Jim: You guys are going out on tour with Orgy. How long are you going to be on tour for? Jim: Jason Rufuss Sewell started out as your record producer and ended up in your band. How did this come about? Jim: In April of 2011 Gut's and Glitter issue of Guitar Player magazine listed you as one of "The 20 Most Extraordinary Female Guitarists". How does that make you feel? Jim: The song "You're A Vampire", is that going to be on one of your new albums? Jim: You have a new album coming out right? Jim: What inspires you to write a song? Jim: I saw a video for the song “Believe In Me”, it seems very personal, can you tell me a little about it? Jim: Your fans, describe them. Related Links: Back to Interviews Directory If you do not see a menu on the left click here to launch BeyondReflection (main page) in a new window.
Kimberly: The first show's in Vegas. This one looks like seven weeks. We have been doing this back to back tour thing, the past year and a half, around the U.S. kinda coast to coast.
Kimberly: It's something I never would have expected. I didn't see it coming at all. He would end up in my band. I just always thought of him as my producer. It's funny because He and I both moved to Austin about the same time. He moved his studio out to Austin and I kinda landed there with my band. He showed up to one of my shows, handed me his card and said, “I'm a producer, I have a studio. I'm looking for the coolest band in town to record, so I can have a good portfolio here and you’re it. So come record with me.” I was living in my car and even though I wanted to do it, I said we would have to wait until we were doing better financially. He said, “well just come out and check it out and we'll talk.” We worked something out. My drummer at the time was a painter and Jason needed his house painted, so we painted that place all summer in trade for studio hours. That's how my first album came about. I went through lots and lots and lots of band mates. Jason and I made tons of albums together and eventually he joined the band.
Kimberly: I know, isn't that crazy? I am completely blown away by that. I'm honored and really, really surprised. I don't feel like I'm worthy to be on that list for sure.
Kimberly: We have an album planned for that one, but for now it's just a single; just something we did.
Kimberly: Yeah we do, this one is gonna be a lot different, it's gonna be a 12 inch vinyl record. We may or may not release it on CD. We recorded this one to be a record and I know that may mean we might not sell as many but, I don't care. It's something I have always wanted to do. We recorded it with Sylvia Massy at her place; we used all the cool analog gear and just got dirty with it. It brought out my more bluesy side which I don't show a lot in One-Eyed Doll.
Kimberly: Everything inspires me, for example: I'm in LA right now hanging out with my Aunt Lynn. My new found Aunt Lynn. I'm kind of rediscovering some of my family recently and my Aunt Lynn is from Cambodia. She is telling me all these stories and I just had a whole album in my head being made as she was telling me all these crazy stories about living in a jungle and everything. It's the way I express myself; I'm not sure I express myself really well. Just talking to people or the way I dress or any other kind of way so everything that I'm thinking, it kind of becomes a song so everything inspires me; people, nature, and mostly my life and my inward thoughts.
Kimberly: It has a big back story behind it. It has a lot to do with my adopted Grandpa Bernie; amazing performer all his life. What I am doing now is inspired by him. He was the first performance I ever saw, and I came to him when I decided I wanted to become a performer. He gave me his advice and his guitar, which I wrote my first songs on and still play. He was maybe a thousand years old and coming to the end of his life, and I feel busy and wrapped up in what I'm doing, traveling and scheduling. I didn't get to see family a whole lot and he got sick and was in the hospital. I borrowed some money to get a flight there for the next morning. I just hated that I couldn't just hop a plane and be there. I sat in my trailer, in the trailer park where I lived and I wrote the song. The line “my mind keeps drifting back to California there's someone I'm dying to see," is about him, he lived in L.A. and Hollywood most of his life. I video tapped myself singing and playing the song so I could remember it, and play it for him in his hospital room, the song I wrote for him, on his guitar, but he died while I was in the air, so I didn't actually get to see him that last time. I decided to post that video; maybe other people had been through that type of loss and it could help them out.
Kimberly: They're crazy. They're amazing. Life attracts life. Everyone is an individual, everyone different. The way I see them is kind of like a lot of people who don't have a whole lot to relate to, just like me. I never felt like I fit in anywhere, and I see a lot of people who kind of feel like I do.
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