Blues.Gr

“ (One Eye Open) celebrates her passion for the roots of blues music and her achievements as a graduate student at the University of Alberta where she has now officially become Dr. Kat Danser with a PhD in Ethnomusicology. “

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Roots Music Canada

“I chose ‘Bring it With You When You Come’ because I wanted to highlight the incredible role he played in shaping what we now understand as roots, folk and blues music in America.”

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Top100Canadianblog

.”Danser teamed up with producer Steve Dawson in Nashville, and aces scattered around the continent for this set, recording her vocals remotely in Edmonton, with nobody in the same studio.”

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Fervor Coulee

“A product of the pandemic, recorded remotely (Danser in Edmonton, musicians elsewhere, Dawson in Nashville) there is nothing within One Eye Open’s forty minutes that sounds sterile or unnatural; this cohesiveness is testament to the trust and skill demonstrated by all involved.”

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Fabrications HQ

“In the world we currently live in we should indeed be keeping One Eye Open – and an ear to the rootsy musical ground in which Kat Danser travels so successfully and performs so passionately.”

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Northern Sky Reviews

“We need albums like One Eye Open, especially numbers like “Frenchman Street Shake” and “MI Corazon”, if only to remind us that life is good, despite the frequency of seismic interruptions.”

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Blues Blues

“One Eye Open is Edmonton, Canada based Kat Danser's sixth album and takes her from the Mississippi Delta to Havana and back to Canada in ten tracks”

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Roots in February

“The enduring emotional power and relevance of the blues pervades. Road house swagger; deep, slow blues'; reflective, soulful tunes; swinging and rollicking; soulful or even punkish - each track a window into blues geo-history.”

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