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Kathy Zimmer’s “Extremist” on All Streaming Video

 Kathy Zimmer’s song and music video “Extremist” is out on all streaming media including on

 The digital link for “Extremist” streaming on platforms like Amazon, Apple, Spotify is https://bit.ly/3VBPCi3.

Bandcamp fans can listen and download “Extremist” at kathyzimmer.bandcamp.com/track/extremist.

The song, which declares, "You make me happy AND depressed," is about the love and hate in relationships. "I was looking for a simple way to bring different visual extremes together in one video," says Kathy, "and we opted for the day-night quick edits that you see. Kind of a stark difference to go from bright daylight right into moonlight, and back again. It may even be a little disorienting, which is exactly right! The video was filmed on my rooftop on the lower east side of Manhattan."

The production was helmed by cinematographer Alex Levin, who has worked with major brands including Nike, Conde Nast, RedBull, NatGeo. He says, “I believe a good story deserves to be told no matter the scale.”Kai and Victoria Vallas-Cullen edited “Extremist.”

Kathy’s an indie-pop-singer-songwriter for fans of artists like Kacey Musgraves, Phoebe Bridgers, Weyes Blood, Maggie Rogers…. A resident of New York City, Kathy Zimmer is a native of rural Nebraska. Her original love of acoustic guitars and tight vocal harmonies was the product of being raised in a large musical family. In school, Zimmer studied classical music, her education culminating in a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Rock n’ Reel Magazine has declared Kathy as the “latter day Joan Baez.” The Roots Music Report proclaims, “At various turns enchanting, haunting and soothing—and at times a bit of all of these—Ms. Zimmer’s sophisticated song crafting never fails to charm.” 

EXTREMIST

Everybody needs a little balance
A kiss from heaven, kick from hell
A proper love and a shadowy dalliance
A swimming pool, and a deep dark well

All things in moderation
Sweet and sour, this and that
A little virtue, salacious temptation
A puffed-up ego and a trip and fall flat

But you make me happy and depressed
You are nothing in the middle
My own personal extremist

One moment, I’m on top of the world
Tightrope walking, I can see for miles and miles
Next minute, cut me down to size
A wrecking ball
You capsize me

Night is dark and day is light
Don’t know to expect love or a fight
I open up to snap back shut
I can’t figure out, what do you want? 

C 2022/2023 by Kathy Zimmer, BMI, Zimmer, Katherine Louise, All Rights Reserved 

*www.kathyzimmermusic.com*  ~cosmopolitan folk in your ears~

Jann Klose & Alicia Madison - Love You The Most (Official Music Video)

One of the songs I'm promoting this week.  #LoveYouTheMost  #JannKlose #AliciaMadison 

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“Harry Chapin,” the Song by Doctor Fish

Appearing on the Forthcoming Renaissance Records Debut, “The Last Troubadour” Produced by David Kershenbaum

Renaissance Records is releasing Doctor Fish’s single and music video “Harry Chapin (Every Monday Night)” today-- Friday, Dec. 2. This tribute to the legendary singer-songwriter helps celebrate both the 50th anniversary of Chapin’s breakout hit, “Taxi,” and his 80th birthday on Dec. 7.

The song is the first single off Doctor Fish’s album, The Last Troubadour which will be released this February 2023.  Vents Magazine listened in advance and says that it’s “One of the best albums we’ve heard in Ages.”  

Harry Chapin” is a story song about young Doctor Fish singing a weekly gig at a folk music club. Each night, Cathy the waitress badgers him to sing a Harry song. When he finally asks, “what she hears in Chapin's tunes,” Cathy responds, “you’ve got it backwards, kid. It’s what I hear in you.”

Indeed, Doctor Fish has similarities in his voice to the late activist songwriter. Like Harry, he pens story songs. Harry’s son Jason calls the song a “great tribute” to his father. Jen Chapin, Harry's daughter, and a singer-songwriter herself, will share mass media interviews with Doctor Fish in support of Harry’s birthday this December.

Superstar producer David Kershenbaum (Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Joe Jackson) produced The Last Troubadour. The album features bassist Leland Sklar (James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King), drummer Denny Fongheiser (Heart, Counting Crows, Shawn Colvin), and top studio musicians from around the world.

Doctor Fish is a real doctor, with a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan who created a thriving program of study for students of popular music at CATAWBA College, in Salisbury, North Carolina. Now living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle of NC, Doctor Fish is pursuing his interrupted dream as a storytelling folk-rock singer-songwriter.

Doctor Fish grew up playing saxophone in Tucson, Arizona, and pursued jazz through college at Western Michigan University. As a saxophonist, he backed legends including Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Cher. Somewhere along the way, the doctor picked up a guitar and began writing and singing songs.