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Album Review

Kate Maki The Sun Will Find Us
self-published

Article written by Ged M
Jul 11, 2005.

A couple of plays of ‘The Sun Will Find Us’ confirms that Kate Maki doesn’t fit comfortably in the niche marked ‘country rock’. A native of Sudbury, Ontario (hence a Canadian playing Americana) she gave up being a grade school teacher in 2003 to follow a career in music. You can hear Dylan, the Byrds and Calexico within the eleven tracks here but also jazz and, in the excellent ‘Mid March Blues’ some boundary-blurring Southern country-soul with a brilliant Memphis Shoals-type horns section.

The album progresses from pure country (‘Old Guitar’) to melodic, Byrds-ian ‘First Impression’ and the tender lament of Dylan-esque ‘Another Storm’. All the songs are her own, which gives the record a pleasing vitality, and she’s helped out by members of Canada’s indie-country-folk elite, including Royal City, the Guthries, the Heavy Blinkers, Buck 65 and Ox. Even with this support the thing that stays with you after hearing the record is her voice: warm, tender, intimate, soulful and vibrant. Sometimes you think of saying to musicians: “don’t give up your day job”; it sounds like Kate Maki made a sensible decision.

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