{"id":20016,"date":"2020-11-10T10:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=20016"},"modified":"2020-11-11T01:25:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T08:25:52","slug":"kim-richey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2020\/11\/kim-richey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview &#038; Video: KIM RICHEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Artist: <strong>KIM RICHEY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1>Video: \u201c<strong>Wreck Your Wheels<\/strong>\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiDzHka9pTQ\" width=\"660\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>KIM RICHEY GLIMMERS AND SHINES AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! <em>COOL NIGHTS 2020<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nKim Richey will be featured at the Blue Rock aLive! <em>Cool Nights 2020<\/em> virtual concert series this Thursday, November 12. The series is \u201cfor the songs, for the artists, for all of us.\u201d You can buy a Season Pass for only $105\u2014and have a seat in the house by sending in your headshot. They will place it on a seat, so you will literally be <em>sitting<\/em> in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Rock\u2019s innovation, quality and creativity is evidenced in concerts produced with broadcast quality audio-video from their renowned Texas room\u2014streamed straight to you. Individual tickets can also be purchased for $25: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluerocktexas.com\/events\">https:\/\/bluerocktexas.com\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20023\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20023\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20023\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-04-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-04-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-04-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Jeff Fasano<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kim Richey\u2019s career in music is quite unique. She started playing guitar in high school, but didn\u2019t get much stage time until college. After college, she moved around a lot, and even was a cook at the famed Bluebird Caf\u00e9 in Nashville. She came onto the music scene in the 1990s as a songwriter with her songs being recorded by Trisha Yearwood, Radney Foster, Brooks &amp; Dunn, The Chicks and Suzy Bogguss.<\/p>\n<p>Richey built a reputation as a singer who could uniquely interpret lyrics and harmonize with the best musicians. She proved she was more than a songwriter and got her first recording contract at the age of 37. Her songs (\u201cCome Around\u201d) have been featured in movies like Kevin Costner\u2019s <em>For the Love of the Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Richey\u2019s songs make your heart yearn while it remains hopeful. Each unique turn of phrase and playful beat moves the song while giving pause for thought.<\/p>\n<p>We talked with Kim Richey about her unique approach to songwriting, the joy of interacting with her fans, what continues to inspire her and keep her hopeful, and how her songs are like snapshots of a moment in time in her content life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20022\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20022\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20022\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-07-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-07-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-07-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Jeff Fasano<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>KIM RICHEY <\/strong>Interview<br \/>\nwith\u00a0<strong><em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>magazine publisher,<strong> Merlin David<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>How did the idea for \u201cWreck Your Wheels\u201d come to you?<\/strong><br \/>\nI wrote that song with Mando Saenz\u2014one of my friends and favorite people to write with. He came over and said \u201cI have an idea for a song.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d He said, \u201cWreck Your Wheels.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d And he said, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d (<em>Laughs<\/em>) So then we had to figure out what it means. We came up with the chorus\u2014and went from there. It\u2019s that way a lot of times with Mando\u2014things just pop into his head. We\u2019ll come up with a phrase or something and we have to figure out what it means. We try to make sense of it. A lot of times you just don\u2019t know where these ideas come from\u2014or where they lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about the incredibly creative video for this song.<\/strong><br \/>\nWe made this great video for the song with a lot of fan participation. We asked people if they\u2019d like to be in the video, and we assigned them a word from the song. Everyone took a photo of the word and put their own spin\u2014their own creativity\u2014on the word. We compiled the video from all the words sent in. When I got the video back\u2014it made me cry. People were so creative. Some of them went to such great lengths to make these photos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever see these people?<\/strong><br \/>\nSomeone recently sent me a message saying it is the 10-year anniversary of the video. I still see people at shows that say, \u201cHey, I was in your video! I was at 1 minute and 23 seconds. You remember me?\u201d (<em>Laughs<\/em>) And I say, \u201cYeah. You were great!\u201d When you see the video on YouTube, there\u2019s a woman on the bed trying to buy stuffed monkeys\u2014that\u2019s my friend. She ended up being the random frame picked\u2014for the start of the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us the story behind a song you plan to play at Blue Rock\u2019s <em>Cool Nights 2020<\/em>.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHello Old Friend\u201d is about an old friend who I hadn\u2019t spoken with in years\u2014who called me up very late one night\u2014drinking was possibly involved. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) This song lyric is pretty much how the conversation went between us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20021\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-06.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-06-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-06-300x375.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You did what very few artists have done\u2014re-record an album the way you envision it and present it in a new order. Which song are you especially glad you were able to redo on <em>Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer<\/em>.<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m especially happy with \u201cA Long Way Back.\u201d Dan Mitchell\u2019s beautiful flugel horn on the recording is perfect at capturing the resignation I felt about the unraveling of a relationship and how hard it is to break those ties.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><b><i>Kim Richey\u2019s songs make your heart yearn while it remains hopeful. Each unique turn of phrase and playful beat moves the song while giving pause for thought.<\/i><\/b><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Who originally inspired you to write songs?<\/strong><br \/>\nJoni Mitchell was the main inspiration for me, especially when it came to lyrics. She was so good at painting a vivid scene in so few words. \u201cThe priest sat in the airport bar. He was wearing his Father\u2019s tie.\u201d\u00a0 Steve Earle would be a later inspiration for my writing\u2014in a more conversational style. He is also great at packing a lot of imagery into few words. Tom Petty is also up there too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you like co-writing?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s so much fun to write with others. I mean, when do you get to sit with a friend for hours and talk about stuff? It\u2019s pretty great. I don\u2019t like the random pro-writer thing where they fix you up with people you don\u2019t know. It just feels like a blind date that is about to go terribly wrong at any moment. I don\u2019t like that. I get really nervous writing with someone for the first time. I do like finding people you know and people you like to write with. I\u2019d much rather write with my friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20020\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-05.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-05-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-05-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What songwriting tip would you like to offer?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou just have to be aware. It\u2019s like taking photographs. You choose to see things or you blindly stumble along and don\u2019t look for the pictures. When you\u2019re looking, it\u2019s hard to find. Great photographs are all around us. It\u2019s the same with songs. You have to have your antenna up and be aware all the time. Always keep looking for ideas. I was just driving this weekend and I saw what would have been a cool photograph, but I didn\u2019t stop to take it. I felt bad because I know it was a great photograph that I just let slip through my fingers. So I say\u2014make the time at that moment to be ready to write.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What instruments<\/strong><strong>\/equipment can you not live without?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have two guitars I love. Both were made by Gibson: a 1956 J-50 and a 1969 Epiphone Frontier. When writing, I always use some device to record the work in progress\u2014from cassette tape recorder to the short-lived mini disc to now\u2014my phone. I don\u2019t believe for a second that if a lyric or melody is truly good you will remember it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which Top 5 Musicians\u00a0inspired you to become a musician?<\/strong><br \/>\nJoni Mitchell, Carole King, Tom Petty, Steve Earle, Karla Bonoff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20019\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-03.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-03-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-03-300x425.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your Top 5 favorite albums of all time?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tapestry<\/em> (1971) \u2014 Carole King<br \/>\n<em>Miles of Aisles<\/em> (1974) \u2014 Joni Mitchell<br \/>\n<em>Wildflowers<\/em> (1994) \u2014 Tom Petty<br \/>\n<em>Karla Bonoff<\/em> (1977) \u2014 Karla Bonoff<br \/>\n<em>Heart Like a Wheel<\/em> (1974) \u2014 Linda Ronstadt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us a \u201cpinch me\u201d moment when you thought \u201c<em>Wow, this is really happening to me!<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nI got to sing on a project with Dolly Parton. She is a star, for sure. She radiates charisma and light. When she walked into the studio, it was immediately her party and she joked around and made everyone she spoke with feel special. All this\u2014on top of being an incredibly talented songwriter and singer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you remember the first time your heard your song on the radio?<\/strong><br \/>\nI remember the first time I didn\u2019t hear my song on the radio. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) I got picked up by a radio station in New York. There was a country station up there. On my first record, the first single was \u201cJust My Luck.\u201d I was going up to the station to do an interview and they picked me up in a car. I was with one of the DJs and they had this whole thing worked out where they were going to surprise me and play my song while we were in the car. We were driving along, listening to their station and the DJ announced, \u201cAnd the next song is Kim Richey with \u2018Just My Luck\u2019.\u201d Then we hit a tunnel and that was it. (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20018\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-02.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-02-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How about other times when your heard your song?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve hear myself at Home Depot when I was getting a key cut. The guy was just starting to cut the key and I said, \u201cWait, wait, wait. That\u2019s me!\u201d He looked at me as if to say, \u201cYeah\u2014right.\u201d And he went back to cutting the key. That record, <em>Glimmer<\/em>, wasn\u2019t even out yet and it was already on Muzak. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) I\u2019ve also heard myself at gas stations while I\u2019m filling up the car. It\u2019s always weird to hear yourself. One thing that was really weird happened in Nashville. I was driving around and I heard, \u201cHi, I\u2019m Kim Richey!\u201d I thought, \u201cOK. This is freaking me out. You\u2019re not Kim Richey. I\u2019m Kim Richey\u2014driving in the car.\u201d It was a liner for a local radio station. It was kinda funny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best advice someone has given you?<\/strong><br \/>\nI don\u2019t really remember anyone giving me any advice. Rather, I was always given more than enough rope to hang myself\u2014by the record labels and also my first and best publisher Blue Water Music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What makes Blue Rock unique?<\/strong><br \/>\nBilly and Dodee are simply amazing people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you remain hopeful in this strange and unique socio-political time?<\/strong><br \/>\nThings that keep me going: Riding my bike, cooking and baking and sharing the end results with friends, socially-distant meetings with my friends, writing some new songs, taking regular breaks from the news and social media, reading Richard Powers\u2019 <em>The Overstory<\/em>, getting out in the woods, having and taking the time to connect with friends and family, gardening, being home enough to get to know some of my neighbors and mentoring a few younger songwriters over zoom meet-ups. I\u2019m making the most out of this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimrichey.com\/\">www.KimRichey.com<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: @kimrichey<br \/>\nTwitter: @kimrichey<br \/>\nFacebook.com\/kimricheymusic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20017\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-01.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-01-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kim-Richey-01-300x375.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: KIM RICHEY Video: \u201cWreck Your Wheels\u201d KIM RICHEY GLIMMERS AND SHINES AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! 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