Kim Richey "Chinese Boxes" Era

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ARTIST: KIM RICHEY

SINGLE: JACK AND JILL

Endearing singer/songwriter Kim Richey has been AWOL for the greater part of a decade, and while she remains best known as a songwriter of hits by Radney Foster, Dixie Chicks, Trisha Yearwood and Patty Loveless, her vocal stamp remains appreciable to anyone who recalls her breathtaking 1999 album "Glimmer" and accompanying single "If You Don't Mind." "Jack and Jill" is a triple-A gift, with organic, midtempo bounce, relaxed vocal and ironic lyric about "how time slipped away" between the title characters. An easy add for the format from an underappreciated talent. From the upcoming "Chinese Boxes."

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Reviewed by Brian Mansfield
USA Today

Kim Richey, Chinese Boxes: * * * (out of four) Good things in small packages

This Nashville singer-songwriter sure attracts her share of great producers, from country guitarist Richard Bennett on her 1995 debut to Hugh Padgham on 1999’s Glimmer. British producer Giles Martin is the perfect choice for the “magic spells and misdirection” of Richey’s latest collection, her first in five years. Martin packs each track with pleasant surprises - the harpsichord and lilting whistle on Jack and Jill, the horns on Chinese Boxes, the flute on Something to Say - as Richey sings about relationships that never seem to be what they ought.