“I keep coming back to Glasgow cos I LOVE it here!” — Yola Carter Glasgow, Scotland, has been in its sister city Edinburgh’s shadow for far too long. While the latter city is quite rightly famous for its Royal Mile, Fringe […]
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As a very small girl, Kimmie Rhodes was taught to sing by her dad, which sounds like a normal, sweet interaction between a father and a daughter doesn’t it? For Kimmie, it was different. Her father had been orphaned during […]
“Everywhere I go I hear you whisper down my empty streets/Everywhere I go looks like a lonely town,” twanged Kimmie Rhodes during “West Texas Heaven,” her first song of the night. It was cowboy; it was country. She was starting […]
Rhodes’ fourteen song Cowgirl Boudoir is a “been there” exposition of love, loss, survival, recovery and, most of all, precious memories. Captured on familiar territory, Kimmie Rhodes’ Sunbird Studios in Spicewood, Texas, the recording and mixing of Cowgirl Boudoir is credited […]
While Kimmie Rhodes does appear to have been around “forever”, it’s staggering to find she actually recorded her first album in 1981 – 34 years ago! In that time, she’s managed to do what the majority of her contempories have […]
Rich From The Journey is a contemplative, spiritual album set on a seashore where, as the waves fall back from the sand, time — or what we do with it — seems to be all that matters. Kimmie Rhodes’ 1996 […]
Those of us who share a Lone Star state of mind frequently feel that Texas music fails to receive due justice from the music industry at large, that the cross-bred styles that are the state’s stock in trade don’t fit […]
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