Press
“The best country music emerges when a performer doesn’t overthink it, is patient in allowing the best songs to come to them over time, and then is uncompromising in finding the best players. It’s not rocket science, but a sincere passion for the music that results in great country. This is what Kathryn Legendre displays in Here’s Your Honky Tonk.”
— Kyle Coroneos, Saving Country Music
“Out of the tracks at fever speed with the opener Tailing Eighteen Wheelers and signing off with the mid-paced two-stepper ballad, The Long Haul Legendre doesn’t put a foot wrong. Very much reflective of her live shows, she fuses humour, pain, tears in your beer and full-on honky tonk across the album’s nine tracks.”
— Declan Culliton, Lonesome Highway Magazine
“If her step-in set at this spring's Two Step Inn is any indication, Kathryn Legendre's ready to launch from local honky-tonks to bigger stages. Since her debut Old Soul a decade ago, the ATX songwriter has delivered the kind of hook-laden tunes and grounded lyrics that led female artists to top the Nineties country charts, with her latest singles even adding a soulful touch.”
— Doug Freeman, Austin Chronicle
“There’s nothing about Making It Up that suggests it’s chasing any trends... it’s an emphasis on Legendre’s central thesis: she’s going to do things the way she intends to do them, trends be damned.”
— Rachel Cholst, Adobe & Teardrops
“Legendre proves she’s also a natural singer, with a warm, husky drawl and pleasing hint of vibrato that fits her earnest take on classic country like a pair of broken-in boots.”
— Richard Skanse, Lonestar Music Magazine
“Pedal steel and Texas-twang erect a pining testament to beaten, broken hearts that was once a staple of jukeboxes across every honky-tonk in this great land. Damn fine music to drown your sorrows by.”
— Baron Lane, Twang Nation
“It might be easy to forget that Austin’s ’70s rep was built on this kind of country, but Kathryn Legendre reminds listeners that this music never stops being relevant.”