Reviews for Kim Beggs

Needless to say, Yukon singer-songwriter Kim Beggs handsomely delivers on the promise of her first two critically acclaimed albums, Streetcar Heart and Wanderer's Paean, with this debut Black hen project.

Kim Beggs has the soft gentle voice of a dreamy-eyed teenage girl, the heart and soul of a young woman who's discovering the world is not as romantic novels portray it, and the experience of a world-weary adult who understands the pains and crushing disappointments of life's dramas all too well.

Canadian country singer/songwriter Kim Beggs may hail from north of the U.S.-Canada border, but she maintains a familiar rural, working-class persona on her third album, Blue Bones. In her breathy, childlike voice, she recounts tales of lost souls, frequently drenched in alcohol, spending their time in bars when they aren't speeding down the road.

hough the subjects are familiar; love, loss, more love, more loss and the freedom found in and from both, occupy the spaces in Kim Beggs tunes, her voice separates the tracks. Kim’s vocals showcase an ability to infuse each work with a vulnerable sincerity.

Kim Beggs Sheds Light on Joint Eastern Canada Tour with Chris Jagger
8/4/2010 By Rachel Sanders

Exciting touring times are on the horizon for Whitehorse, YT singer-songwriter Kim Beggs. With her recently released third album, the rustic and rootsy Blue Bones, Beggs has scheduled several shows that are bound to attract attention.

Kim Beggs is blue right down to her bones, but the Whitehorse, YT singer-songwriter doesn't let it get her down. On her third release, Black Hen Music's Blue Bones, Beggs wears more of her melancholy heart on her sleeve than ever before.

Kim Beggs has the soft gentle voice of a dreamy-eyed teenage girl, the heart and soul of a young woman who's discovering the world is not as romantic novels portray it, and the experience of a world-weary adult who understands the pains and crushing disappointments of life's dramas all too well.

Kim Beggs’s sturdy, trusting, girl-woman voice is perfect for this song about a kind of innocence that never dies. It’s a love song that’s also about a northerner (Beggs lives in the Yukon) getting bruised in the south before returning to the heart’s true sheltering harbour.

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There are several genres of music, which deter the so-called. music lovers, regardless of the quality of the material presented. Until now I thought that this kind of music is country, which effectively reject me. Tolerance treated them as an addition to the album, but not its substance. This time I got the album, almost entirely maintained in this climate.

If Kim Beggs was making music when Joni Mitchell and Neil Young were getting their starts, this Yukon-based singer would be huge. Instead she’s part of an underappreciated group of folk musicians.

Award winning Canadian folkie is about as far from Joni Mitchell as you can get so don’t look for those comparisons. Purely a down home, back porch singer/songwriter with a vulnerability that betrays her background as a laborer who took the long way around to music.

Kim Beggs' Blue Bones (Black Hen Music) is roots rock with country/folk harmonics. Fine musicianship with vocals that fit perfectly. Kim wrote 9 of the 13 tracks and includes a fantastic cover of Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight". Award winning singer-songwriter, Kim Beggs, again captures the rustiic charm of the Canadian north (Yukon).

Like many people, I have had a lifelong fascination with the Yukon. Growing up in Canada, my childhood hours were often spent reading Farley Mowatt’s dramatic tales of stoic Inuits and lonely trappers who endured the bitter hardships of life in the far north.

Kim Beggs is the real deal. With an instantly recognizable voice that blends sweetness and grit, the Yukon-based singer/songwriter (and sometimes carpenter) tells stories of love, blues, bones and the North on her third album and first for the Black Hen label.

Here’s a soulful and inviting collection of (mostly) self-penned tunes from Yukon singer-songwriter, Kim Beggs. As with most releases on Black Hen, Steve Dawson both produces and plays on Blue Bones, and brings a relaxed confidence to Beggs’ homespun songs. The end-result is a combination of top-notch musicianship and gentle humility that proves very winning!

I reviewed Kim Beggs's self-released Wanderer's Paean in this space on 5 May 2008. Paean -- its title a play on "pain" -- was an often harrowing account, with strong autobiographical elements, of life on the margins in Canada's northern regions. Beggs lives in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, which to the rest of us, at least those of us who don't live there, may seem an unimaginably remote outpost.

Based in Whitehorse, Kim Beggs has lived across our country and her music captures the influences that have contributed to her development as a singer and writer.

So you're an aspiring singer-songwriter living in rural Northern Ontario, and you want to try your hand at the music business. Do you strike out for a big Canadian town, such as Toronto or Montreal? Do you take it a step further and cross the border to try and make a dent in the Los Angeles or Nashville music scenes? If you are Kim Beggs, you do neither.

This is the third album release for Whitehorse's Kim Beggs and her first for the Vancouver Black Hen. Produced by the label's Steve Dawson and featuring many an acoustic music star, this is rootsy, homegrown stuff. There's some fine yodelling on "Can't Drive Slow Yodel" and "Longest Dream" is nicely stark. She came late to making music and her writing is refreshingly unconventional. B

It was only a matter of time before Yukon singer/songwriter Kim Beggs connected with Vancouver wunderkind producer Steve Dawson.

The result is Blue Bones, and what a happy meeting it is.

Canadian folk/country singer/songwriter Beggs' lovely voice, self-harmonies and acoustic guitar are paired with Steve Dawson's arresting National steel, Weissenborn, and electric slide. At her best - as she is here- Beggs reminds me of one of Joni Mitchell and Iris DeMent. Dawson (who also produced the album) is simply awesome.