{"id":14204,"date":"2012-12-20T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14204"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:01:08","slug":"watch-kat-edmonson-on-austin-city-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/watch-kat-edmonson-on-austin-city-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kat Edmonson on Austin City Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been watching Austin City Limits<\/strong> since its inception in 1976.\u00a0 While we occasionally have differed with ACL on bands included on the show (there has been a tendency to include too many marginally-talented Americana\/”roots” artists), ACL has supplied some of the more magical music moments on our televisions (recent sets by The Decemberists<\/strong> <\/a>and Bon Iver<\/a><\/strong> are stunning examples).\u00a0 It’s rare that we don’t know an artist appearing on the show, so we were taken aback when we saw an ACL preview featuring Kat Edmonson<\/strong> (to be broadcast next month).\u00a0 And then we discovered that Ms. Edmonson is an Austin native and figured ACL was just giving spotlight to one of its own.<\/p>\n

And then we listened around and came around (in the process overcoming the fact that she appeared on the second season of American Idol<\/strong>).\u00a0 Edmonson put out a well-received album of jazzy covers in 2009 entitled Take to the Sky<\/strong>, and then followed it up this Spring, courtesy of Kickstarter<\/strong>, with a mostly-originals album entitled Way Down Low<\/strong> that is turning critics heads.\u00a0 Mining a vein that includes Rickie Lee Jones, Blossom Dearie<\/strong>, and even Joni Mitchell<\/strong>, Edmonson’s songs are well-crafted and sung (if occasionally cloying and slightly-twee). \u00a0 Check out her ACL preview below and then her Tiny Desk Concert<\/strong> on NPR<\/strong> from this October.\u00a0 Time will tell, but Edmonson seems to have the style and substance necessary to become a strong presence on the scene.<\/p>\n