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Kostars is tagged as: female vocalists, indie, folk, pop, acoustic

Grand Royal presents the Kostars debut album. “Klassics With a K,” a vibrant and sultry collection of summertime singalongs to be released this winter (Feb. 1996). Kostars is a side project of Luscious Jackson members Jill Cunniff and Vivian Trimble, who needed an additional outlet for the transistor radio hits they were writing.
The Kostars started during a headlining tour in May, 1995. While waiting to play a show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, they headed into the woods with two acoustic guitars, and the rest is herstory. By the end of the tour, they had written an album’s worth of songs inspired by such greats as Bobbie Gentry, Astrud Gilberto, Nancy Sinatra, and Joni Mitchell, and decided to record it all as soon as they got home to New York City. They tried to capture that lonely, slow town, nothin’ goin’ on around here feeling that seems to accompany the touring life. By that time, the band had traversed much of the country, and the girls had perfected their romantic fixation with small town dreamers, schemers, and castaways that would become the subject matter of their songs.
A lot of sweat went into Klassics (literally! — it was one hot summer in the city). The Kostars album was recorded and mixed in 25 days at the Meat and Potatoes Studio, a 16...
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Top 10 Kostars Songs
Red Umbrella
Never So Lonely
Jacqueline
Don't Know Why
One Sunny Day
French Kiss
Hey Cowboy
Mama Never Said
Reverend
Jolene on the Freeway
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