What About Regret
Studio album by
Kate Jacobs
Released1995
GenreFolk, pop
LabelBar/None Records[1]
ProducerKate Jacobs, Dave Schramm, James MacMillan, Charlie Shaw, Gary Arnold
Kate Jacobs chronology
The Calm Comes After
(1992)		 What About Regret
(1995)		 A Sister EP
(1996)

What About Regret, stylized as (What About Regret), is an album by the American musician Kate Jacobs, released in 1995.[2][3] Jacobs promoted the album with two tours, one with a full band and one with just a bass player.[4]

After an editor at Hyperion Books heard Jacobs perform "A Sister" on the radio, the song was adapted for an illustrated children's book.[5]

Production

The album was produced by Jacobs, Dave Schramm, James MacMillan, Charlie Shaw, and Gary Arnold.[6] As on Jacobs's first album, Schramm played guitar and many other instruments.[7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
The Indianapolis Star[9]
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide[10]

Stereo Review considered that "while there's great warmth in Jacobs's songs, and a nice homemade quality, many of her offerings have an off-putting vagueness and an eccentricity-for-eccentricity's-sake quality about them."[11] The Indianapolis Star opined that "Jacobs' voice is light and lilting, but unwavering ... Musically, she's akin to Nanci Griffith and Iris DeMent, but she's no clone."[9] The Philadelphia Inquirer determined that Schramm "decorates each tune beautifully with whatever acoustic or electric touches the songs demand."[12]

The Chicago Tribune concluded that the "brilliant lyrics continue to detonate long after these lovely, sometimes meandering, folk-pop tunes have finished."[13] Trouser Press wrote: "A moderately demanding emotional experience, (What About Regret) rewards careful listening with details and empathy, like a series of personal letters from close friends."[14] The Chicago Reader thought that "Jacobs sings her airy country-tinged folk rock with a slippery warble, sliding over clearly defined melodies with a palpable shyness."[15]

Will Hermes, in City Pages, listed the album as his fifth favorite of 1995, writing that "of all the country-rock sets this year, Jacobs's moved me the most ... In a word, it was her stories—tales not of vague ennui, but of people I knew intimately"; The Star-Ledger also listed What About Regret among 1995's best albums.[16][17] MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide praised "some of the richest, most complex songs written during the [1990s]."[10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."George Says" 
2."See the Moon" 
3."Be Brave" 
4."No Question" 
5."My Old Haunts" 
6."Oh Vagabond" 
7."Indiana" 
8."Love Comes and Goes" 
9."In the Country" 
10."3 Years in Nebraska" 
11."Don't Watch Me Sleep" 
12."A Sister" 
13."Made My Bed" 

References

  1. ↑ Rosen, Steven (December 22, 1995). "Like Freedy Johnston, who also started his career...". The Denver Post. p. F15.
  2. ↑ "Kate Jacobs Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ Robbins, Ira (19 Mar 1995). "Yes, Virginia, There IS Music For Grownups". Newsday. Fanfare. p. 8.
  4. ↑ Nelson, Rick (June 23, 1995). "MUSIC: KATE JACOBS USES SONGS TO TELL SOME TERRIFIC TALES". The News Tribune. p. SL5.
  5. ↑ Crouch, Lisa Marie (17 May 1996). "A CHILDREN'S STORY TO SING ABOUT: KATE JACOBS TURNS LYRICS INTO A BOOK". The Record. Lifestyle/Previews. p. 18.
  6. ↑ "Album reviews -- (What About Regret) by Kate Jacobs". Billboard. 107 (13): 56. Apr 1, 1995.
  7. ↑ Caligiuri, Jim (Apr 1995). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly (20): 37.
  8. ↑ "What About Regret - Kate Jacobs | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  9. 1 2 Penner, Diana (24 Apr 1995). "Kate Jacobs 'What About Regret'". The Indianapolis Star. p. D5.
  10. 1 2 MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 400.
  11. ↑ Nash, Alanna (May 1995). "Popular music -- What About Regret by Kate Jacobs". Stereo Review. 60 (5): 85.
  12. ↑ DeLuca, Dan (31 Mar 1995). "GRANT MCLENNAN/KATE JACOBS". The Philadelphia Inquirer. FEATURES WEEKEND. p. 15.
  13. ↑ Dickinson, Chris (10 Mar 1995). "Kate Jacobs, The Schramms". Chicago Tribune. Friday. p. P.
  14. ↑ "Kate Jacobs". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  15. ↑ Margasak, Peter (March 9, 1995). "Kate Jacobs". Chicago Reader.
  16. ↑ Hermes, Will (January 24, 1996). "FF/Rewind". City Pages. Cover Story.
  17. ↑ Lustig, Jay (December 24, 1995). "HARVEY TO HARRIS: THE BEST OF '95". The Star-Ledger.
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