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 RALEIGH, N.C. -- Katharine Whalen, former front-person in the roaring nineties swing band
Squirrel Nut Zippers, returns to music following a short hiatus with her first solo album in seven years, Dirty Little Secret. The album hit the streets June 6 on M.C. Records.
Katharine was interviewed land performed on WUNC's "The State of Things" It broadcast statewide in North Carolina on June 2, 2006. Want to hear it?
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot060206d.mp3/view
Katharine will have the band Hobex back her up on some selected East Coast dates later this month including a taping of the syndicated The World Café and her first New York city shows.
Click here for a recent article on Katharine:
Radio has been very supportive of "Dirty Little Secret." Early airplay on KCRW – Los Angeles (including Mornings Become Eclectic), WXPN – Philadelphia, WFPK-Louisville, KY.
Radio Adds include WSYC-Shippensburg, PA, KRCL-Salt Lake City, UT, WCBE-Columbus OH, WYEP –Pittsburgh PA & MPBC-Maine Public Radio - Bangor, ME. More coming everyday so stay tuned.
Did I mention great reviews? Check these out:
"On her startling new solo album, Dirty Little Secret, out June 6 on M.C. Records, Sale sets Whalen's jazz croon against modern
electronic effects and percolating rhythms, with impeccable popcraft. The title track sounds like something Burt Bacharach might have written for Dusty Springfield." -- RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER
"Debbie Harry at her most Beguiling —ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER
"Just when you think you've got the album figured out, it shifts direction, eluding your grasp but beckoning the listener back for
another spin." --ALL MUSIC.COM (Hal Horowitz)
Squirrel Nut Zippers met with worldwide success with their second album, Hot, which sold more than a million albums on the
strength of the hit single "Hell." Riding high on that success, Whalen found she wanted to explore her inner jazz chanteuse,
forming Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad. She enjoys this opportunity to showcase her jazzier side, but comparisons to the
legendary Billie Holiday, while favorable and flattering, made her realize that she still hadn't achieved what she set out to do: to find her own, true inner voice.
After the demise of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and, more importantly, the birth of her daughter, Cecelia Mae, the North Carolina-based
artist says her focus turned more personal, more inward, and in becoming a mother, she found her voice.
Katharine further stretched her musical wings on Dirty Little Secret by co-writing lyrics with David on the songs "The Funnest Game
," "Angels Coming Home," "Meet Me By The Fire," "Blur," "The Garden," "3 Blind Mice" and "Follow."
Read the "back story" of the Squirrel Nut Zippers' breakup in the RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER:
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/439524.html
Label Contact:
Mark Carpentieri
631-754-8725
www.mc-records.com
Radio Contact:
Michael Ehrenberg
OUTSOURCE MUSIC
510.530.8262
outsrcemusic@earthlink.net
Rene Magallon
OUTSOURCE MUSIC
323.478.9915
rmagallon@earthlink.net
Booking Contact:
Sarah Hoffman
Road Work Music
sarah@roadworkmusic.com
917 940 5929
http://www.roadworkmusic.com
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