(From her website.)
Kristi's roots were firmly planted in the traditional country music of her North Texas home and her songwriting reflects the long highways, lonely drives, love of family and landing at home that she learned from both small-town living and traveling the west singing in barrooms, honky-tonks and bowling alleys. Along with her songwriting partner, Steve Branstetter, Kristi sticks to telling true (or mostly true) stories while letting inspiration, rather than genre, take the lead.
Naturally shy, Kristi long struggled to gain the confidence to let her voice as a songwriter emerge, being far more comfortable to let her singing voice take center stage. For many years, Kristi and her bands performed only cover songs, keeping her original music largely to herself. But with her forthcoming album, with the working title "West End of Pearl," Kristi and Steve open a trove of new original musical stories. The songs range from cheeky stories of traveling bands, and truck-driving ladies, to heartfelt stories of friendship emerging from lonely places and the regret of saying words that should never have been said.
With a 2024 release, Kristi is currently working on finalizing the album, shooting videos to support the first two singles, and will be playing acoustic shows and shows with the full band - featuring the new material and her stylized covers of Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and a range of Kristi's favorite artists and writers.
