Publisher's Synopsis
In 1996 Kimmie Rhodes released West Texas Heaven, an album that marked a ground-breaking moment in her career as a singer-songwriter, to critical acclaim. It featured duets with fellow Texans Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt. Now she has released the album West Texas Heaven Revisited, which has been re-mixed and re-mastered along with some rare bonus "outtake" tracks from the original sessions and a duet with Emmylou Harris & Beth Nielsen Chapman.
This companion songbook, West Texas Heaven Revisited; Stories and Songs is comprised of her personal archival photos and images from the era and music scores of the songs with guitar charts and lyrics. A journal in words and music, it includes a memoir for each song that intimates how and why the songs were written and stories about the recordings and the extremely fortunate and unlikely circumstances under which these sessions with herAmericana heroes came to be. "This is a voice you could listen to all day." - British Vogue Magazine "With a voice like fine dry wine & imagery as sharp as steel, this singer/songwriter is compelling."
- USA Today "... the voice of a beautiful child coming from an old soul. She touches us where the better angels of our natures dwell."
- Emmylou Harris "Kimmie Rhodes: The soul of a poet and the voice of an angel."
- Rodney Crowell
