Kim likes to have her way with words. She delivers them with a voice of heart-rending range, jazzy lure and troubadour candor.
Gulf Coast born and West Texas raised, Kim writes songs that brim with emotion and sense of place. She writes anthems to beauty and lamentations for things lost; she sings about our universal scrapes, triumphs, and desires.
Though Kim performs intermittently, “the wait is well worth it” said the late American music journalist Margaret Moser, of Kim’s performance interludes. “If you can catch her live, you should” says songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey.
Kim is working on a collection of songs she's titled “Pleasure of My Yearning”, promising further meditations on themes of risk, natural wonders, and explorations of the heart.
“Miller takes listeners on a tantalizing journey” — Tom Buckley, Editor of Texas Music magazine
PLEASURE OF MY YEARNING
I’m hummin’ down the highway
West with the night
On a poet’s mission
A search and recovery
Expedition
The open road
Is my prescription
Far-flung territory
Suits a soul
In this condition
How many times this leap of faith
To keep the fire in my belly burning
How much loneliness does it take
For the pleasure of my yearning
Sunrise in the Chisos
Welcomes me back
Drawn by wonder
To this land of snakes
And switchbacks
Standin' on a canyon rim
At the edge of a big-sky line
I close my eyes
Fill my lungs
And sing for a sign
How many times this leap of faith
To keep the fire in my belly burning
How much loneliness does it take
For the pleasure of my yearning
Feel the heartbeat in these the rocks
Of my pilgrim pit-stop
Hummin’ with power
Mountains that move you
Ready or not
The sky has further to fall here
Dreams more room to land
I come for the beauty
I come for the view
I come to understand
How many times this leap of faith
To keep the fire in my belly burning
How much loneliness does it take
For the pleasure of my yearning
©ASCAP/SeaRobin Songs/Kim Miller 2018