Kim hit this world and Houston, Texas in 1963. Like a bullet from a .357 magnum, her life has been fast, chaotic, and the impact when she hits you will leave you stunned. The music started on her dad’s tour bus when Bob Dylan was singing "How Does It Feel" to an America embroiled in Vietnam where the kids were the victims of Free Love and a New Morality. She was six. It’s amazing, after being treated like another trunk full of equipment – tossed here and there – often left to fend for herself, that she grew to embrace the music instead of running the other way. She met Charley Pride. She listened to Johnny Cash. She met the Devil. She cried. She wrote about it. Life and times never could quite keep up with Kim. She kept moving. Stuck out her thumb sometime in 76’ or so. Took a long road trip of her own, out from Houston (or was it Baton Rouge? Little Rock? Hell?) on out to wherever she felt safe. She heard Kris Kristofferson as he "Helped her make it through the night" and damn, if she could just run into that Bobby McGee fella just once. These were the early influences on her own soon to be discovered musical style. She finally made it back towards Houston and settled, but by no means settled down.

What’s in her music now? Same as it’s always been. Just ask her…

"It’s the way I look at things. What hurts..What makes you angry…and happy. What’s right & wrong, or at least what I perceive as right or wrong. I get a feel for what my friends and family go through. What I go through. My friend dies….I have a son….My brother goes to prison. I feel these things. I write about these things that inspire me. The good, the bad, the unruly….constant reality checks mixed in with what sometimes seems like science fiction. I don’t think I could ever stop writing songs. Even though my life has slowed down, the one I’m living is still full of new inspirations and the songs that go with them. Dylan, Cash, Kristofferson, Tom Petty, when I listen I think Damn! I couldn’t have said it better myself! Are you sure you’re not writing about me? To me, these guys are the Godfathers of songwriting. They put into words what life can put you through."

Well guess what?….So does she!… and she kept her songbook. She got another one and filled it up too. She has a nice new Gibson electric that’s been the perfect compliment to her acoustic and her acoustic-electric. Her style is all hers though. Songs like "Hell on my Halo", "This Ain’t no Prison", "Narrow Path" all Crossroads in her journey. "Don’t Fall Down", "Life’s Highway", "Pity Pot Fit to Kill" songs of victory and joy over terrible odds. "Better Blind " and "One that’s Got My Back" remind us that we all need a little help from above from time to time. From sometimes somber, thought provoking ballads to bluesy, sensual escapades to upbeat rockabilly to pure country….Kim’s repertoire crosses musical boundaries like that .357 magnum that brought her here. It shatters them like a plate of glass. It’s all Kim, all the time.