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K.T. Oslin to release new album after 15 years 2015-03-12
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Grammy, CMA and ACM award winning artist/singer/songwriter K.T. Oslin is set to release Simply, her first album in 15 years. The album has new arrangements of many of her hits including
Younger Men, Hold Me, Live Close by, Visit Often, 80’s Ladies and others.
“We started out putting together a little band to do some personal appearances. That was my object to spread the music out to maybe some people that didn’t hear it at the time before and I got along with
Jimmy Nichols so well, my keyboard player, co-producer, arranger and poof maker and everything, and we decided why not make a record because we changed everything. I said some of these records, when I hear people that come to see me live and the music seems to become more clear to them than the records we did, that we just didn’t capture it on the record. We just didn’t get it, we just didn’t. I thought they were too good to lay and fallow and just wilt away and so we came up with new arrangements, new ideas and very sparse playing. Just play the notes that are really key, nothing else and that’s what we did. I’m very proud of this little record. It’s a small little record, not meant to be bombastic. It’s meant to be pleasurable and I think it’s an easy record to listen to and I’m happy when people like it,” Oslin stated.
Published by
The Tennessean: September 1998
K.T.: Now follow along closely...
Speaking of the Oilers, K.T. Oslin
joined several
players yesterday to help open a
community health
clinic in Sam Levy Homes in East
Nashville.
K.T. reports she was happy to be a
last-minute
replacement for Tanya Tucker on the
just-released
Tammy Wynette tribute album. Seems that
with Tanya's
D-I-V-O-R-C-E proceedings with Capitol
Records, it
was easier to have someone else sing
Your Good Girl's
Gonna Go Bad, a 1967 hit for Tammy.
K.T. got a call in the morning and cut
the song that
afternoon. And she used Tanya's tracks.
So here's how she describes the finished
product:
"It's K.T. doing Tanya Tucker doing a
tribute to
Tanya Wynette."
Published by
The Tennessean: September 1998
Oslin: Protesters don't have to
rhyme
Some elephant friends are mad because
the Nashville
Humane Association is having a circus
fund-raiser.
And there's apparently a question about
whether the
circus is being kind to elephants.
There's a protest at noon today in front
of the
Nashville Humane Association and singer
K.T. Oslin
will be among the protesters.
"It's a weird position to be in. I've
always
supported humane societies wherever I've
lived," K.T.
told Tennessean reporter Catherine
Trevison.
"But the circus thing, I just think it's
a lousy
idea. I don't understand it. I don't
think wild
animals trained for circuses have good
lives."
But can you see K.T. at a protest?
"I was trying to work out a chant here
before. You've
got to have a chant if you're going to
protest --
`Circus elephants oh my, what a bad
id-e-a.´ "
Published By Countrycool.com Oct. 1,
1999
Oslin and Orchestra Mesh
Versatile stylist and 1988 CMA Female
Vocalist of the Year K.T. Oslin joins
the Nashville Symphony Orchestra this
weekend (Oct. 1 and 2) as they present
the season's pops series opener. To
represent different stages of her
career, Oslin will sing selections
ranging from Broadway music and Gershwin
to '60s favorites.
The outspoken Oslin, whose big hits
include "'80s Ladies," "I'll Always Come
Back" and "Come Next Monday," hasn't
recorded an album since the
critically-acclaimed 1996 release My
Roots Are Showing. Though Oslin was
satisfied with the album, the
"marketplace" and radio reception was
lukewarm at best.
"I'm not one to follow rules," Oslin
recently told The Tennessean. "To play
it safe and pick stuff that is
radio-friendly is not interesting to me.
I would always rather be radical.
There's always a chance that something
odd might work."
The normally unflappable Oslin went on
to say, "[The business] frustrates me in
as much as radio has so much control
over what we are allowed to hear and
makes up our minds as to whether we like
it or not. I resent that gauntlet you
have to run before people get to hear
your music."
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