''Everybody Loves You'' is the debut

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Kaki King Kaki King (born Katherine Elizabeth King, August 24, 1979) is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and he ...

, released in 2003 (see

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Reception

In his review for

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, critic Thom Jurek wrote that "Simply put, Kaki King possesses the most original voice on the acoustic guitar in a generation. Her sound, full of gorgeous tapped melodies and popping basslines, is as deeply emotional as John Fahey's, as technically savvy as

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's, and as energetic as

Leo Kottke Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He overcame a series of personal obstacles, including parti ...

's (à la 6- and 12-String Guitar, Greenhouse, and Mudlark). Citing these legendary players is not for the sake of comparison in style or approach, but in metaphor only for she sounds only like herself... Everybody Loves You is the most auspicious, tender, and tough instrumental debut by any guitarist in a decade at least. It is singular in approach and peerless in execution; and in its poetic, raggedly graceful manner, it is simply a treasure of individuality and idiosyncratic virtuosity, visceral truth, and verve."

Track listing

All tracks written by Kaki King #"Kewpie Station" – 2:14 #"Steamed Juicy Little Bun" – 2:01 #"Carmine St." – 3:15 #"Night After Sidewalk" – 3:33 #"Happy as a Dead Pig in the Sunshine" – 3:22 #"The Exhibition" – 3:09 #"Close Your Eyes & You'll Burst into Flames" – 3:19 #"Joi" – 4:36 #"Everybody Loves You" – 3:16 #"Fortuna" – 9:36 Bonus Tracks: #"The Government" #"L Train, 1st Ave: Low" #"Kewpie Station (Version 2)" #"Steamed Juicy Little Duck"

Personnel

*Kaki King –

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Production

*Producer – Kaki King *Executive Producer – Jeff Patrick Krasno *Engineers – Brian Bauers, A.J. Tissian *Mastering – Sarah Register

References

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