Edith Frost

Edith Frost

Born and raised in Texas, Edith Frost has been in love with music pretty much since birth. Throughout her childhood, her parents’ music collection provided many seismic listening experiences. At the age of 10, while living in Mexico, she began to play the guitar. Back in the USA, her ears were set alight by the new wave punk sounds of the late 70s/early 80s. This led to the formation of her first band, The Suffer Jets, with soon-to-be Butthole Surfer Teresa Taylor, on drums.

There was lots of country music on Edith’s high school turntable as well. As a graduation gift, she asked for a Stratocaster, after which she learned how to play Barre chords. Pretty soon, playing her blue Strat and singing country tunes was all she wanted to do. She moved to Brooklyn in 1990, forming a few groups (The Holler Sisters, Marfa Lights, Edith and Her Roadhouse Romeos) to explore different styles, like honky-tonk and old-timey harmony singing, while writing and taping original compositions at home. Listening for new songs and sounds, she was knocked out by the Palace Brothers – so, she sucked up her fears and sent a cassette of demos to Drag City in 1995.

This is the well-established part of the Edith Frost bio: five acclaimed albums since 1997, shows played all around the world. She moved to Chicago, recording Calling Over Time, Wonder Wonder and It’s a Game there with some of the best musicians in town. Everyone marveled over her songwriting and singing, a deceptively homespun build-out of old school styles, with spare strokes radiating her emotional depth and trippy consciousness.

After It’s a Game, the process of touring and writing and making new records had become nerve-wracking. Edithneeded to get her head together. She moved to San Francisco for a couple years, then back to Texas. She wasn’t really writing new songs – in Austin, she focused on piano study. That went well, but the head-getting-together part wasslow. First she had to realize there was anxiety anddepression to deal with, and then she needed to deal withthem. As she did, new songs began to emerge … and suddenly, ten years had gone by! When she finally had a fullalbum to record, she’d been diagnosed as ADHD as well.WHEW. That didn’t stop the train though, and In Space was recorded at The Loft in Chicago with Jim Becker, Sima Cunningham, Mark Greenberg, Bill MacKay and Rian Murphy. Her first album in 20 years is an inadvertent reflection on those lost years – and with all that off her chest,Edith Frost is ready to get back to the world again.

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