Kat is one of the most accomplished singers / songwriters today.  Elating audiences with her beautiful blend of sweet melodies and gentle honesty, Kat's music is universally appreciated by young and old, alike.  Kat now has three CD's released and available from Waterbug Music.

First Warm Wind

A CD reissue of Eggleston's vibrant, beautifully produced 1990 cassette debut, includes the subtle object / memory associations of "China"; the oft-requested "Rose Tattoo," and "Cherry Tree:"

To all your angry questions on the day I said goodbye, for years I've wondered what I should have said for my reply, But you were far from understanding what it is to love a man, who is formed of silk and razors, and wounds with velvet hands...

Dark Side of the Moon ("Don't worry about me, I'll be all right in a while, just taking shorter steps to go a longer mile"); the spirited "Equinox," "True Story" and the stirring, hopeful title song, written for a friend recovering from his wife's suicide. Sequenced to bring the listener through the seasons from Spring to Spring.  With co-producer David Lange (keyboards), Michael Tomlinson and Steve Guthe (vocals), George Ramsey (recorders), Matt Eggleston and Dan Mohler (bass), Janet Harrington (oboe), Mike McNamara (cello) and Kristin Quigley-Brye (french horn).

Outside Eden

"A gentle, sensitive writer with a sobering dose of maturity and smarts ...not only highly literate, but a top-notch musician as well." - Rapport.

Kat Eggleston explores the truth and consequences of intense passion, on a collection spiced with humor, insight, and a flair for the miraculous.  Nine provocative originals feature Kat's distinctive alto voice and eloquent fingerpicked guitar: Outside Eden includes "Go To The Water," "Brian," "Mirror, Mirror," and "Meeting Stucky at the Gas Station," a family story from WWI; Woody Guthrie's "Pastures of Plenty," Jano's "Again, Again!" and the Scots border ballad, "Flower of Northumberland." A mix of solo and band tracks, with Gary Krolak, fretless bass; John Rice, guitar and mandolin; Andrew Bird, violin; and Dave Rush, percussion. Engineered by Steve Rashid.

"Not only is Kat Eggleston one of the best and most versatile singer-songwriters I've ever heard - there are a whole lot of more celebrated people out there who can't carry her fingerpicks - but every time I hear her she gets distinctly better. If this keeps up she's in serious danger of becoming a national treasure." - Peter S. Beagle

Second Nature 

Kat Eggleston's songs touch a wide range of life's experiences with unusual clarity and authority. On Second Nature we're in for honest lyrics honestly sung. In a clear alto with flawless intonation, Kat Eggleston goes straight to the lyrical and emotional truth of every word and every note. Her musings on home, childhood, and her father's garden are gems of direct, unassuming plainspokenness. "Fury" and "The Stranger" - the first a narration of domestic violence, the second a surprising, slightly oblique tale of an abortion told to a friend - push hard at our senses and then demand we return again to pick up the pieces we dropped on first hearing, pieces that fill in another and another of the gaps in our comprehension of these difficult and personal experiences.

This collection of eight original, two traditional, and two cover songs hangs together beautifully in Eggleston's trim, no-nonsense arrangements. She and her guitar are discreetly and variously backed by fretless bass, piano, keyboard, cello, mandolin, uillean pipes, whistle, and bouzouki.

"The two cover songs are inevitably by two other tough, uncompromising songwriters-Jano Brindisi ("On My T.V.") and Andrew Calhoun ("Day In and Night Out"). Second Nature is songwriting and singing of singular quality, one of the jewels of the past year." - Dwight Thurston, The Canton Voice

The moment I said I was fine. Somehow you knew I was lying. One friend could be told. Now if they ask you where I've been, Tell 'em you don't know. I've been to the stranger...

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"Trouble" genre: Country Blues
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	CD: Second Nature   Label: Waterbug Records Credits: Kat Eggleston
"Outside Eden" genre: Folk
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"The Parting Glass" genre: Celtic
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	CD: Nature of the Beat   Label: Waterbug Records

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