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KIM RICHEY<\/h1>\nKIM RICHEY<\/h1>\nOn her latest effort, the acclaimed singer-songwriter highlights harmonies \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Kim Richey has been on the\u00a0move\u2014Colorado, Boston, Washington, South America, Europe and London, where she spent three years. She returned to Nashville for the third time last summer to make her new album, Thorn in My Heart<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Richey\u2019s first venture to Music City after college included a stint as a cook at the famed Bluebird Caf\u00e9 where she glimpsed singer-songwriters performing there. When she returned to the city in the late 1980s, she began writing songs for a roster of Nashville\u2019s finest including Radney Foster, Jim Lauderdale,\u00a0Brooks & Dunn, Patty Loveless, Terri Clark, Mindy McCready, Lorrie Morgan and Mary Chapin Carpenter. She put down her songwriting pen long enough to sing on albums by Trisha Yearwood, Carpenter, Gretchen Peters, Jason Isbell, Rodney Crowell, Shawn Colvin, Ryan Adams and even William Shatner. She landed a contract with Mercury Records, which released the first of her seven albums in 1995.<\/p>\n
Since then, her star power association has extended to producers she\u2019s worked with including Hugh Padgham, John Leventhal, Giles Martin, Richard Bennett and Bill Bottrell. For her new record, Richey returned to Neilson Hubbard, the man behind the boards for her previous effort, 2010\u2019s Wreck Your Wheels<\/i>. And surprise, surprise\u2014Thorn<\/i> features no shortage of guest stars: Jason Isbell, Will Kimbough, pedal steel player Carl Broemel of \u00a0My Morning Jacket, keyboardist Dan Mitchell, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone of Wilco, and Trisha Yearwood (with whom Richey co-wrote Yearwood\u2019s hit,\u00a0\u201cBelieve Me Baby [I Lied]\u201d).<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Neilson and I toured as a trio with Dan Mitchell, there was only so much we could do with the three of us soundwise, so we decided to make our vocals the main element,\u201d Richey explains. \u201cThat\u2019s how this record evolved. I wanted to do more harmony singing, and to me that equates with a country or folk sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cNeilson and I talked a lot about the instrumentation we wanted,\u201d says the Zanesville, Ohio, native. \u201cAnd we had all these great musicians in the studio. We\u2019d play a song and say, \u2018What do you think, guys? Do we need anything extra on this? Anything you want to add?\u2019 It became a big collaboration. That\u2019s how I love to work. I know there are people who go into the studio and say, \u2018Here is what\u2019s going to happen on this song,\u2019 down to the part the guitar player\u2019s going to play. I would rather take people I admire and let them just\u00a0go ahead and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also tapped into a talented pool of co-writers\u2014Hubbard, Mando Saenz, Mike Henderson and Dave Olney among them. \u201cI really enjoy writing with other people,\u201d says Richey, 56. \u201cIt\u2019s a social thing for me. I\u2019m often on my own because I\u2019m pretty happy by myself. But I also love collaborating. Part of it\u2019s the discipline, because I have no discipline whatsoever. Left to my own devices, I\u2019ll go to a movie or find myself swayed by some other distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n
This time Richie established a self-imposed deadline. \u201cI didn\u2019t have much time to write,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI went out on a limb, and I guess that\u2019s the way I work best. I told my booking agent I would have a record out in time so he could start booking a tour in advance. You really have to have a new record every time you go out. So I said, \u2018OK, I\u2019ll have a new album,\u2019 even though I didn\u2019t have the songs, didn\u2019t know who I\u2019d make the record with, didn\u2019t have a label. It all kind of came down to the wire.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, Richey\u2019s happy to again call Nashville home. \u201cI was in a constant state of jet lag there for a while,\u201d she admits. \u201cNow I\u2019m kind of ready to stay put.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Lee Zimmerman<\/b><\/p>\n
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