Kimm's love of music has been lifelong, but her career in music began to flourish in the late 80's. She lived just a block from the Pacific Ocean in Venice Beach but the bigger picture reads more like a road trip. From Cleveland, Ohio all the way to the Venice Boardwalk, with time spent in Nashville, Boise, Albuquerque, and San Diego, music and words still hold the key to Rogers' heart. Kimm may have been born in Cleveland, but she was destined to live by the ocean. Being landlocked was not intended for her body, her spirit, or her art. While moving to the outskirts of East Los Angeles was a move in the right direction, Rogers found herself thrown into the cultural foray of barrio life. She fell in love with tacos. She dreamed of snow. Kids whose family members were in gangs taught her how to hop trains to school. But her most profound introduction to tough and tender caring was through one of her six siblings who had cerebral palsy. "She was music all the time." By the time Rogers reached high school, the family had moved to the San Fernando Valley and it was there that she got inspired to write songs. Her guitar became an appendage and if she wasn't playing it, she was spending time listening to Led Zepplin, Joni, or Dylan. "In the throes of first loves and first kisses, I fell head first in love with words. For Rogers, the message has always been key. Her lyrics go for the emotional jugular and the music follows. Poignant, catchy, and often biographical, the songs are delivered by a voice that moves from tender to restless to wistful to take-charge. "Rogers is one of the few singers around who possesses sheer confidence and world weary vulnerability," writes respected indie critic/author, Alex Green. "In fact, it's this combination that gives her work such quiet authority and wisdom. Kimm and her songs found thier way into the eclectic beach lifestyle of Venice, California during the flux of the LA 80's music scene. It was there she developed a green thumb for her grassroots following. Her friendship with songwriter Jimmer Podrasky and his band The Rave-Ups was the spark that helped kindle Rogers' career when they began performing her song, "Train to Nowhere" during their live sets. While everything seemed like it was falling into place, the untimely death of Kimm's disabled sister followed by an unforeseen illness put things on hold. But it wasn't long before she signed a recording contract with Island Records. Her first album "The Soundtrack of My Life' was critically acclaimed and she toured opening for John Doe and David Baerwald as well as opening for Squeeze and Warren Zevon. Life was but a dream. Then came inevitable big record company merger. Although it was the dream of a lifetime to have several members of The Rave-Ups play on her second album "Two Sides" things began to feel different. Artists were being dropped left and right. Then came the Northridge earthquake in 1994. Both physically and spiritually shaken, Rogers felt it was time to rediscover herself and moved to Idaho. Rogers struggled there musically, unable to bring her tales of urban woes to a place that didn't have a slum to speak of. Her material felt out of time and out of place. She resorted to a college degree in creative non-fiction to heal her wounds and took comfort in the wide open sky, ducks, geese, eagle, deer, cows, horses........"a good place to be after earthquakes , lost record deals, and broken hearts." Music was on the back burner but not for long. As with all good road trips, you stop in some places to rest and then you hit the road again. Kimm moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico and taught the GED to people trying to get their feet. Still feeling like there was something missing from her life, she took a position at VSA North Fourth Art Center. Her mission was to develop a music program for adults with cognitive and physical disabilities. "I felt my sister everywhere. It was an amazing experience." Rogers formed the group "The Anti-Social Butterflies" with two women who were apprentice artists. "I felt like a rock star," says Rogers. "I was loved strictly for music. It wasn't the record deal or the publsher, or hipster affection or how i looked that gave me back my confidence. It was these lovely people.......people just like my sister." What was once missing was found. Music. Moving forward, Kimm's beloved job in New Mexico was no match for the pull of the tides. Since 2006 she has resided in the bucolic community of Ocean Beach in San Diego. Through social media, Rogers was reconnected with Jimmer Podrasky, Tim Jimenez, and Alison Freebairn-Smith and made a trip to Los Angeles. All three of them impacted Kimm's decision to make another album. Alison's keen intuition and great musical instincts brought Kimm's new material to the attention of guitar virtuoso, producer, multi-instrumentalist, Julian Coryell whose credits include Madeleine Peyroux, Aimee Mann, Alanis Morrissette and Leonard Cohen. By way of train and the 33 express bus, Rogers would make her way from San Diego back to Venice beach where Coryell's studio is located to record her new album literally three blocks from her old stomping grounds. "I have waited my entire life to make this one," says Kimm. The rise and fall of the moods, the passion, and mesmerizing production of "Where The Pavement Grows" could mad the day, if not the world, a better place. One of the first responders to Rogers' new album was Bill Bentley of the LA Weekly and TMR Entertainment. "Singers like Kimm Rogers come from somewhere else. They don't sound like other singers, don't write songs that pay attention to anythin that's come before and in the end, find a way to a land of their own invention. Call it inspiration or anything else, but it doesn't happen often enough, but when it does, attention should be given." Steve Hochman, veteran Los Angeles music critic, in his off the cuff response to Rogers' latest work gets the last word. "Even for those of us who have heard it for years, the conversational nature of Kimm's voice remains deceptive--as if she's just sitting at the kitchen table telling you a story. Well she is. But what a story and what a telling. Everyday stuff sure. Let's just say that the opening song, "Rain" is not about the weather and closing track, "Star Filled Canopy" is not just about the night sky, thoug they are about the wonder and majesty they embody. The music is deceptively conversational too and likely you won't realize just how deeply you're getting pulled into it until you're already there, for the folkie strummers and the barbed country rockers alike." "It's such a complicated simple thing," she sings in Valentines Day." Ain't it just.