kim richey a long way back

​Kim Richey (from the album A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer available on Yep Roc Records)
Visiting old friends was the goal when Kim Richey entered the Nashville studio of producer Doug Lancio to reinterpret her 1999 album release, Glimmer. The project became her recent release, A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer. Kim Richey walks into a hushed musical backing on the title track, the slow steps that follow the strums bears the weight backing her words as A Long Way Back skips on the rotating rhythms of “Other Side of Town”, shares “Good at Secrets” on a heartbeat thump, and walks through a musical soundscape alive with flickering guitar notes for “Lay It Down”. The stripped-back re-imaginings of her music shines a light on the songwriting of Kim Richey as The Songs of Glimmer digs deep into the workings of love and life.
 
Musical accompaniment on A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer was in the hands of producer Doug Lancio, who played most of the instruments, aided by musical help from Nielsen Hubbard, Dan Mitchell and Aaron Smith. Reverie opens the song cycle for the album, Kim Richey dealing out memories caught in their own loop with “Come Around”, watching seasons revolve around the sun for “So It Goes”, and gets caught in the pull of the rotating rhythms of “Gravity”. 
 
A staff songwriter that made the leap into her own releases, Kim Richey feels that the original release for Glimmer was her first batch of true confessional tunes, penning the stories from her own life rather than observations on the existence and choices of others. Falling back two decades, Kim Richey recalled that ‘I started off that record scared to death’ feeling that the Hugh Padgham-produced album, recorded in New York and London, as well as a disastrous haircut, unfamiliar musicians, and oversized budgets were part of the problem, summing up the experience as ‘it wasn’t the way I was used to making records’.
A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer puts Kim Richey in her comfort zone, making the studio an intimate setting, perfect as the reality check for a former lover in “The Way It Never Was” while it builds confidence for a companion with “Strength in You”. Kim Richey sees tough times as a blip on her screen when she dresses for success in “Can’t Lose Them All”, greets an old acquaintance on a raggedy Folk rhythm with “Hello Old Friend”, and calls a cease fire in “If You Don’t Mind”.
 
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