VIDEO: Kat Edmonson Premieres OLD FASHIONED GAL Music Video

Songwriter and vocalist Kat Edmonson is premiering her self-directed "Old Fashioned Gal" video for Valentines Day; watch it below. Her forthcoming album of the same name is set for release April 27 on Spinnerette Records and her tour supporting the full length begins April 20. NPR Music's "Songs We Love" premiered the title track, noting that "Edmonson is astute with her references, and canny about the flirtation at the center of the song."

Kat explains, "this was my first time writing and directing a video. I was scared and reluctant to begin this project because I had no idea what I was doing. In real-life, I am often asked to sing at get-togethers so acting out this scene was sort of a familiar situation."

This month, Edmonson continues her winter residency at City Vineyard in New York City February 20 and 27.

Of writing Old Fashioned Gal, Edmonson says, "I wrote these songs while holed up in my Brooklyn apartment during the winter of 2016. I had a terrible, reoccurring cold that winter and was often laid up in bed. I'd go back and forth from watching 1930s movies on Turner Classic Movies to working on a song. While writing this album, I realized that I was seeing what looked like scenes from a film in my head-a film not yet made. I ultimately sat down and wrote an entire outline for a screenplay-a musical, of course-with this music, the score. I processed a great deal of self-doubt in order to write this hopeful record. Old Fashioned Gal is about believing in yourself even when it seems no one else will."

Old Fashioned Gal was entirely written and produced by Edmonson with associate production by band member and drummer Aaron Thurston. It was recorded over several sessions throughout the summer and fall of 2016 at Atomic Sound Studios in Brooklyn with Grammy-winning engineer Fernando Lodeiro. This is her third time working with twenty-two-time Grammy-winning engineer Al Schmitt who mixed the record at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

The album follows Edmonson's critically acclaimed 2014 release The Big Picture, which debuted #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers, #1 on Contemporary Jazz Chart and #2 on the Total Jazz Chart. Her 2015 performance on "CBS This Morning: Saturday" garnered the program's highest rated viewership since 2006. She recently appeared in Woody Allen's Cafe Society as a 1930s jazz singer and is highlighted on the official soundtrack performing her version of "Mountain Greenery."

Check out the newly released video!

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