The debut album from Boston-based duo Kathleen Parks & Brad Bensko!  After three years of performing together, Kat & Brad went into the studio to work up their first album of original material, largely splitting the instrumental duties between the two of them, and employing the help of the great Marty Richards on drums.  The result is 40 minutes of 60s technicolor daydream.

Album Credits & Information:

A Bearded Cat Production • © & ℗ 2019 • All Rights Reserved 


Performances By: 

Kathleen Parks - Vocals, Dahlia 5 String Violin, Collings Mandolin, Gibson LG-1 Acoustic Guitar (Track 6), Hand Percussion 

Brad Bensko - Vocals, Gibson J-45 Acoustic Guitar, Yamaha 12 String, Hand Percussion, Percussion, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer 200, Hammond A-100 Organ, Rickenbacker 4003 Bass, Kay Upright Bass, Silvertone 1446 Electric Guitar, Collings Mandolin (Track 2), Roland 808 Drum Programming, Drums (Tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, and 8) 

Marty Richards - Drums (Tracks 2, 3, 9, 11 and 12), Tambourine (Track 11) 


A Bearded Cat Production 

Produced By: Kathleen Parks, Brad Bensko, and Chris Rival 

Arrangements By: Kathleen Parks and Brad Bensko 

Tracks 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 recorded at Middleville Studios, North Reading, MA By: Chris Rival 

Additional Overdubs recorded at Bearded Cat Studios, Mystic, CT by Kathleen Parks & Brad Bensko 

Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 recorded onto analog tape at Bearded Cat Studios, Mystic, CT by Kathleen Parks, Brad Bensko, & SAL (16 Track 1” Otari MX70) 

Mixed by: Brad Bensko at Bearded Cat Studios 

*Tracks 4 and 8 mixed by: Brad Bensko & Kathleen Parks at Bearded Cat Studios 

Mastered by: Chris Rival at Middleville Studios, North Reading, MA 

Illustration By: Ananda Spadt 
Photography By: Anya Briz Photography 
Art Direction and Design By: Paul Wallen

Promise I'll Be True

Lost On You

Don't Come Over Tonight

No Better

Navy Blue

Lover's Game

I Really Really Want To Be With You

Someday Soon

Cleveland Line

Too Late

Drawing from 50s and 60s pop, American Songbook standards, and much more, this happy duo channels and fuses these influences through two voices, a guitar, mandolin, and violin to bring you a mixture of original songs and dusted off covers from the past.  The two consist of Brad Bensko on Vocals and Guitar, and Kathleen Parks (of the 2018 Boston Music Award winning Twisted Pine) on Vocals, Violin, and Mandolin. While busy with performing and writing, they have been busy recording, mixing and now ready to release their first LP of original material due out March 16th, 2019. Join them at an upcoming show to hear selections from their brand new album and fresh cuts from their favorite time periods!

Kathleen Parks & Brad Bensko

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