Karling Abbeygate - 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. 

• They Know It's All Over
• Beg Steal & Borrow
• Put Yourself In My Place
• Just Love Me One More Time
• Someone Can Steal Him From You
• Home Home Home
• Tonight Is Gonna Last
• Ive Got You On My Mind
• Many Happy Hangovers To You
• Someone Else's Man
• It Don't Take Much To Get Me By
• Who Left The Door To Heaven Open