“I’ve Always Been A Songwriter:” Kiki Cavazos’s True Blue Heartbroken Ramblin’ Songs

In an early video released on Western AF’s YouTube, Kiki Cavazos sits by the Flathead River in Montana strumming her guitar at sunset. Fire crackles in the background as Cavazos sings low and earnest, facing the river more than the camera, “Heart slain, hard rain and I’m walkin’ home / Five blocks, it ain’t far, but always long / It’s the end of the song, you never sang along.” Her song “Cold Love” is small scale heartbreak, simple and true: “A cold love ain’t no love at all / Now it’s too hard to call.”