Singer-songwriter Kimmie Rhodes is a native Texan who calls Austin home. Kimmie’s multi-platinum selling songs have been recorded by such stellar acts as Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, CeCe Winans, Joe Ely, John Farnham, Waylon Jennings, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris.

As a creative and prolific artist, she has recorded and released a total of sixteen solo CDs, written and produced three musical plays and a catalogue of hundreds of songs, and published a novel/cookbook. Kimmie is currently serving as an associate producer for a documentary, “They Called Us Outlaws” to be presented by the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville, TN, a trilogy of feature length films to be dedicated in memory of her late husband Joe Gracey, and Waylon Jennings. Kimmie is producing radio documentary/music programming for her show “Radio Dreams”, which focuses on the history and musicology of American roots music and artists. She is also starring with Jaston Williams and Joe Ely in a theatrical production, “Is There Life After Lubbock” and completing a book of memoirs, also called “Radio Dreams.”

Kimmie’s newest release of all new original songs titled “Cowgirl Boudoir” was recently released in March followed by a tour of the UK and Ireland. She is now touring in January 2016 with gigs including appearances at Mid-winter fest’ in Torquay on January 16, 2016 and the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow on January 25th, before dropping in to Bristol

Kimmie grew up in Lubbock, Texas and began her singing career at the age of six with her family gospel trio. She moved to Austin in 1979, where she met DJ at the legendary KOKE FM and producer Joe Gracey, an instrumental figure in the Austin progressive country scene, who she eventually married. Joe was her constant companion, muse, bass player and general “partner in crime” until he died of cancer at the age of 61 in November 2011.

In 1981 she recorded her first album, Kimmie Rhodes and the Jackalope Brothers when Willie Nelson invited her to use his studio. In 1985 she recorded her second album Man In the Moon. Her third album Angels Get The Blues, recorded at the original Sun Studio in Memphis, was released in 1989. These records led to a series of British and European tours that received rave reviews. Kimmie’s promotional tours created a solid fan base in the U.K., Ireland and Europe. She has headlined with her band at festivals all over the world and has appeared on many European and American TV and radio broadcasts. She has also appeared at many of Willie’s Farm Aid concerts and July 4th Picnics. Willie dubbed Kimmie “an undiscovered superstar” and together they recorded two of her originals for his album “Just One Love” and a duet CD, “Picture in a Frame”.

Kimmie appeared on Austin City Limits with Emmylou Harris, Dave Mathews, Patty Griffin, and Buddy & Julie Miller, where she and Emmylou performed their song “Ordinary Heart”. She guested on Late Night with David Letterman, performing “West Texas Heaven” at his request. Kimmie’s TV appearances also include a songwriter “guitar pull” Austin City Limits show with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Billy Joe Shaver.

Kimmie co-wrote a song, “Lines”, with Waylon for his Justice release “Right For The Time”. Kimmie’s movie soundtrack credits include “A Heart That’s True” for the “Babe: A Pig in the City” CD, “I’m Not An Angel” featured in the soundtrack of “Mrs. Winterbourne” and a song in the “Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will” soundtrack. Her song, “Shine All Your Light”, co-written with Beth Nielson Chapman, was recorded by Amy Grant for the Touched By An Angel TV series soundtrack and CD, which reached the Top Ten in Billboard’s CD charts. She co-wrote “Ordinary Heart” with Emmylou Harris and the song was featured in the soundtrack to the movie “Happy Texas”. Emmylou’s performance of the song was nominated for a Grammy.

Kimmie’s 1996 CD West Texas Heaven features 12 of her original songs and includes duets with Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson. Further releases include. 2000 Rich From the Journey (Sunbird), produced by her son Gabe Rhodes. 2002, Love Me Like A Song (Sunbird) features duets with Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Beth Neilsen Chapman. 2004 “Lost & Found”, a set of never-released songs recorded between 1996 and 2003. In 2005 Kimmie released “Windblown”, which also served as the soundtrack for a performance art piece featuring live music, interpretive dance, and character portrayals by Joe Sears. In 2008 “Walls Fall Down” was recorded and released on her independent label, Sunbird.

In 2013 in a rare moment for the well-known songwriter, Kimmie released a CD covering some of her favourite songs, titled Kimmie Rhodes ~ “Covers”. For the first time, the songwriters' songwriter put down her pen to devote an entire album to singing of the songs of others whose music has served milestones of her storied performing and recording career, and her life. Rhodes first studio adventure since the passing of long-time partner and collaborator Joe Gracey, Kimmie draws deep from a wide range of catalogues – Thiele and Weiss, Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Jimmy Reed, Mark Knopfler, Dylan, Bono, Tom Petty, Leon Russell, Neil Young and Tom Waits, and channels close friends Townes Van Zandt and Rodney Crowell, telling each story in that clear, soaring songbird voice that takes ownership of every composition.

Tonight she is back in Bristol performing songs old and new, and from her recent CD “Cowgirl Boudoir”. Accompanied by the her very talented guitar-playing son Gabe, she is also travelling with her daughter Jolie Goodnight who is a performer in her own right, and will support Kimmie’s sets tonight. A not to miss chance to hear a true artist in the field of major singer songwriters

Gabriel (Gabe) Rhodes who apart from being Kimmie’s son, is a well respected American folk and country music musician in his own right, equally known as a record producer based in Austin, Texas. Perhaps best known as an electric and acoustic guitar player, Rhodes is a multi-instrumentalist who has also performed and/or recorded playing piano, dobro, bass, Theremin, and percussion. His contribution to Willie Nelson's The Rainbow Connection was noted in the review of the record by the Austin Chronicle: "Most Valuable Prodigy goes to fleet-fingered Gabe Rhodes, who continues to hit in the big leagues". The Dallas Observer review of Owen Temple's Dollars and Dimes, commented on "the moody, understated accompaniment from producer Gabriel Rhodes fits the mood like an old pair of Levi's". He has produced and recorded projects for Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon Jennings, Ray Price, Emmylou Harris, Dick Rivers, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Kieran Goss and for Kimmie, among others.

He has contributed to more than 17 nationally distributed albums in the last ten years. He also contributed production duties to Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, which won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2005. In 2013, Rhodes collaborated with Paul Marsteller to produce The Beautiful Old, a collection of new recordings of turn-of-the-century songs, with songs performed by Richard Thompson, Garth Hudson and Graham Parker among others. The Daily Telegraph called it a "super musical history lesson" and the Austin Chronicle described it as a "musical time machine.

Jolie Goodnight is a creative tour-de-force, an international jazz and burlesque performer in love with all things decadent and delightful. Hailing back to the days of glitz and glamour, Jolie has dazzled audiences around the US with fan dances, burlesque teases, Champagne baths, and sultry jazz singing. An actress, a chanteuse, and a dancer, Goodnight does what she pleases and delights in her pleasure!

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