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Edith Frost
Friday, April 26 @ Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 320-9887, 8:30 p.m.

First off, no relation, OK? Edith Frost is a Texan via New York City and now Chicago, where she recorded Wonder Wonder (Drag City), a beautifully not-quite-country album that combines cowgirl longing and urban lust with stunning results — think Patsy Cline sharing a Lucky Strike with Liz Phair, among others. "I like it when people compare me to freaks like Syd Barrett," she says. "There are a lot of elements I want to put into my music that can’t be summed up by saying ‘country.’"

Call Edith Frost the crossover cowgirl, the alterna-country singer who discovered the fuzz pedal.  On Telescopic, her newest Drag City release, she treads the familiar lyrical ground of lost love (so confessional an artist that she has posted diary entries on her web site) but with unexpectedly psychedelic sonic textures, with not just guitar but violin, accordion and singing saw.^*  Her roots are as much in Royal Trux as in Hank and Patsy.  The reflectiveness isn’t diluted, however, by the added dimension.  Her music is so personal that this new genre she’s almost single-handedly invented doesn’t sound alien at all.