Cider Mag - November 2013 | Page 37

issue 37 working_Layout 1 11/1/2013 1:18 PM Page 37 CIDER MAGAZINE sse es an a l, I er sic f nd s t ny are ern care ave nly u- tsy nn. ck ad, ISSUE 36 been heard yet, so seek it out yourself. The radio doesn't always represent every genre in its entirety. GKW: Listening to your music, I definitely feel you’re taking a different path than other female country singers, a path I haven’t heard from others in years. KM: I'm a songwriter and I just write about the things than inspire me, which is a very wide variety of things. People want to talk about parts of my songs like they're wild ideas, but really I'm just being a songwriter. GKW: Throughout my time interviewing country musicians, I’ve always been fascinated at how varied their musical tastes are. Who’s catching your ear these days? KM: I love Alison Krauss, Mindy Smith, John Prine, Miguel, Bruno Mars, a lot of old country, Weezer, CAKE, Ryan Adams, Brandy Clark — it's all over the map. PG 37 GKW: What’s the future hold for you? How are handling the attention and award nominations? KM: People ask me all the time about the future and where I want to be. All I can say is that I want to be happy and continue being a songwriter. I'm learning how to be present and thankful in this current moment and that's really all I can do. WWW.CIDERMAG.COM