Karling Abbeygate
Rootsy, authentic-style country music is currently enjoying a revival. National television broadcasts the Americana Music Awards; and front-porch country music scenes are thriving in places as unlikely as Brooklyn.
Enter British-born songstress Karling Abbeygate. Raised on a diet of Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, and Loretta Lynn by a British mother and a Kansan father in Norwich, England, the singer has returned to those roots, changing from an ersatz alt-rock Gwen Stefani into a one-woman 1950s and 60s country music revival.
Karling Abbeygate may have just enough sly punkitude to popularize this anachronistic sound, which extends to the clean but deliciously old-fashioned arrangements.
Abbeygate's eponymous CD is comprised of a set of 'lost' country songs of the 50s and 60s plus a handful of Abbeygate's originals. The latter prove her to be a skilful songwriter, with a sensibility informed by but not enslaved to the old-time country tropes she sings so naturally.
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