KAITLYN KILIAN - Golden Picture Frames - Independent Release

Following last year’s release of “Hey Highway” and successful tour dates with Wyatt Flores, Oklahoma native Kaitlyn Kilian built the steps of her path with gifted storytelling, the emotionally gripping charge of her vocal abilities, and an overall style that intriguingly pitted the lines of Americana and classic country against a folk infused aura.

She now delivers “Golden Picture Frames.”

Co-written by Kaitlyn with Mo Pitney and his sister Holly McCubbin, the ultra-personal song places the angelic warmth of Kilian’s voice atop the soft strum of acoustic guitar as she serenades her grandparents love story, grabbing nostalgia through the idea of looking back from today’s perspective to remember who you are and where you come from.

Taking us straight to Medford, Oklahoma where the two first met, she paints their once upon a time love story with how just that simple hello turned into him asking for her hand in marriage, them having 12 kids, and herself being the youngest of 40 grandkids; the one who now holds the legacy of carrying their family story into generation next.

From a place of here and now with a footing on looking back, she metaphorically transports us to grandma’s little white house through the memories that live on in the faces of the photographs that once lined those walls:

“There’s still a white house at the end of seven south

Where a whole lotta life got lived

And I remember Christmas on the corduroy couch

Being all filled up with kids

All the faces in the photographs, stories hanging up in the hallways

Memories don’t fade away

I take em with me in my heart today

In golden picture frames”

Continuing to walk that balancing perspective throughout the remainder of the song, Kilian relays how every picture invokes a memory of the Sunday dinners, the random get togethers, the birthday celebrations, and the weddings, while maturely reaching the understand that although the house itself holds plenty of family history within its walls, those memories will always live on in her heart whenever she closes her eyes.

“Golden Picture Frames” may be a personal notation for Kaitlyn Kilian, but it’s crafted in such a skillful way that it resonates with a way of life that a lot of us can still remember and are yearning for today. We all experience growing up and life inevitably changing, but with this beautifully crafted reminder, we’re encouraged to revisit those old photographs that tell the story of our life, and if for only a moment, revisit simpler times through the stories that can only be told through black and white.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)