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"That's Kaki King. She's an amazing guitarist... She makes Eddie Van Halen look like he was in The Germs!" Dave Grohl in an interview with MOJO

Over the last few years, Kaki King has enjoyed well-earned status as the zeit-girl of instrumentalacoustic guitar; a gifted young ingenue closing rank on the canonized heroes of the genre. A case in point – she was one of only 20 guitarists named as Rolling Stone’s ‘New Gods of Guitar’.

Bold has always been King's way, from her first appearance at NYC's indie-rock proving ground, the Knitting Factory, where she jumped up onstage as a last-minute fill-in for a no-show performer, to her debut on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where she coolly reeled off some of the most jaw-dropping guitar pyrotechnics ever seen on late-night TV.

A recent, very vocal supporter has been Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. The Foo’s recently-released album 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace' features an instrumental guitar duet between King and Grohl called 'Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners'. In an interview with Billboard, he had this to say of it - "I showed it to her once and she shredded it 10 times better than I've ever played it."

Another fan is Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder who suggested to his friend Sean Penn that some music from Kaki King would work on the soundtrack for the Penn-directed “Into The Wild” (Paramount Vantage, 2007).

Produced by John McEntire (Tortoise, Stereolab) Current album "Until We Felt Red" ventures into new territory with a degree of self-assurance that borders on irreverence – another Kaki King hallmark. Distorted pedal steel, pounding drums, ethereal trumpet, dots, loops, bleeps and other indefinable percussion sounds, and her own voice, disarmingly winsome and sweet for a woman with this much attitude.

King is currently on tour in Europe, having taken a break from recording with Daniel Lanois protégé Malcolm Burn with whom she is making a new record for release in Spring 2008.