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The Katherine in the song is my good friend Katherine Pritchard, who is no longer with us. The night I met this amazing, beautiful person she introduced herself as "I'm Katherine. That's Katherine with a K." I kind of started falling in love with her right then and there.

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Katherine With a K

blonder than the sun
in my memory you stood six foot one
turns out you were really kind of small
but your voice rang like an orchestra

Katherine with a K you said
the night I asked your name
I love you still and I’ll never be the same

your vocabulary was legendary
complicated, dirty, and literate
you channelled Peggy Lee and Patti Smith
fighting in an alley

Katherine with a K you said
the night I asked your name
I love you still and I’ll never be the same

it was 2 a.m. the night you learned
I’d never tried escargot
so you found an all night French cafe
and we ate snails!

Katherine with a K you said
the night I asked your name
I love you still and I’ll never be the same

of all of my regrets you’re the most beautiful
we were both smitten but when we met we weren’t free
a world without you in it, so hard to contemplate
I couldn’t believe it when I heard

I saw a picture of you at eight years old
and you looked just the same
I always saw the child in the woman you became
so filled with wonder

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from If I Woke Up This Morning and Died, released September 14, 2019
Laura Bowman: vocals
Fred Gillen Jr: guitars, bass, vocals
Paul J Magliari: drums

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Fred Gillen Jr Athens, New York

NYFA grant recipient Fred Gillen Jr has released 12 solo albums, and 6 ep’s, has toured all over the U.S. and Europe solo, and Nepal/ India with Greenheart. His songs have been on ABC's "All My Children," NPR's "Car Talk," CMJ, and his version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" was featured on Pete Seeger's "Pete Remembers Woody." He is also a founding member of THE TRIKE rock trio. ... more

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