{"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":"<p>We&#8217;ve been watching <strong>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\/&#8221;roots&#8221; artists), ACL has supplied some of the more magical music moments on our televisions (recent sets by <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30455738\"><strong>The Decemberists<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/48324902\">Bon Iver<\/a><\/strong> are stunning examples).\u00a0 It&#8217;s rare that we don&#8217;t know an artist appearing on the show, so we were taken aback when we saw an ACL preview featuring <strong>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<p>And then we listened around and came around (in the process overcoming the fact that she appeared on the second season of <strong>American Idol<\/strong>).\u00a0 Edmonson put out a well-received album of jazzy covers in 2009 entitled <strong>Take to the Sky<\/strong>, and then followed it up this Spring, courtesy of <strong>Kickstarter<\/strong>, with a mostly-originals album entitled <strong>Way Down Low<\/strong> that is turning critics heads.\u00a0 Mining a vein that includes<strong> Rickie Lee Jones, Blossom Dearie<\/strong>, and even <strong>Joni Mitchell<\/strong>, Edmonson&#8217;s songs are well-crafted and sung (if occasionally cloying and slightly-twee). \u00a0 Check out her ACL preview below and then her <strong>Tiny Desk Concert<\/strong> on<strong> 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<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55970258?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/55970258\">Kat Edmonson on Austin City Limits &#8220;Lucky&#8221;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/austincitylimits\">Austin City Limits<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/event\/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=162108002\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been watching Austin City Limits 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\/&#8221;roots&#8221; artists), ACL has supplied some of the more magical music moments on our televisions (recent sets by The Decemberists and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}