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“Kellie Lin Knott's Comfortable instantly enchanted me. Over deft, breezy instrumentation, her vocals sound splendidly assured (when they don't sound positively alluring), and such songs as "Innuendo," "In Africa," "Salt and Sand," and "Pearl" showcase lyrics of considerable wit,
in more than one sense of that word, and no little wisdom. More succinctly: wow!”
Bryan A. Hollerbach, Contributing Editor, Playback St. Louis
- Playback St. Louis, Bryan Hollerbach, Contributing Editor
"the best on the bill is 24 year old Kellie Lin Knott, whose voice leaps around like Joni Mitchell's on "Another Verse", a song about love that manages to refer to Hemingway, Debussy, and Monet without being pretentious. Knott started singing with her father's Top-40 bar band when she was 8, and by now she's a mature singer-storyteller. She shows her gifts on "The Usual", set in a restaurant where a customer orders "the usual" as a way to "save my voice." This seems to become a metaphor of regret for a life not going anywhere - and then the song turns out, instead, wondrously, to be about gratitude for a life with certainty. How's that for insight at 24?"<br><br>Alan Rosenburg, Providence Journal<br> - Alan Rosenburg
"...This is the total package - great writer, sweet, sultry vocals and a very well developed guitar player. You'll be glad you took the time to hear this up and comer!" <br><br>Brian Wheeler, Marblehead, MA Festival of Arts<br><br> - Brian Wheeler
"She's a great guitarist. Her songs are the ones that tend to stick in your head for days afterwards. And her voice ... sweet and powerful and able to convey a range of emotions. Not to mention she's got a great stage presence..."
Meredith Tarr, House O'Muzak, CT
- Meredith Tarr
“...material draws from keen observation and personal experience held against of prism of insight and com-passion.<br>[Her] guitar playing illumi-nates far-ranging interests in jazz, folk, bluegrass and pop, yet never betrays her individual style while her voice commands authority with rich comforting<br>tones and lyrics full of wisdom.” <br><br>John Noyd, Maximum Ink Music Magazine - John Noyd
"Kellie is a creative songwriter, and a talented guitarist, employing a variety of musicial influences and digging deep into the mechanics of altered tunings, weaving stories of social and personal issues alike, and not losing her sense of humor in the process."
Bob Jensen, folkrocks.com,
Ginkgo Coffeehouse
St. Paul, MN.
- Bob Jensen
"Truly a star in the making. Her creative, entertaining patter was some of the best I've heard..."
Wendy Vickers, Local Blend Newsletter - Wendy Vickers
Discography
2005: Tres Femmes (Band CD: Kellie Lin Knott, Victoria Vox, & Stolie)
2004: Comfortable (Kellie Lin Knott solo CD)
2001: 3 (Kellie Lin Knott solo e.p.)
1999: Live From the Living Room (Kellie Lin Knott solo CD - out of print)
1997: Propinquity - Don't Touch The Art (Band CD featuring Jocelyn, Ruth & Kellie Lin Knott - out of print)
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Check out Kellie Lin on MySpace by visiting:
http://www.myspace.com/kellielin
Kellie Lin Knott
"Material draws from keen observation, insight and compassion. Her voice commands authority."
John Noyd, Maximum Ink Music Magazine
"...lyrics of considerable wit, in more than one sense of that word, and no little wisdom. More succinctly: wow!�
Bryan A. Hollerbach, Contributing Editor, Playback St. Louis
"...great writer, sweet, sultry vocals and a very well developed guitar player."
Brian Wheeler, Marblehead, MA Festival of Arts
"I started out singing in a coat closet when I was five or six. I refused to sing unless I was invisible. Eventually, with a LOT of coaxing, I went from that (singing in the closet) to acting in musical theater. I couldn't dance, but I could belt out those showtunes like nobody's business. When my dad gave me my first guitar, I took it one step further and started writing. I wanted to sing my words."
In the 20 years since emerging from the musical closet, Boston-based singer-songwriter Kellie Lin Knott has released 5 CDs and performed her original songs in festivals, house concerts, colleges & listening rooms nationwide. Songs from her most recent solo CD, Comfortable, (folk-rock) won multiple awards and media mentions. Her collaboration with fellow songwriters Victoria Vox & Stolie as the "Midwestern Super Group" Tres Femmes (pop) led to the release of a full-length band CD and two year tour received with rave reviews.
But recently, Knott's writing shifted gears from funky-folk to retro-pop. Goofing around during a 2006 sound check in Franklin, MA with headlining artist, Susan Werner, led to an impromptu jazz duet of the Patti Paige classic, "Old Cape Cod". Kellie Lin fell in love with singing the new-to-her genre of classic jazz & cabaret standards.
"It's interesting to experiment as a song interpreter, especially after performing original material for so long. Some of my early heroes were vocalists who did NOT write, like Bernadette Peters and Bette Midler. And I spent five years of my life in musical theater before I decided to hit the coffeehouse circuit in highschool.
Now I want the best of both worlds. So I'm writing a motley collection of songs that might do well in a tiny little cabaret in New York or Chicago - songs that have the character of another time, but with a few modern-day updates in theme and vernacular."
Look for Kellie Lin Knott's new CD (working title: Deja Vu) in the spring of 2009. In the meantime, watch www.kellielinknott.com and myspace for showdates, new song postings, and more!
Highlights & Credits:
2004: BEST OF BOSTON, BAYSTATE SOUND
2005: FALCON RIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE
2005: 1ST PLACE INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION
2005: 3RD PLACE MIDWEST SONG COMPETITION
2005: FINALIST SOUTH FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL SONG COMP
2005: FINALIST MINNESOTA FOLK FESTIVAL SONG COMP
2005: HONORABLE MENTION, GREAT AMERICAN SONG CONTEST
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