Kate Schutt's guitar teacher introduced her to Jazz at an early age and her new album No Love Lost harkens back to those early days. Different than her previous albums, which were just her and her guitar, this album features a wide range of players that Schutt brought together on the album she also produced.

Truly a master of her own fate, this album, like her previous ones, will be released on her own label, Wild Whip Records on May 8, 2007 in Canada, the country she now calls home. She hopes to bring the album to U.S. audiences late this summer or early fall.

Recently, Kate Schutt took time out of her busy schedule to sit down and talk to me about her music, her business, and the music that inspires her.

Tell me a little bit about the new album?

It's a jazz-pop album, called No Love Lost. I recorded it about half and half between here, in Boston, and Canada. I now live in Guelph, Ontario. I've been working on it for the last year.

It has a May eighth release date in Canada. Any idea when it will be available in the U.S.?

I'm in the process of shopping it to a bunch of labels, and I'm giving that about eight week's time. If nobody has taken the bait by then, I'll probably roll it right into an independent release. So we're probably looking at early June or — if nothing happens — early September. But everything is sort of in the air right now.

This was the first album you've done with a full back-up band. How was the experience different than before – just you and your guitar?

It was a wonderful process. It was challenging. The players I preformed with on this album were just great players. It was a really fulfilling thing to play with them, just a totally different experience than just recording live with my guitar. As a producer of this album, it was totally different to have anywhere from five to eight musicians on any given track there is just so many things to be aware of. But overall, the recording process, the engineering, the mixing stages were all really exciting and I had a great group of people around me helping me.

As you mentioned, you also produced and mixed No Love Lost, was this the first time you took that complete control?

No, I've done that for — I don't know the exact number — but a number of my past albums. But, in terms of having such a full sound, this is the first time I've produced an album with a scope this big.