Roots Highway -Italy - Gianfranco Callieri:
Today, a mother (single) of two children and the same for which we have been enchanted, desiring a Blue Magnetic like that of Joni Mitchell or Jackson Brown’s Magritte, the Band’s old stuff or the elegant Raccoon of JJ Cale. On the other side of the all the comparisons, everything discounted, only two words are needed to describe Nothing Tragic: The first is fresh or refreshing and the second being classic.
Seacoast Online - Chris Hislop:
"If you haven't heard Redgate, then take it from me - start listening now. She's unreal. If you can picture a singer/songwriter that's as much Melissa Etheridge (in the rockin' vocals sense) as she is J.J. Cale (in the rockin' writing sense), then you're beginning to understand..."
Wildy's World - Wildy Haskill:
"With a dark and plain-spoken manner that speaks of Bonnie Raitt, Kate Redgate spins autobiographical musical yarns about a life that hasn't always been kind but has born good fruit."
Today, a mother (single) of two children and the same for which we have been enchanted, desiring a Blue Magnetic like that of Joni Mitchell or Jackson Brown’s Magritte, the Band’s old stuff or the elegant Raccoon of JJ Cale. On the other side of the all the comparisons, everything discounted, only two words are needed to describe Nothing Tragic: The first is fresh or refreshing and the second being classic.
Seacoast Online - Chris Hislop:
"If you haven't heard Redgate, then take it from me - start listening now. She's unreal. If you can picture a singer/songwriter that's as much Melissa Etheridge (in the rockin' vocals sense) as she is J.J. Cale (in the rockin' writing sense), then you're beginning to understand..."
Wildy's World - Wildy Haskill:
"With a dark and plain-spoken manner that speaks of Bonnie Raitt, Kate Redgate spins autobiographical musical yarns about a life that hasn't always been kind but has born good fruit."
Country Standard Time - Rick Teverbaugh:
It took me a good bit of time to figure out how to explain exactly why I feel so strongly about Kate Redgate and her recently released album Nothing Tragic. After about the fourth time through the disc it hit me what I liked - everything.
"You get the feeling that with a little help, Kate Redgate’s songs would be right at home with the Nashville cats...you can just picture Kate up on a honky-tonk bar stage somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line in front of a crowd of appreciatively dancing country fans."
Today's Country Magazine - Jeff Kurtis
"The ability for an artist to come in and express themselves anyway they want to is a great asset to the genre and Kate Redgate has done just that with her new album Nothing Tragic. Her combination of great lyrics with great melodies that seem to know the exact moment to fuse in pop is attractive to anyone listening."
Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange - FAME - Frank Gutch
"You can slot Kate Redgate alongside the many fine country singers of the late seventies and early eighties—Kathy Mattea, Holly Dunn, early Patty Loveless and very early Trisha Yearwood—not because she sounds like any of them but because she has pre-Modern Country roots in her music. As varied as Country is these days, Nashville today pushes the Rock and the Pop more than real Country fans might wish and slowly but surely those fans will return (and have returned) to the roots..."
Grin and Grumble - live review, Sean Maney:
"Kate’s music is folk-rock artistry with a dash of blues and some serious “New Country” undertones. "