On the album:
Chuck Prophet, Simon Alpin, Tom Heyman,
Paul Wigens, Paul Revelli, Danny Eisenberg,
JJ Wiesler, Julian Wilson & Sandy Stewart
Live:
Gary Johnston, Barry Payne, Chris Rushton
and Simon Alpin
Influences
the pacific ocean, leonard cohen, john prine, lowell george, his bobness, warren zevon, doug haywood, bobbie gentry, jd souther, sandy stewart, jackson browne, terry reid, the void, the beach boys, the beatles, billy wilder, frank, django reinhardt, the velvet underground, a patch of blue, the west highlands of scotland, david bowie, joni mitchell, crosby stills nash and neil young, edward j keitzman, fran landesman, tommy wolf, motown, zucker zucker & abrahams, my 9th grade history teacher paula ogren, jesus garcia, robert o'dowd, west camino cielo, james honeyman-scott, chrissie hynde, robert johnson, bonnie raitt, topanga canyon, dolly, emmylou, my momma, buddy miller, stacey earle, robert altman, steve earle, the atlantic coast of cornwall, barbara cowart, james taylor, johnny cash, the mamas and the papas, elvis, dan navarro, tom hayden, what's behind the eyes, chuck prophet, my sons skylar, aubrey and luke, my man dorian, the boney ridge cliff face at the top of yerba buena at ventura county line, the rooftops of camberwell in london town....
Lookin' For A Leader!
Here is a short film about the making of Neil Young's LIVING WITH WAR.
I was one of the alto voices in the choir.
DON'T TELL is a prowling/pounding melange of delicately carnal, driven, in the moment songs, carved from the inside looking out and delivered from the outside glaring straight into your eyeballs..................
Kathleen's lyrics have deep connections with the latent sexual and emotional paradoxes all around us. She is blessed with the lateral insight to pluck the beauty out of the brackish backwash. Relationship dynamics are turned inside out, meanings spun on their head, political warlord threads teased, de-lacqered and laid out naked in the street. Pregnant silences are decoded and given resonance.
Roaring, yet fragile, strong, and with feeling, Kathleen's bag is 4 dimensional, chameleon-like, politiscised and leaves no carbon footprint.
Outsideleft editor, writer and publisher Lamont Paul has reviewed Kathleens Los Angeles gig. He also got ace photographer Peter Williams to take some stunning shots.
Read it here......
Watch the short film that accompanies the Dont Tell album track Play Me. It was shot in Houston, directed by artist filmmaker Brian Zievert and edited by Rachel Meyrick.
"Kathleen Haskard gives lyrics to the echo chambers of the heart's bistro. As good a groove as you get" CHARLES PLYMELL
"differently beautiful, her voice, phrasing & song structure dangle between the Americana of Lucinda Williams and the punkrock of Patti Smith. Don't Tell is a successful roots album with a hard, sound message....a plate which everyone must have in their cupboard" ROOTSTIME Dutch/Belgian Webzine (May '08)
"a superb release, a little different from the norm and has an alternative edge" MAVERICK
"smart and aware songwriter, both politically and emotionally. The album Dont Tell a record of rare quality"
BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS
"Prophet and Alpin have woken the guilty preacher, smoked his last cigarette and served him up a condemned mans breakfast whilst Kathleen..s songs challenge his congregation" THE BRINK
"sinner, songwriter and expatriate" CHUCK PROPHET
"these two men have produced an album of casual brilliance, letting the songs rise in the swirling swell of 21st century uncertainty"
BEAT-TRACKER
"an edgy alt-type restlessness and sense of subliminal tension... I'm going to ignore the title and tell everyone about Kathleen's new album!" NET RHYTHMS
Hey! Thanks Kathleen. Hope to catch you again. I was just knocked out by your vocals, especially the unaccompanied song at the end. A really inspirational touch. Take care! MarkT
Hi Kathleen, I've been on email mostly. My friend, Grant Hart came to visit. He's going on tour foe his new cd. Hot Wax. Mike Watt just went to Brazil with Iggy and Thurston went there with Sonic youth. I think they are back now Byron and Thurston said they'd bring my new book they did from Ecstatic Peace. I hope to see you this time! I've lost track of myspace cuz I must have put stuff on I don't understand. Love. cp
Up 'cuz I can't sleep as I am still jet-lagged. Just got back from NY 2 days ago. Anyhoo, saw your status....are you getting married?! If so, wishing you a lifetime of bliss in Love. Lemme know if you decide to head over this way as the last time we caught up you said maybe you'd be in France in the Autumn sometime. bisous-bisous
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
