You're listening to nakedly examined music, a podcast about songs and songwriters, my name is Mark Linton Meyer.

My guest for episode 216 is Kim Ritchie.

Born in Ohio, moved to Nashville, 1988.

She's been releasing records since 1995. You're right now hearing every River from her second album, Bittersweet.

She's just released a new album, Every New Beginning. We're going to talk about Joy Rider from that album, then look back to a place called Home from Rise 2002.

Then I'm All Right, another from that Bittersweet album, 1997, and we'll end by listening to the first single from the new album called

floating on the surface. For more information, see Kim Ritchie.com. For more about this

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everything I'm referring to in talking to these folks. Let's go.

So I will play it a little of every river from Bittersweet,

1997, to get us in the mood. I was trying to figure out what the arc of your career

is just to be able to sum it up for people. I mean, we've got how many albums total?

I didn't actually write that down. 10 maybe?

Let's see, Kimmeritchie, then bittersweet,

then glimmer, then rise.

I'm not really counting the best of,

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