February 21st, 2008 r8e8rcom
Thanks to everyone for coming out to ‘The Blue Album Group’ debut on Tuesday. I know I complained about there being too many people, but it really meant a lot to have you all there to support us. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times I’ve taken the stage, it certainly never will be like riding a bike. Having not been on a stage for well over a year has siphoned every last bit of confidence I had ever imagined I possessed. The days prior to the projects debut were spent making mental provisions for the show, but never once did it occur to me that a Tuesday night show at Trash bar, at 8pm no less, should garner very much mental confidence training. But as I hesitated to start the guitar part that would kick off the entire show that night I suddenly felt like a kid playing his first show ever. And as much agitation as a first show can create, nervous shaky vocals, out of tune guitars, forgotten parts, and broken equipment, there’s still something magical about it.
Kaki King (born August 24, 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American Guitar Player and Vocalist from Atlanta, Georgia who moved to New York in 1998 to attend New York University. She got her start busking in the subway where her dexterous playing style attracted the attention of Velour Music Group, which signed her to a management/recording deal and released her debut album Everybody Loves You in 2003. The following year, she released her second album, Legs to Make Us Longer on Epic Records. In 2007, King branched out into film work, composing original music for several scenes in the Sean Penn-directed film Into the Wild, which also features two of her previously released songs. Her work for this film has garnered her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. In addition, she recorded two tracks for the film August Rush, in which she appears as a guitar-playing hand double. Aside from Penn, King also has a fan in Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who asked her to duet with him on “Ballad of The Beaconsfield Miners” from the Foos’ current album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.
-mark
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