Kerry Wallace

BIOGRAPHY Sowing Stories from Seed into Song Kerry Wallace Artist Bio “I want the listener to feel my heartfelt conviction, passion and sensitivity when I sing so they experience it like they were living it.  Which many are!” - Kerry Wallace In today's world, real music has become a rarity. Genuine music does still exist, you just have to know where to look … like in the Wilds of Wyoming. It is there that singer/songwriter Kerry Wallace stands steadfastly against the wind - sowing stories from seed into song. The result is an authentic and incomparable blend of folk, country, bluegrass and Americana, branded into a style all her own. “I've spent years nurturing things to live,” she explains. “I’ve raised children and everything from livestock to crops.” And now, Kerry has found time to nurture something else that is near and dear to her heart; her music. Kerry’s musical identity began within her family – which remains as central today in her music as it was for her in her youth. Her mother was a pianist, her father played guitar. With musical siblings, the muses were alive and well within the walls of the Wallace home. She was immersed with the sound of folk and country coming from the radio, classical from her mom’s piano, and the almost nightly live family jams (that even grandpa would join!) Indeed, Kerry had fertile ground to grow musically. Trained classically in piano and music theory and playing the guitar by the age of eight, it would be the six-string that would eventually become her favorite instrument. With tongue-in-cheek Kerry notes that “…the guitar was just so much easier to carry around than the piano!” She spent hours strumming along to the albums of artists such as Tanya Tucker, James Taylor and Emmylou Harris. By fifteen, she was performing as a solo act in coffeehouses, pubs, and with a folk group alongside a bookmobile in New Mexico. In her twenties she performed in New Mexico and Colorado in a duo called Brown & Thomas.  Kerry grew up in the rural Rocky Mountains, and has lived from New Mexico to Montana, but it is Wyoming she calls home. She explains, “Each place we lived was a source of inspiration.” The different people, weather, culture, landscapes, and traditions were forming the creative ideas, themes and insights she would turn into songs.  For the two decades Kerry was riding the Wyoming range, meeting ranchers and absorbing their wisdom and stories, her music career wasn't dormant – besides branding cattle, she was literally branding her own genre, playing with bands in Wyoming and Montana. Then her father and uncle - both integral to her musical development as a child – said they wished she would record an album. It was her family once again that had brought her full-circle, back to music, and her friends would help her bring that vision to life. Kerry entitled her debut album Songs to Sing and Tales to Tell. The album is a deeply personal journey including eight covers, two traditional selections, and four originals. Three of the originals were penned by Wallace; “Cold Wind Blowin,” “Love Rains Down,” and “Alone Again,” which are emotive journeys into love, loss, betrayal and life decisions. The album was produced, mixed and engineered by Ben Winship at Henhouse Recording Studio in Idaho. Her first release to radio was in late 2013, with “Love Rains Down,” a melodic introspective journey correlating weather and emotion. With Kerry’s perfect pitch and velvet-rich vocals – she is able to create soundscape that accurately takes the listener on a journey; this is exemplified by her “Cold Wind Blowin’,” with touches of country western and folk, where the listener is whisked away by the violin-laden storyline to the frozen tundra of Wyoming. In 2013, she formed a band called Bluesage and Lace, with banjo ace Larry Roetzel and songwriter Cal Winland. Winland’s song “Under the Wyoming Moon” was also included on Songs to Sing and Tales to Tell. She has recently begun working with J.K Coltrain’s Colt Records in Nashville and in 2014 is gathering new material for her next album. Kerry’s songwriting reflects her country life – and she has branded a genre all her own. Don’t call it country, don’t call it blues – brand this as R.E.A.L. music. Everyone’s life is a story and Kerry Wallace has spent her lifetime gathering, experiencing, and feeling those stories; they are the seeds of her songs, and are coming to fruition.