On her new album, Oslin said, “We were looking to do some live dates, and everybody has to sell something these days, and I didn’t have anything to sell, but as we worked on some of these songs for the show, we thought it would be cool. We changed some of them and we decided to make a little record for the folks to buy when they come to the show, so it’s different. It’s a nice little record.”
She listed “Maybe We Should Learn To Tango” and “Younger Men” as her two favorite songs on the album. “I actually like them all,” she said with a sweet laugh. “They are a fun little group.”
On recording the project on Red River Entertainment, she said, “I like it. There is not so much pressure as the big guys, although that was fun beyond belief. There is no pressure and we could do it the way we want to do it, and that’s my cup of tea.”
Throughout her musical career, Oslin was named “Top Female Vocalist” by the Academy of Country Music (ACM) twice, as well as crowned “Female Vocalist of the Year” by the Country Music Association (CMA) in 1988; moreover, she won three Grammy awards, which included wins for “Best Female Country Vocal Performance” for her classic hits “Hold Me” and “80s Ladies.” “Winning all these awards were really pretty hot, and just being out there and doing your thing, in front of all these people. It was pretty wild,” she said.
Her greatest musical influences included Patti Page, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra. “I loved all the crooners,” she said. Her alternate career choice would have been a “biologist.” “I like anthropology and the study of people and see what we looked like back then,” she said.
Oslin had nothing but kind remarks for the late Lynn Anderson. “I was sorry to hear about Ms. Lynn. I feel a kinship, and we shall miss her,” she said.
For her fans, she concluded, “I drop in on my website and I have fun on that sometimes. We get into it now and then. Have a very nice summer and stay cool.”
To learn more about K.T. Oslin and her new music, check out her official website.
