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PRESS
Radio / TV / Film:
* Kristi was nominated "Best Female Vocalist" in the 3rd Annual 102.9 Local Buzz Rock Awards in Nashville
* "Little Wave Goodbye" was selected for the Music City Unsigned Podcast (Episode 6) sponsored by Jack FM
* Kristi was a featured guest on 102.9 the Local Buzz show where she was interviewed on air and "No Vacancy" tracks "Ghost in the Backseat", "Little Wave Goodbye", and "Save Me" were spun
* "Ghost in the Backseat" from "No Vacancy" featured on XM Satellite Radio's Radar Report and Nashville's 102.9 the Local Buzz
* Kristi's music has been selected by Pump Audio to be licensed through a non-exclusive agreement to film, television, web, and advertising clients
* "Calling" off of the Kristi Rush EP has had multiple spins on WRLT Lightning 100’s Local Lightning Spotlight
* "That's What Music Does to Me" from the Kristi Rush EP featured on Vanderbilt's 91.1 FM
* Songs from the Kristi Rush EP have been featured on Radio Free Nashville WRFN 98.9
* Kristi has performed on the WZTV Fox 17 Charlie Chase Morning Show in Nashville.
Reviews:
* "Raven-haired, ebony mascara-wearing Nashville rocker Kristi Rush will be featured at 9 p.m. Sunday (7/22) on the "Local Buzz" show on 102.9. She'll chat and play tunes from her debut "No Vacancy" CD. The playlist no doubt will include this femme-metal grinder which is already being programmed by the station. Recommended." - Review of "Ghost in the Backseat" from debut album "No Vacancy", by Robert K. Oermann of Music Row Magazine
* "Kristi Rush has got a crystal clear artistic identity and the powerhouse vocals, songs, and production to back it up. I'm a fan." - Jason Blume, Hit Songwriter/BMI Workshop Instructor
* "'No Vacancy' is a great piece of work. Powerful, compelling, and passionate." - Bob Leone, National Projects Director, Songwriters Hall of Fame (1998-2006)
* "No Vacancy" selected as an "Editor's Pick" in the Adult Alternative Pop/Rock Category on CDBaby.
* "'Calling' really is a great song and a great sounding record. I'm proud to play it. More stations should be playing it." - Gary Kraen, WRLT Lightning 100
* "Kristi is an indie pop-rocker in Tune Town. The song writing here is first rate, as is the meaty, slashing guitar work by co-producer Rutledge. Her singing is at its best when she's harmonizing with herself on the soaring choruses." - Review of "Calling" from the Kristi Rush EP, by Robert K. Oermann of Music Row Magazine
* "Kristi is an innovative artist bringing a unique style to the music forefront." - Kim Wood Sandusky, Vocal Consultant
* "Kristi Rush's music is smart. She brilliantly crafts melodies that highlight her powerful, soaring voice with razor sharp lyrics that are moving, exciting and memorable. Her ability to write songs in a range of styles will certainly be an asset in what will likely be a long music career." - Evan Shoemake, Songwriters Guild of America
* Featured in the Nashville City Paper "Heard Around Town" full page article by Will Ayers
Awards:
* Out of 42,000 albums, "No Vacancy" is nominated Best Alternative Album in the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards
* "Forever Alone", off of the Kristi Rush EP, chosen as Finalist in the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest
* "Kaleidoscope Eyes" placed Runner-up in the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest & received Honorable Mention in the Billboard World Song Contest and the Nashville Song Search
Kristi Rush's first full length album has been in the making since the release of her EP in 2005. Kristi spent a year writing many songs, recording demos, and performing them live. From this experience, she selected her best songs and started the search for a producer. At the end of this search she found Elisha Hoffman, an amazing rock producer who had made a name for himself in the Nashville rock scene through his production work with Alana Grace (subsequently signed to Sony) and American Bang (recently signed to Warner Brothers). Kristi and Elisha were introduced by Paul Compton, Sr. Vice President of Murrah Music, a publishing company in Nashville. Murrah had just started a new pop/rock publishing and production division, Murrah Colton Entertainment, with Doug Colton at the helm. Elisha had recently signed with Murrah Colton as a writer/producer. After a few initial meetings and pre-production, Kristi and Elisha went into the studio.
"No Vacancy" boasts a talented group of musicians including Tony Harrell on piano/keyboards (India Arie), Spencer Campbell on bass (Eagle Eye Cherry), Tate Cunningham on drums (Crew), Steve Rutledge on guitars, Gary Tussing on cello (Trey Anastasio), Peter Hyrka on violin (Gypsy Hombres), and Elisha on guitars and programming. The album was recorded at Vibe56 with engineer, Kevin McDevitt manning the board, and Geoff Koval mixing it up. After a few months of recording, "No Vacancy" was born.
Kristi's Thoughts on "No Vacancy"
When I thought about making my first record, I thought about the records that I love the most. Why do I love them? Why do I listen to them over and over and over, even after many years? I concluded that the records I love most are the ones in which the artist utterly and completely permeate whatever they are obsessing about into their music. Their obsession becomes the music - whether it is anger, apathy, or desperation, the artist goes to the depth of the soul with raw, vulnerable, unabashed emotion and in doing so strikes a chord deep inside each of us.
So in making my first record, I strive to be honest and without fear so that my innermost feelings come out on the paper and the music becomes the living spirit of the words. Then I look over my work and find the collection of songs that represent my artistic obsession, and a record is born.
"No Vacancy"
Vacancy is the state or condition of being vacant; emptiness. “No Vacancy” is a depiction of the period of time I spent sleepwalking through my life and the aftermath of the awakening that started a new one. Sleepwalking for me was actually living life so fast that I lost myself. I wasn’t sure who I was anymore. I know I didn’t like what I was doing, but I didn’t know my way out of it. So I lived faster and piled distraction upon distraction to keep myself from thinking about being lost, much less how to be found. But I was haunted. Even while sleepwalking, I was haunted by something deep inside telling me that I needed to change, that there was something better. Finally, after a lot of crying and turmoil, I woke up. And packed up. I ended a successful, but miserable, career and moved across the country to find the real me.
An awakening of this magnitude changes everything. The aftermath is a total sense of freedom – the relief that I will never go back to my old life. The aftermath is the realization that I’ve chosen to live consciously, to actually think about who I am, who I want to be, and what I want to do. The aftermath is the realization that living consciously means actually hearing the little voice in your head (it’s much louder when you’re awake). Sometimes the voice whispers hope, sometimes it shouts FAILURE. I choose not to let fear rule my life, so the aftermath is ultimately the search, and the search is on. “No Vacancy” is the search for self, the search for spirituality to battle the shouting voice, the search to find your soul from the ether to make you feel alive again.
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