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Love Me Like a Song by Kimmie Rhodes
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fave it Folk Pop | Country Folk
13 tracks | 50 minutes
Released Sep 2002
on Sunbird Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 Darkness Lifting lyrics BUY MP3 03:50 Darkness Lifting lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:50 Darkness Lifting
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:16 I Have Everything lyrics BUY MP3 04:16 I Have Everything lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:16 I Have Everything
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:37 Only Love Can Save Me Now lyrics BUY MP3 04:37 Only Love Can Save Me Now lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:37 Only Love Can Save Me Now
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Love Me Like a Song lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Love Me Like a Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Love Me Like a Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:55 Send Me the Sun lyrics BUY MP3 03:55 Send Me the Sun lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:55 Send Me the Sun
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:09 Midnight Song lyrics BUY MP3 06:09 Midnight Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:09 Midnight Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Play Me a Memory lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Play Me a Memory lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Play Me a Memory
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:53 Louis' World lyrics BUY MP3 01:53 Louis' World lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:53 Louis' World
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:14 We've Done This Before lyrics BUY MP3 03:14 We've Done This Before lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:14 We've Done This Before
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:11 Witness to the Crime lyrics BUY MP3 03:11 Witness to the Crime lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:11 Witness to the Crime
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:49 Love and Happiness For You lyrics BUY MP3 04:49 Love and Happiness For You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:49 Love and Happiness For You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:07 November December lyrics BUY MP3 03:07 November December lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:07 November December
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:25 The One to Walk You Home lyrics BUY MP3 04:25 The One to Walk You Home lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:25 The One to Walk You Home
Smooth and sweet folky pop steeped in the richness of Country and scattered by the winds of Texas.
Editorial review
There was a time when Kimmie Rhodes was comfortably ensconced in the country genre. In fact, her early music was downright honky tonk at times, occasionally making further diversions into Tex-Mex and Western swing -- about as hardcore country & western as it gets, in other words. But that phase had long since passed by the time the sumptuous Rich From the Journey was released. The album was country in only the most tangential way, and only if you coerced it into the category. Rhodes does sonically inch back toward the country fold somewhat on Love Me Like a Song, which should more than satisfy those who missed that aspect of the singer/songwriter's music on the previous effort. Fellow mavericks and spiritual forebears Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris even make a pair of guest spots apiece, each wonderful, particularly the former's turn on the gorgeous "We've Done This Before" and the latter's on the gospel-flecked "Send Me the Sun," also featuring Beth Nielsen Chapman. And yet rigidly labeling her sound no longer does Rhodes' art justice. More than anything, she is about songs, plain and simple, and this album contains a tremendously well-written set of them. Although there are fewer atmospheric washes of electric keyboards, there is healthy carryover from Rich From the Journey, particularly in the delicate, airy melodies and the sense of rebirth and contentment that imbues the lyrics, most affectingly so on "Darkness Lifting" and "The One to Walk You Home" (another duet, this time with Benmont Tench). Nevertheless, the overall sound, again produced by son Gabe Rhodes, has a shade more punch and transparency, a bit more of the Austin lope here (the worldly-wise "Witness to the Crime") and a return to electrically bluesy sass there ("Midnight Song"). The songwriter also strikes out into enchanting new landscapes with "Play Me a Memory," an honest to goodness show tune done Broadway style, and the Eastern European eccentricities of "Louis' World" and "November December." All further evidence of why Kimmie Rhodes is one of the secret treasures of Texas song. ~ Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Kimmie Rhodes is a native Texan who grew up in Lubbock, Texas and began her singing career at the age of six with her family gospel trio. She moved to Austin in 1979, where she met DJ and producer Joe Gracey, an instrumental figure in the Austin music scene who she eventually married.
She has appeared at many of Willie's Farm Aid concerts and July 4th Picnics. Willie says Kimmie is "an undiscovered superstar" and together they recorded two of her originals for his album Just One Love.
Kimmie recently appeared on Austin City Limits with Emmylou Harris, Dave Mathews, Patty Griffin, and Buddy & Judy Miller, where she and Emmylou performed their Grammy-nominee song "Ordinary Heart" (nominated for Best Female Country Vocal). She has also guested on Late Night With David Letterman, performing "West Texas Heaven" at his request.
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