Her Country: Kim Richey's Nashville fusion
Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, 23 August 1999
THERE SEEM TO BE four kinds of country music these days. There's the pop stuff, a mix of up-tempo numbers and sugary ballads plied by mainstream mega-sellers like Brooks & Dunn and Shania Twain. That's what gets played on commercial radio.
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