Kaki King - October 1, 2005
By expressing her personal emotions in a very powerful and profound way, Kaki King’s style is purely unique. Her playing could be described as controlled chaos, with a hint of inward bliss, as both sadness and wonder fill the spaces within her compositions. She has truly developed her own style that is reminiscent of what it would sound like if Leo Kottke had a crush on Victor Wooten. By manically tapping and slapping out the rhythms on the body of her guitar, and then delicately finger picking her strings, Kaki King creates true juxtaposition.

Kaki King is a feisty, five-foot, funny, outspoken Atlanta transplant who now lives in New York, a city whose energy is almost equal to her own. She also happens to be the most exciting solo guitarist/composer to have come along in decades. Her music is as contradictory as the city itself. For Kaki, the guitar isn't just a reverie machine; it's a percussion instrument, just like the drums she played with her high school band. Sure, there were guitars around the house - her father, a lawyer, was a music lover who spotted his daughter's talent early on. "When I was about four years old my parents wanted me to take music lessons, and I chose the guitar," she says. "But I didn't enjoy it, so when I was five I put it aside. Then I started playing drums when I was nine or 10. I still play them. That was how I got into playing pop music, and that feel was a big influence when I did go back to guitar."

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Kaki King — acoustic guitar, lap guitar, loops