Kim Ware and the Good Graces

Drummer-turned-songwriter Kim Ware started the Good Graces on a whim in 2006, after purchasing a beat up, old acoustic guitar she named Buzzy at the Lakewood Antiques Market in Atlanta. The songs quickly poured out of her, melodic stories of heartache and hope, set to three chords that she often didn’t know the names of. Since then, Kim and tGG have toured the east coast multiple times; paid musical visits to Texas, over to California, through the Midwest; and showcased at such festivals as 30A, NXNE, and LEAF, where Kim was a finalist and placed in the top three at the NewSong Singer-Songwriter Competition in 2019. She’s been praised as a “songwriter’s songwriter” as well as “an Atlanta treasure” by local musicians and press alike, with songs that blend the gritty realness of 90s-era alternative rock with the straightforward charm of country and folk.

Equally at home in listening rooms and dive bars, theaters and front porches, and on bills ranging from singer-songwriter to indie-rock, Kim and the band have shared stages with such renowned artists as Indigo Girls, Sierra Ferrell, The Love Language, Elizabeth and the Catapult, Granville Automatic, The Old Ceremony, and many others.

Kim is currently working on recording her 6th full-length album, with engineer/producer Jerry Kee (Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Kingsbury Manx, Dex Romweber, Shark Quest), of Duck-Kee Studios in Mebane, NC.