Kim Richey

Kim Richey has enjoyed her greatest commercial success as a country artist, but her wise, sweet, relatable songs can just as easily be categorized as pop, contemporary folk, or adult alternative. Her soft yet deceptively strong voice and impressive gifts as a tunesmith took her from Ohio to Nashville, where she cut 1995's Kim Richey and 1997's Bitter Sweet, but she detoured into a more pop-oriented sound on 1999's Glimmer. After years of dealing with record company politics, Richey moved to a British indie label for 2013's Thorn in My Heart, and found a home at Yep Roc records for literate, down-to-earth efforts like 2018's Edgeland and 2024's Every New Beginning.