Gentle Frost
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Frost was born in San Antonio and moved sporadically with her mother between there, Austin, and Guadalajara, Mexico. She spent three years as an undeclared fine-arts major at the University of Texas, flunking core courses but devouring a wide variety of music classes, from electronic music to voice to theory. “I was studying just to learn to play, which I still can’t do,” she explains. “I don’t know what I ended up learning from all of those classes, because if you listen to what I’m doing right now it’s really basic.”
Though she spent most of her money and time on vintage country and rockabilly, she had a peripheral knowledge of the indie-rock scene, and because of her fanaticism for Will Oldham’s Palace projects, she sent her tape to Drag City, the label that releases his music, with a note explaining how much she loved the band. Nine months later she got a call at work from the label.
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