Americana Music Magazine – Bluegrass, Roots, Folk, Blues, and Old-Time
Kim Edwards resides in the little village of North Hampton, PA, “for reference, if you listen to Billy Joel, it’s near Allentown,” she clarified. The now stay-at-home mom said she’s, “always been doing music, off and on, for the last 15 to 20 years. It certainly ebbs and flows, but with this new album coming out, it’s flowing a little more right now,” Kim laughed.
Kim started playing piano when she was in kindergarten, just learning the basics, but didn’t really love it until her early teens. “You start to recognize things you want to play, and they start coming a little easier, then you start wanting to practice because the results come quicker,” she said.
For a long time Kim thought she wanted to be a film composer. “I just loved all these movie scores I heard. Then around 14 or 15 I started writing songs, and adding words, and it just snow balled from there.”
In 2012 Kim released her first full length album, Wanderlust, and followed that with a few singles, before dialing into this latest project, Vignettes. This is the most personal and fully realized project of her career, co-produced by Jared Salte. The album serves as a dream fulfilled, as “each song has its own special place in my heart,” she says. “There’s not a single piece of filler.”
“Some of the songs are as old as 2012,” she explained. “I don’t know that I ever intended on putting out a concept album, but it kind of became that. They are sort of the odd balls that didn’t really fit on other projects, but I always loved them. They are really a bunch of story songs – that’s the best way to put it.”
Kim has entered into a reflective new chapter in her life, realizing that in a world obsessed with virility and speed, artistry rooted in depth, patience, and honesty endures. Her music offers a quiet refuge for the reflective listener.