Kris Delmhorst On Tour

Kris Delmhorst's fourth studio release, Strange Conversation (Signature Sounds, June 2006), is a brand new CD based on the works of various poets. After several albums of genre-bending original work, Kris Delmhorst (Brooklyn, NY) found inspiration in the work of various well-known poets like Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman…

The inspiration for the project arrived by chance. In the midst of writing for another record, Delmhorst picked up a poetry anthology sitting on the coffee table and flipped through the pages. "My eye caught the first line of a Robert Browning poem as it flashed by, and the rhythm of the language was so musical that by the time I had paged backwards to find the poem again, a tune already existed in my head," she recalls. A week's worth of unwashed dishes and unanswered phone calls later, most of a new album had emerged.

Kris Delmhorst is currently performing in Europe. She was in Paris last week; unfortunately I couldn’t see her... For more, visit her official site.

Kris Delmhorst - Galuppi Baldassare .mp3 from Strange Conversation (2006)

Kris Delmhorst - Juice And June .mp3 from Songs For A Hurricane (2003)

In addition, Kris Delmhorst is part of a collective adventure called Redbird. Redbird is both the name of the album (February 2005) and the loose affiliation of three American songwriters that began to take shape during a common tour experience in 2003. Across the tour, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and Peter Mulvey discovered musical affinity and a shared love of a fairly diverse spectrum of Americana.

Redbird - Ships .mp3 from Redbird (2005)