Josh & Kristi Grider Release New Collaborative EP, Live At Gruene Records

Artist: Josh & Kristi Grider

Album: Live at Greune Records

Label: Bootstrap Records

Release date: 9/18/2020

The husband and wife team of Josh and Kristi Grider recorded a live album together back last December in front of a studio audience at Gruene Records in New Braunfels, TX and now are releasing a collaborative EP together titled, appropriately, Live at Gruene Records.  

Says, Josh, "Last December, back when we thought 2019 was the most trying year in recent memory and we all couldn't wait for 2020 to arrive, Kristi and I had the cool opportunity to play a Living Room Sessions concert at Gruene Records here in New Braunfels.  That evening we decided to also press record and see what happened. She and I were joined by her producer, and our good friend, Nolan Burke on guitar, Sean Rodriguez on bass, and Chris Compton Drums on the tubs.  We basically set up in the main tracking room and did a recording session in front of a small gathering of fans and friends.  Kristi and I are very excited for this to be in the world.  To say it's been a long time coming is a bit of an understatement.  We can't wait for you to hear it."

Josh and Kristi Grider have been making a life, musically and otherwise, for nearly twenty years together. Each has followed their own professional path and occasionally those paths have crossed, but question comes up again and again, "when will you guys do something together?" On December 6th at Gruene Records in New Braunfels, TX Josh and Kristi finally did just that. Kristi has been featured on a number of Josh's solo recordings as duet partner and background vocalist, and hrough the years there have been a number of shows on which they've performed together—but never an official project. Kristi released her first EP earlier in 2019 landing her in the top twenty on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and establishing herself as far more than a great singer, but a great writer as well. Charisma, honesty, and talent is one thing...but the bond and the stories that twenty years as a couple brings to their performance is what truly sets them apart.

Track listing:

Birds of a Feather

Snowin' on Raton

The Moon

Goodnight Sweet Dreams

Man on the Mountain

Here's the accompanying music video from the couple for "Birds of a Feather."

 

Josh & Kristi Grider Record New Collaborative Live Album

The husband and wife team of Josh and Kristi Grider recorded a live album together on Friday night in front of a studio audience at Gruene Records in New Braunfels, TX. 

Josh said on his Facebook account, "It's been almost twenty years coming...but it's never too late! Kristi Foster Grider and I are FINALLY going to make a project together. A good portion of the project will be a live recording..."

Josh and Kristi Grider have been making a life, musically and otherwise, for nearly twenty years together. Each has followed their own professional path and occasionally those paths have crossed, but question comes up again and again, "when will you guys do something together?" On December 6th at Gruene Records in New Braunfels, TX Josh and Kristi finally did just that. Kristi has been featured on a number of Josh's solo recordings as duet partner and background vocalist, and hrough the years there have been a number of shows on which they've performed together—but never an official project. Kristi released her first EP earlier in 2019 landing her in the top twenty on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and establishing herself as far more than a great singer, but a great writer as well. Charisma, honesty, and talent is one thing...but the bond and the stories that twenty years as a couple brings to their performance is what truly sets them apart.

No news yet on when the album might be released, but count us here at That Nashville Sound very intrigued. 

That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: Vince Gill, Julie Roberts, Bryan White, Kristi Grider & More

There's lots of news this morning on some on some of your favorite legacy artists and more- so without further ado...

- Vince Gill will return with his new album, Okie, to be released Aug. 23. Gill, who wrote or co-wrote all 12 tracks on the album, derived the album’s name from a once-derogatory term meant to disparage migrants from Oklahoma to the west coast during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression.

“I thought this was going to be a songwriter record, not a concept album,” Gill says. “It wound up being more information than I’d envisioned. A friend sent me an email saying, ‘You could have only written this record after living a 60-year-plus life.’ He said, ‘There’s no struggle in these songs, just truth and your experience.”

- Julie Roberts is releasing new music. On May 17th, the songstress will release her new single, "I Couldn't Make You Love Me."

- Country music veteran Bryan White is also back with new music. He will be releasing the single "It Must Be Love"on May 31.

- Music City Hit-Makers (MCHM) will release their debut EP, Songs & Symphony, on June 4. The EP features some of Nashville’s most successful songwriters including Brett James, Jessi Alexander, Chris DeStefano, Hillary Lindsey, Marcus Hummon and Rivers Rutherford.

“Nashville is the epicenter of great songwriting, so the top songwriters in Nashville really are the best in the business,” says arranger Charlie Judge. “It is my incredibly good fortune to have the opportunity to work with these talented writers, both as a keyboardist in the studio recording their hits, and as an arranger re-casting their songs for orchestra.”

- Josh Grider is Lone Star State troubadour with nine albums under his belt and a following much longer than that Texas panhandle. He's got some new competition under his own roof now. Josh announced his wife Kristi Grider's new project to the world yesterday: 

"Kristi Grider has music for you to hear. I'm so proud of her and this project. She is a writer on all these, and the sole writer on most.