Album Notes

"....(Forehand) could write a song about the phone book and make it interesting." Performing Songwriter Magazine

*** Kerrville New Folk Winner ***

Kim J. Forehand knows how to craft a song: she’s creative, she’s musical, and she likes to obsess for days over a single line or phrase until it comes together just right. Many of her songs are funny. Some are serious. Most are serious and funny at the same time, like everyday life -- both tragic and comic and everywhere in between. She paints pictures with her songs. She tells stories. She laughs and cries and struggles and forgets. Mostly, she yearns to capture a moment, an emotion, or a situation just as it was, with precision, honesty, insight, and humor.

She’s been a featured performer at clubs, coffeehouses, and festivals, and she’s been the opening act for many nationally known artists like Maura O’Connell, Iris DeMent, Cheryl Wheeler, Michael Hedges, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

Born in Texas, but spending most of her early childhood in rural North Carolina, Forehand grew up listening to the pop music of her time, and the gospel music of the south. She learned to play piano in those years, and she loved to read, write, and entertain. Those interests all came together when she picked up a guitar in the 1980s and started to write songs of her own.

During her first public performance at the 1989 Kaw Valley Songwriters Contest (in Lawrence, Kansas), she took first place. A couple of years later she was a winner at the Napa Valley Folk Festival, then the 1993 Kerrville Folk Festival. Over the years, she has delighted audiences of all ages with her inimitable songs and endearing stage presence.