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It's been a Road of 6 for Kat Maslich-Bode, as in six years, the time it's taken to complete her solo debut since parting in 2004 with Peter Bradley Adams, as the duo eastmountainsouth.
If you don't know Kat here's how she decribes herself - For those of you who don't already know me, my name is Kat Maslich Bode, formerly Kat Maslich, the female half of Eastmountainsouth. I grew up in Roanoke, Virginia and always had music around me. My twin Emmy and I are the youngest of five. I'm sure listening to my brother and sister's vinyl records had something to do with my love for music and vocalists. My mother, is a pianist who still plays regularly in my hometown church and my step-father s love for music and collecting instruments still influences me greatly. My grandparents used to live down the road from Ralph Stanley and I used to attend local bluegrass festivals as a young girl and would pass by his Clinch Mountain Boy's tour bus all the time. I witnessed amazing musicians who ate, drank and breathed this genre of music. The essence of Appalachia is ingrained in the fabric of my home state. In the early 90's I packed my bags and tried to find my place in music with short-lived stints in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and Atlanta. In search of clarity, I always somehow gravitated back to Los Angeles where I felt the most comfortable in my skin. I had a chance meeting with Peter Bradley Adams for a television spot. He was one of the musical composers and I felt an instant connection. While the commercial never panned out a friend of Pete's brought him to a solo show of mine soon thereafter. As a result, I sang on a country demo he was working on, and we realized we shared similar musical tastes and songwriting styles. There was no denying the feeling of finally meeting a musical partner - someone who really understood me. We became eastmountainsouth.
In 2001, Kat and Peter Bradley Adams signed to Dreamworks Records. Over the next three years, eastmountainsouth would release a debut, climb radio charts with the single You Dance and tour the country with Lucinda Williams, Tracy Chapman, Joan Baez and Nelly Furtado amongst others before performing their last show at the Hollywood Bowl in September 2004 opening for Lyle Lovett and Shelby Lynne.
Soon after, Kat began writing some of the first material for The Road of Six, and in the time between married, moved to Nashville and became a mother.
This recording was a labor of love and literally almost six years in the making, recalls Kat. & I am truly blessed to have so many amazing friends, musicians and singers join me on the record.
The album is produced by Neilson Hubbard (Kim Richey, Strays Don't Sleep, Matthew Perryman Jones) and features guest vocals by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Glen Phillips, Luke Bulla and Jim Lauderdale.
Appropriately, The Road of 6 features six songs beginning with the highly personal March featuring guest vocals by the aforementioned Mary Chapin Carpenter. Kat recalls, I wrote this song for my husband on our wedding day. But, it's also special because our daughter's heartbeat in-utero begins and ends the song.
On Sky Falls and Back Home , Kat's warm, resonant vocals bring an uplifting and hopeful outlook to some darker subject matter depression and loss, respectively. And she also delicately breaths her own spirit into Tim Easton's J.P.M.F.YF. from his 2006 album Ammunition. It's considered by some to be a controversial song. But, in my opinion, I think the message is positive and moving.