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Art of the Song
Art of the Song is a one-hour, independently-produced radio show with music and interviews exploring inspiration and creativity through songwriting and other art forms. The program is heard on over 160 stations worldwide. Learn why songwriters and artists create, how they become inspired, and how you can tap into that creative source in every aspect of your life.
Terry Kitchen is a musical storyteller.
Award-winning Boston contemporary folk singer/songwriter Terry Kitchen is as much a storyteller as a musician. His new CD The Post-American Century combines his considerable skills as a singer, composer and guitarist with his fearless emotional honesty, keen eye for detail, and deep empathy for his subjects for a compelling portrait of the land we live in. The Post-American Century presents ten sketches of American life, from the unhealed schism of the Civil War to the Baby Boom generation’s looming mortality. His first release since the 2013 publication of NEXT BIG THING, Terry’s debut novel, and first full-length folk CD since 2009’s Summer to Snowflakes, The Post-American Century finds Kitchen’s songcraft honed sharper than ever, with insightful lyrics matched to moody, stick-in-your-brain melodies.
Kitchen gets plenty of help fleshing out his sparse, rootsy vignettes from a talented group of friends including singers Mara Levine (featured on the duet ballad “Eternity” and three other tracks) and Amy Malkoff (“Tall Against the Wave”) and players Bob Harris (who played mandolin with Johnny Cash in the 1980s), Dobroist Roger Williams (the Amy Gallatin Band), violinist Chris Devine (Ritchie Blackmore) and Brice Buchanan (guitarist of Kitchen’s ’80s band Loose Ties). Kitchen himself adds accents on mandolin, autoharp and harmonica in addition to his fluid acoustic guitar playing.
