Kate Redgate Music

For all the rebel-rousers, alt-country outlaws and heart on your sleeve story-tellers - this one’s for you. Kate Redgate’s music is a mixture of rock and roll, folk, roots-rock and country. The result of a high school dropout using time well spent absorbing her early influences: the ones she heard as a kid on the loudspeakers at the Illinois Boots and Saddle Club, the ones she saved money and hitched rides to buy recordings of at the local record store, and the ones she waited to hear on the radio, cassette recorder button ready, so she could rewind and playback songs over and over learning chords and writing down lyrics. The Stones and the Grateful Dead, X and the Replacements, Pretenders and Joni Mitchell, Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris… You get the drift. After some years in the dark, Kate is re-emerging onto the New England music scene and beyond with a suitcase full of new songs and new energy. Producer Jon Nolan says that "Life will take a swing at you, and sometimes it pulls a knife. Light Under The Door is Kate stepping toward it with a roll of pennies tucked in her fist." And the Alternate Root's Jeff Munger calls her release "Another home run" for the Rum Bar