Sometimes it takes a drummer to realize the guitar’s full potential.

Kaki King, known as the “queen of acoustic guitar,” will return to the Maintenance Shop of the Memorial Union to promote her new album “. Until We Felt Red.”

The 26-year-old guitarist has won wide acclaim for her innovative work thus far, being featured on such programs as “The Late Show with David Letterman” and on National Public Radio.

Her style, which includes a number of intricate tapping, brushing and hammering techniques, is reflected from her prior passion for the drums. Her style, she said, might stretch the audience’s perceptions of what a guitar can do.

The new album breaks from her previous solo acoustic work, featuring King on the electric guitar with the accompaniment of a band and sometimes even her voice – a new instrument for King.

King said she got bored and wanted to try something new, which led her in a new direction.

“Creatively, I just didn’t want to release another acoustic album this year,” King said.

King said she’s more interested in the composition aspect of music than being onstage – in contrast, perhaps, with a lot of young hopefuls who crave the spotlight but never get into the meatier part of music making.

“I don’t like what isn’t music,” King said.

Music, she said, isn’t about what you wear or how you move, but it’s impressive to watch.

“A lot of it is just wiggling around,” she said.

Perhaps because of King’s focus on the more thoughtful, less flashy aspect of the music industry, she said she never really expected to make a career out of playing the guitar.

It has, however, always been something she enjoyed. A graduate of New York University, King spent some time playing in New York subways – places she said aren’t too different in their noisy distractions than many other performing venues.

She said she expected to eventually have to go to graduate school, but her success as a musician just kept getting bigger.

King started playing the guitar at age five and has enjoyed her family’s support in her pursuits as an artist.

“They’ve been great,” she said.

If anyone was wondering what’s behind the title of her latest album, “. Until We Felt Red,” King said the meaning is up for grabs.

“It can be sexual, it can be political,” she said. “It means whatever you want it to mean.”