Kristy Lee's 'The Olive Tree,' recorded mostly in a north Alabama studio, didn't come easy.
South Alabama singer-songwriter Kristy Lee wasn't sure what kind of response her album "The Olive Tree," was going to get. It spent several days atop the iTunes blues album chart in August.Alabama songwriter Kristy Lee has been as surprised as anyone to see her newly released album, “The Olive Tree,” sitting at No. 1 on the blues album chart at iTunes, over the likes of Etta James and Joe Bonamassa.
South Alabama singer-songwriter Kristy Lee wasn't sure what kind of response her album "The Olive Tree," was going to get. It spent several days atop the iTunes blues album chart in August.As she spoke by phone from her home in south Alabama, she apologized for a little bit of background noise. Her band would be rehearsing later in the evening, she said, and she was chopping ingredients for a pot of collard greens she was about to cook for her musicians.
“In 2012 I was having some issues and just days before leaving for my first European tour I got some test results that were extremely scary,” Lee said. “I got a phone call from my doctor and she was like, ‘Kristy, it looks like there’s a tumor in your spinal cord.’ I was like, ‘What?’” “I lit a candle in Rome, asked time to go easy on me, reminisced, was being polite, felt alone, karma came around, I held onto hope, processed the progress, found my voice and set it free.”“I know nothing about Catholicism, so I didn’t really understand the flow of things,” she said. So she asked if it was OK, and when she was assured that it was, she “picked out the picture that was calling to me the most” to place her candle.
That was tough, because Lee had built some momentum. She had always managed to strike her own path, playing cities and venues outside the usual local and regional circuit. She has toured as an opener for G. Love and for The Indigo Girls, opening for the latter at Mobile’s Saenger Theatre and Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. She and her longtime partner Missy Sebastian had also been instrumental in presenting Pensacola Unleashed, an annual LGBTQ+ festival that ran from 2003 until 2023.
“It was definitely a blessing to find that studio. And the musicians that were available endlessly,” she said. “They were available endlessly to me through those times. And it was really tender times for me. That kind of stuff doesn’t happen every day.” “Every time I write a song I’m just thankful,” she said. “I’m not the kind of person who can just sit down and say, ‘Today I’ll write this song.’”
“If anything I would say I’m a more grateful person,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot throughout the process, those starts and stops. I’ve learned a lot about myself and I’ve learned a lot about those around me and the support I’ve had. Definitely I wouldn’t be well now if I hadn’t had the support that I’ve had.”
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