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Katherine Paul opens up her sophomore album with a simple mantra:"We will always sing." It's the chorus to the lead track on At the Party With My Brown Friends, and it serves as a perfect introduction for what you will find in the music that follows."I feel like there's this voice that people of color have, that they're always going to [say], You can knock us down, you can do this, but we'll always sing," she says."We'll always stand up for ourselves.
KP hails from the small town of La Conner, Washington—or, rather, the Swinomish reservation just over the bridge from the town—which attracts tourists for its annual tulip festival. Her father's family hails from Swinomish; her mother, a native Alaskan, moved to La Conner and was eventually set up with KP's father by his mother, in the ultimate matchmaking move.
The Pacific Northwest has a rich tradition of rock, obviously, with grunge and Riot Grrl roots digging deep. And KP was influenced enough by another local musician—Kurt Cobain—to want a Jag-Stang . The road to getting it, though, she tells me, was a little bumpy."I had been going to the local music shop and seeing it and playing it and then having them put it back," she says. On the day her dad took her to finally purchase it, he'd also gotten KP her first car.
With so much inspiration happening all around her, KP finds that words and melodies burst forth spontaneously—she's not the type to keep a meticulous notebook full of ideas. For the album's track,"At the Party," she'd figured out the guitar line and melody, when the opening lyrics,"How is it real when you don't even notice it," came out of her mouth while driving.
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