Glorious (Deluxe) Kate Hudson

• 1 Gonna Find Out 03:30
• 2 Fire 03:09
• 3 The Nineties 04:01
• 4 Live Forever 03:13
• 5 Talk About Love 03:48
• 6 Love Ain't Easy 04:15
• 7 Romeo 02:56
• 8 Never Made A Moment 03:41
• 9 Lying To Myself 03:41
• 10 Not Easy To Know 03:31
• 11 Glorious 03:52
• 12 Touch The Light 03:43
• 13 Right On Time 03:35
• 14 Desert Warrior 03:25
• Total Runtime 50:20

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It was always only a matter of time for Kate Hudson. There had always been songs written and sung, tours joined up with, and moments of pouring her soul into melodies and lyrics for her own reasons. It was always only a matter of when for the girl who came of age in the California canyons as Pearl Jam, Madonna and Sheryl Crow were leaving their mark on a generation of young people to share her own music with the world.

“It’s like the shadow self,” she explains, “those things you don’t see, but are always with you and a part of you. I have always had a room for my piano ever since I began living on my own. I’ve been caught up writing and witnessing life in songs since I was a child. But it always comes down to the moment, and the ability to make sure you can be there for the music. Finally, for me, that time is now.”

With Rolling Stone proclaiming Kate Hudson’s musical debut Glorious “one of the year’s most pleasant musical surprises, a thoroughly grown-up and strikingly assured collection of guitar-heavy songs that land somewhere between Adele and Sheryl Crow, with Hudson’s big, slightly husky voice and deep rock & roll fandom always front and center” and SPIN taking it to the hoop, “with Glorious, Hudson goes for a full role-reversal—one she has been preparing for in private for many years—and it looks great on her…”

In the dozen songs on Glorious, she is self-reflective, using her life and growth for source material. Bolstered by Danny Fujikawa, Johan Carlsson, and Linda Perry as producers and songwriters, Glorious is wholly Hudson’s vision. Hudson is the husky-voiced bar crooner and lullaby whispering mother all at once, while her sound is part rock chick, part down-home country, with a strong sense of melody rooted firmly in guitar riffs.

To that end, she’s expanded her original moment to celebrate the ultimate holiday of love with Glorious Deluxe, containing two new songs that embody love in all its forms with the rhythmic stalk’n’swagger of “Desert Warrior” and the string-driven story-telling ode “Right On Time.”

“Yes, it’s love songs,” muses the woman who surprised with the depth of her musical talent. “But love comes in many forms. ‘Desert Warrior’ is the fiercest of passion, but ‘Right On Time’ is a love song to my mom and her journey to the dream; the way things happened for her, and how she never fell out of love with something she was obviously born to do.”

Just like the Oscar-nominated Hudson, who’s desire to rock brought her to the release of Glorious one year ago. That passion for things that light one’s soul up – be they a person or a gift that we’re given – has defined the California/Colorado hybrid since her girlhood. It’s why she committed to not just making Glorious, but spending the last year doing pop-up shows, creating special TV moments and videos while also filming Running Point, the Mindy Kaling-created basketball series premiering on Netflix Feb 27.

To mark the release of her updated debut, Hudson is heading to England to tape BBC’s “1Show,” BBC2’s “Piano Room” on Feb 20, then Graham Norton on Feb. 21. She returns to America for an appearance on “Soho Sessions” on Feb. 24 and a slot on the 9th Annual “Love Rocks” NYC benefit on March 6 at the Beacon where she will be featured alongside Cher and Beck.

“Glorious gave me whole new pieces of my voice,” Hudson explains. “I wrote ‘Right On Time’ all by myself, about something very personal to me. I showed my mom in a way people never think of her, and there was so much love in it. That’s what some of my favorite songs did for me, and I get to keep bringing this passion of mine forward, creating art out of life – and it’s thrilling to see it take shape.”

Beyond the praising reviews of GLORIOUS, Hudson has explored the live scene with shows in intimate spaces and small theaters. Indeed, the BBC-2 “Piano Room” appearance sees Hudson performing “Right On Time” with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, bringing her robust orchestral recorded vision of the song to life for an intimate audience.

Hudson’s also crafted music videos that are fashion fests, disco dreams and now with “Right On Time,” a performance/narrative ode, anchored by her all-heart vocal performance. A play with shadows encompassing the life of her mother’s journey into stardom. The video sets the stage for a more robust sound for the chameleonic writer/vocalist.

Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson
Kate’s not sure what took her so long, especially with all the music whirling inside her. Raised between Colorado’s mountains and Santa Monica and Malibu’s beaches, she came of age with radio that delivered everything from Pearl Jam to Pharcyde, Neil Young to De La Soul. And so many women -- from Billie Holliday, Etta James and Joni Mitchell to Alanis Morrisette, Madonna, Patty Griffin, and Chrissie Hynde– who captured all the emotions a teenager feels.

That hunger for musical expression from the woman who embodied the ultimate rocker’s muse in Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning Almost Famous ran deeper than most people would imagine. She admits, “I’ve been writing music since I was a young girl. I always felt connected to music. Since I was very little, I wrote songs, and little poems and lyrics that came to me, even though the house I grew up in was more of a theater house than a musical house.”

Regardless, she kept writing, living in the music. Never sure what to do with it, never sure how it fit into her busy, successful life. Music was just always, always there.“It was my outlet. It was always the place I found.”

When something burns inside you like that, it’s only a matter of time. A rock & roll soul, look at the relationships she’s chosen, the lineage she comes from, even the free-spirited nature that defines every aspect of how she faces her work, her life, her creativity, and her passions.

“There were always songs, on the radio or in my home. There was always a piano, just like there were always musicians around. I’ve lived on the road, on tour, feeling that rush. And those songs in my head? Well, when you’ve been lucky to have a career like I’ve had, been around the musicians in my life, and you take your songs seriously, it’s tricky.”

Then came Linda Perry, who challenged Hudson. Not to finish what was, but to create from scratch; heated, fertile writing sessions where two, sometimes three songs a day tumbled out until – ultimately -- 26 songs emerged from two weeks of focused songwriting.

“Why did I wait so long?” she wonders. “I’ve done this in pieces for so long, hundreds of songs or recordings. Bits and ideas, scraps of music. But this? This was me in the process. Instead of witnessing, I was creating, striving, delivering these songs. What makes music transformative is that it’s so in-the-moment, so present. Even when it’s your song, people can draw their own conclusions and find their own lives in it.”

Hudson pauses, collects her thoughts, and explains, “A lot of these songs became big chorus, very cinematic things. Even the quiet songs, the piano ballads, have a dynamic that surprised me. Because I love so many kinds of music, I gave myself permission to not struggle with labels or defining myself. That shuts down the creativity. I wanted this to be all the things I love.”

Shimmering in places, lacerating in others, the music is a survey course that explores the intersection of modern rock and pop. But the voice, strong and swooping, incandescent and soft, seems familiar, even knowing. A fluid vocalist, committed to getting to the songs’ core, Hudson hungers for honest connection and healing. That will to find the space that is as transparent and real as humanly possible drives her as a singer and a songwriter.

Whether the techno disco of “Talk About Love,” with its washes of synthesizers and percolating drum machines, or the intimately vulnerable “Love Ain’t Easy,” tender vocal invitation over falling upright piano notes and the hesitant, slightly hushed “Touch The Light” that dissolves into a moaning cascade of “whoa-ohhhhh” and electric guitar runs, this is the portrait of a woman who’s never lost her innocence or thrill for living wide open.

It ripples through “The Nineties,” with a teasing vocal over a push-me/pull-you arrangement that’s spare, lush, spare again. It erupts on the new wave pogo-licious “Romeo.” It oozes and saunters on “Never Made A Moment,” equal parts Laurel Canyon pop and Pacific Coast Highway rock.

Natural, easy, engaged, there’s both self-examination and celebration of self-flowing though these 12 songs. An invitation to feel, touch and even seek and find carnal pleasure, Kate Hudson understands the phases and stages of modern music in a way that’s fluid, but defined, honest, yet willing to leave it all at the door in the name of love.

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