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WXPN
“Katie Herzig's musical progression, from her initial role as the drummer and back-up singer in now-defunct Newcomers Home to her current prominence among the most promising independent singer-songwriters of her generation, traces a trajectory of uninhibited artistic potential.”
NPR
“Apple Tree marks the culmination of Katie Herzig's grassroots success and critical acclaim: Her third album is a collection of heartfelt, beautifully executed songs that put her writing and considerable vocal talent in the spotlight.”
PASTE
"[Katie Herzig's] latest, Apple Tree, pushes her now-signature style — brightly textured acoustic pop that’s clever yet sincere, sunny but grounded—to exquisite new heights. It’s Herzig’s most accomplished work to date."
BILLBOARD
"Herzig's gifts as a songwriter have stood out perhaps due to the fully produced nature of her songs, recorded with care and a bigness that transcends the potentially damning status of just being another girl in Nashville with a guitar. With a full backing band, string sections and her understated vocals front and center, "Apple Tree" is an adventurous and playful album perfect for the triple A set."
USA TODAY - Pick of the Week: I Want to Belong to You, Katie Herzig
"The Nashville-based troubadour has an endearingly offbeat, tremulous soprano that suits this song's fragile sunniness".
In 2006, after eight years of fronting the critically acclaimed Colorado-based band, Newcomers Home, Katie Herzig moved to Nashville to strike it solo. Before leaving Colorado, she single-handedly recorded and produced Weightless, a tour-de-force of innovative sonics and songwriting. Since then Herzig’s song “Heaven’s My Home” received a 2007 Grammy nomination and she has steadily become a fixture in Nashville’s up-and-coming indie music scene. Herzig’s songs have been featured on NPR, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, One Tree Hill, Bones, The Secret Life of Bees, Sex and the City The Movie Vol. 2 Soundtrack, and episodes of television’s highest rated drama, Grey’s Anatomy. Katie has toured with the Tenn out of Tenn tour, Hotel Café Tour, PASTE Magazine songwriter tour and has supported national acts such as The Fray, Brandi Carlile, Shawn Colvin, Aqualung and others. In 2008, Katie is featured in Billboard Magazine’s “Now Hear This” as well as one of PASTE Magazine’s 25 “Best of What’s Next” Artists. She continues to out-do herself with each new musical endeavor. Her latest is “Apple Tree”: a spellbinding, uniquely immersive listening experience that manages to be at once playful and impassioned--challenging and comfortable---intimate and epic… which is exactly what listeners have come to expect of Katie Herzig.
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KATIE HERZIG
Apple Tree
Marion-Lorraine Records KH 003
Nashville based singer-songwriter Katie Herzig is set for the physical CD release of Apple Tree - her most adventurous and satisfying album yet - on April 21st, 2009 (Marion-Lorraine Records).
PASTE Magazine recently included Katie Herzig in their "Best of What's Next - 25 Artists to Ignore at Your Own Peril" roundup, and said that Apple Tree, "pushes her now-signature style - brightly textured acoustic pop that's clever yet sincere, sunny but grounded - to exquisite new heights. It's Herzig's most accomplished work to date." Performing Songwriter magazine adds, "Katie Herzig is quickly becoming a treasured female artist. This album boasts beautifully and thoughtfully crafted songs and, most strikingly, Herzig's endearing vocals."
While Apple Tree is every bit as melodic and emotionally incisive as Herzig's previous discs, it is nonetheless a bold and assertive step forward. While previously working as her own producer, Herzig teamed up with Nashville producer and multi-instrumentalist Cason Cooley for five of Apple Tree's tracks, as well as two members of The Fray team, guitarist David Welsh and their producer, Aaron Johnson, on the track "Hologram." Says Herzig, "The song 'Hologram' was written after a conversation I'd had with Aaron, who said he missed how I used to belt when I sang with Newcomers Home. So it felt appropriate to record that song with him."
Though Herzig is the sole author of most of Apple Tree, two of the songs, "I Will Follow" and "I Want To Belong To You", were co-written with well-known songwriter Kim Richey. Her co-producers also helped to weave several local Nashville musicians into the project, including recording artists Sandra McCracken and Ruby Amanfu, both of whom lent their voices to a few of Apple Tree's songs.
As on her previous release, Weightless, Herzig worked side-by-side with Grammy winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, John Prine), who not only mixed the album, but helped massage two years' worth of songs and the work of three different producers into a cohesive artistic statement. According to Herzig, "My last record, Weightless was very much a do-it-yourself, homemade project, but Apple Tree became very collaborative and pushed me to places that I could not have gone on my own."
In addition to her time in the studio recording Apple Tree, Katie has toured as part of Nashville's acclaimed Ten Out of Tenn tour as well as The Hotel Café Tour, and as a solo artist supporting Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin and The Fray.
In 2006, after fronting the critically acclaimed Colorado-based band, Newcomers Home, and releasing her first solo record, Watch Them Fall, as a side project, Herzig retreated to her bedroom studio to focus on her music. There, she single-handedly recorded and produced Weightless, a tour-de-force of innovative sonics and songwriting whose tracks have been prominently featured on NPR, KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, and two episodes of NBC-TV's Grey's Anatomy.
Following the release of Weightless, Herzig left Colorado for Nashville and immediately started to catch the attention of other artists. Her song "Heaven's My Home" received a 2007 Grammy nomination for best country performance by The Duhks. Herzig's had several songs from Apple Tree featured in past months on One Tree Hill, Lipstick Jungle, and Ghost Whisperer. "Look at You Now" was featured on the Sex and the City the Movie Soundtrack, and "I Hurt Too" will appear in the Lionsgate film, My Sister's Keeper in 2009. Her new single, "Wish You Well" hits AAA radio this winter.
Listen to the fruits of Katie Herzig's labor: Apple Tree… a spellbinding, uniquely immersive listening experience that deftly manages to be at once playful and impassioned - challenging and comfortable - intimate and epic. |
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