The Minipops, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkle, The Cardigans, The Weakerthans, Patti Griffin, and Christina Agullera. Ok, I'm kidding about Christina Agullera. See, I don't even know how to spell her name.
Kim McMechan spent her childhood pretending to practice her minuets when really, she was trying to write songs somewhere in genre between Abba and John Denver. You can't imagine what a terrible combination this was.
In 2000 and 2001, while living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kim performed and contributed 13 songs to a series of compilation albums which have collectively sold, to date, nearly 90,000 copies and garnered Kim radio play on radio stations across North America and Australia.
In 2005 she released her first solo work, Little Grey House, and EP which gathered some lovely reviews from The Georgia Straight (Vancouver) and Uptown Magazine (Winnipeg).
In 2007, she took best New Artist at the Okanagan Music Awards, she tied for first place in the Songwriting category at the Shuswap International Writer's Festival and her song Parachute won the Songbird West Songwriting Contest with Music BC.
Last year, after she decided she was quitting the whole music thing for good ("for real this time" she said to her friend Mike over a chai latte) she met a wonderful producer named Danny McBride and together, they recorded an album of 10 songs. The album was meant to be Kim's second release. Unfortunately, things on the business end got a little wonky and they had to pull out.
Kim came away with 5 of the recordings and she is planning a second album for, like, any day now.
The new songs posted were stellarly produced by Danny McBride and engineered by Adam Wittke
"Another great song penned by Kim McMechan, Canada's best-kept secret."
-Jeff McCann, Christrock.com
"You have such an original way of writing. You make music new to me."
-David Wilcox
TO PURCHASE A COPY OF LITTLE GREY HOUSE, VISIT www.kimmcmechan.com, itunes or CdBaby.com
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Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
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Hey Gorgeousness! I'm playing at the Minstrel on Tuesday then I'm out of town until next week again. Hope you have been having a great autumn so far. The tour was great! Humbling and Inspiring... I learned a lot! That's what life's about. Will be great to have a cup of coffee and catch up. I'm sure your little angels are keeping you on your toes! Kisses & Hugs my dear... call me or I'll call you next week once I get settled. Blessings, Leah
Sending a little photo from autumn in New Jersey. My parents are just a little passionate about their garden! :) They spend a lot of weekends together making it beautiful.
When I went to listen to my itunes yesterday, I couldn't decide on a custom playlist to listen to, so I just hit the "top 25 most played songs" list. Well, it seems that in my household, you my dear are a favorite, as 2 of your songs were on our top 25.
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Hi Kim I love your mood, atmosphere. Very pretty songs. My Fav is Parachute. Maybe You'll enjoy "Ses Yeux verts" on my page. Let me know if you feel like it. Have a nice day Denis
Happy Birthday Beautiful! I'll need to buy you a birthday coffee downtown! Maybe we'll go sit by the water. Wishing you a prosperous, healthy, and happy year filled with many joys. Kisses my friend, Leah
Missing Saturday? What happened? I mustve missed it. This drummer wished you grace and mercy from above, and good juju from others. Can't wait for the next release!
I got the CD today in the mail. Thanks. I am enjoying it so much. There are a number of songs on your myspace that are not on the CD. Are you working on a new album??
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