Kristy Kruger September 25, 2009

Songwriter and artist Kristy Kruger has musical tastes that travel easily from Billie Holiday to Johnny Cash. The Dallas Morning News says she has grown into one of the most eclectic singers in the area, citing her as a "female Tom Waits." Krüger also won the 2006 Dallas Observer Music Award from Dallas' leading entertainment weekly for Best Female Vocalist. She received a 2008 and 2009 nomination for the award as well.

Krüger is also an engaging storyteller and essayist. She has contributed to Public Radio International's This American Life and even made a fan out of the show's host Ira Glass. In addition to these efforts, Krüger has released four full-length albums. Her latest, Songs From a Dead Man's Couch, is a meeting of her Texas Americana roots and her love of New Orleans-style jazz. Her album won the 2007 Independent Music Award for Best Americana Album of the Year, sponsored by Borders Books and Music and the Musicians Atlas. Dead Man's Couch was also named one of the "TOP DIY Releases of 2007" by Performing Songwriter Magazine. She plays guitar, banjo, piano, mandolin, and the pedal steel. She is currently working on her fifth album which she recorded in New Orleans, using many local New Orleans musicians with a dixieland line-up - tuba, trumpet, trombone and clarinet.
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