Walking Medicine

Walking Medicine is the musical vision of Jenny Kimmel, a Rockingham County, NC singer/songwriter who inhabits a kaleidoscope of roles: artist, poet, permaculturist. Kimmel’s songs in Walking Medicine reflect her varied, overlapping perspectives in music that shimmers in in-betweens. Her voice and lyrics blur genre boundaries, evoking Americana, folk, and roots music, echoing elements of old-time alongside influences from philosophy, art, and activism across movements and generations. The sum is visceral. Raw. Sweet.
Recorded over five days in Flybird Studio, Kimmel and her players, including her sister and brother-in-law Ivy and David Sheppard of The South Carolina Broadcasters, Mason Via of Old Crow Medicine Show, and Waverly Leonard of The Carolina Songbirds, captured Kimmel’s original songs in a wash of masterful picking and warm harmonies.
Mixed and mastered by Jeff Fuller (Nashville, TN), the resulting collection is unvarnished and tender. Kimmel’s lyrics explore imagery and themes informed by hard-won rural sensibilities. Reverberations of rural folk and old-time ring powerfully alongside modern liberal views, at once communal, reflective and healing.
The name Walking Medicine grew from a poem of Kimmel’s, a reminder to any who listen that each of us carries something specific, something connective, that is an answer to others’ needs. Not planted in the ground but moving, each of us is walking medicine simply by being who and what we are.