
  • Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Wembley Stadium (London, UK. June 15th 2013)
    I hate large stadium arenas but I adore Bruce Springsteen. I’m with the purists who argue that shows in such venues are much less satisfying than in smaller, intimate venues but, but, but….Springsteen is one of those artists who make a large venue seem small. For him it’s all about the music and the energy of the performance – no laser beams, no pyrotechnics […]
  • When politics met Americana in 1976
    One of the pleasures of being of a certain age is that you can literally rack up decades of seeing great musicians and attending gigs of all shapes and sizes. A recent BBC documentary about The Eagles jarred my memory about one such event in (gulp) 1976.  I was a Brit newbie in America and was taken to a political fund raiser for then (and now) California Go […]
  • Father's Day: Songs About Dad
    This is the weekend where we examine the impact great fathers have made upon history.  From the Bible, where the landscape is littered with the actions of fathers.  Who could forget the long walk Abraham and his son took in Genesis?  Adam, the first father, raised a fine bunch of stand-up children.  And what about the Big Father himself -- Jesus' daddy […]

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