UPDATED MARCH, 2007
Kristy performs in all 50 states, in remembrance
of her brother, Liet. Col. Eric John Kruger.
After losing her brother in Iraq this past November,
Kristy has decided to spend the next year of her life
performing in remembrance of him in all 50 states. "Since
he died in the name of this country, I'd like the country
to know his name. And I'd like to see America, the whole
thing. I'd like to see what he died for." [Read
Press Release]
Here are some links to news articles and videos
covering the 50-state memorial tour in honor
of my brother, Lt. Col. Eric Kruger, if you're curious.
Click the links below for the story or video from that
publication.
NBC,
KXAN News, Austin, TX, Video
NBC,
KXAN News Article, Austin, TX
NBC,
KUSA News, Colorado Springs, CO
FOX,
KXRM News, Colorado Springs, CO
CBS, KKTV
News, Colorado Springs, CO
ABC,
KRDO News, Colorado Springs, CO
The
Gazette newspaper, Colorado Springs, CO
FOX
11 Tucson Arizona News Article
FOX
11 Tucson Arizona News Video:
KVOA,
NBC, Tucson, Arizona
The
Tucson Weekly
(Clarification, I meant my brother's coffin was wrapped
in the American flag...not me!)
Dallas
Morning News SXSW Video:
NPR, KUT,
Austin Public Radio piece:
NPR,
KUNM, New Mexico Public Radio piece:
Kristy featured on CBS News for Memorial Tribute.
Click here
to watch video.
Kristy featured in the Dallas Observer.
Memorial tribute for her brother LTC Eric Kruger, killed
in Iraq.
Click here
to read the article.
Out of thousands of entries internationally,
Kristy wins the 2007 Independent Music Award sponsored
by Borders Books and Music for Americana Album of the
Year for Songs From a Dead Man's Couch!
Click here
to read the article.
Kristy's album Songs From a Dead Man's Couch
chosen as Dallas Morning News favorite top 10
releases of 2006.
Click here
to read more.
Kristy's album Songs From a Dead Man's Couch
was chosen as a top DIY release in Performing Songwriter
Magazine.
Click
here for the direct link to the review and a free
download of "Little Pollyanna"
Check out the latest review of "Songs From
a Dead Man's Couch" in Texas Music Magazine.
Texas Music Magazine
is a quarterly magazine, and a wonderful resource for
Texas music. Since it only comes out four times a year,
it's an honor to have them run a review of a self-released
album.
When Kristy Krüger coos, "I don't wanna see
no sunshine," on her song "Little Polyanna,"
you believe it — even when she whips out the kazoo.
With her fourth album, the dark, weird and wonderful Songs
From a Dead Man's Couch, the Dallas singer-songwriter
(who recently relocated to her old college town of Los
Angeles) has crafted the perfect soundtrack for your next
absinthe and opium binge — full of gloomy ruminations
but lit up with melodic beauty like a windowless room
full of flickering candles. Krüger's narcotic voice
and gothic sensibilities prove a perfect fit for her cover
of Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again,"
but it's her own songs that really linger and haunt, from
the sly but catchy opener, "Gold Rush," to a
handful of beautiful dirges that could have really redeemed
Lucinda Williams' otherwise forgettable last album. Not
since Tom Petty one-upped Roger McGuinn with "American
Girl" has a student trumped the master as decisively
as Krüger does Williams on "Talk Radio."
"I'm a real keeper if you didn't know," she
sings on "Blackhole," and you better believe
that, too. — RICHARD SKANSE
Kristy featured on NPR's music program, "All
Songs Considered."
Kristy's song "Gold Rush" is featured on NPR's
music program "All Songs Considered," the musical
cyber-sister of "All Things Considered."
Click
HERE to visit the "All Songs
Considered" web site to hear Kristy talk about the
meaning behind the song.
Kristy featured on two episodes
of PRI's critically acclaimed radio documentary program,
"This American Life."
Click HERE
to hear Kristy's contributions in the episodes "Image
Makers" and "A Little Bit of Knowledge."
Kristy's new album gets airplay
on NPR's renowned syndicated radio show "World Cafe."
This show is considered a tastemaker in
the world of alternative radio and it's quite an honor
to make their playlist.
Click HERE
to read what music director Bruce Warren has to say about
Kristy's new album.
Kristy appears in long-time radio producer Paul Ingle's
piece called "Everything Was Right," a two-hour
radio documentary about the Beatle's album, "Revolver,"
marking the 40th anniversary of its release.
Paul interviewed many songwriters and writers about their
discovery of this classic, among them grammy-winner Shawn
Colvin, Kristy, Mark Lewisohn, author of the famous book
The Beatles Recording Sessions, and many others.
She's in the beginning, talking about her favorite song
on the album, "I'm Only Sleeping."
