ABOUT
"The most poignant bittersweet songs you can imagine." – Americana Highways
"Its obvious that he has enough raw power to blow your chair over, but he holds back and floats it with such reserve that every emotion hangs shimmering in the air." –SHOUT Weekly
"One of the city's best troubadours." — SPIN Magazine
"If truth indeed is the color of teeth, this bard's incisors are bleeding heart red, and he couldn't sound much better." – The Reader
"Kyle Harvey sounds like the friend you should have listened to sooner. He's been right all along." –Adam Hawkins, It's True/Eros & The Eschaton
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Kyle Harvey is a singer-songwriter living in western Colorado. Having spent some time in the backseat of a van traveling town to town, his timeless lyrics and the heartfelt vulnerability of their delivery have earned him a reputation as a “songwriter's songwriter.”
During his tenure as a mainstay of the 2000’s Omaha music scene, Harvey was nominated for Best Songwriter by the Omaha Entertainment Awards and called “one of the city’s best troubadours” by Spin Magazine. He played in many bands, most notably the indie-rock band It’s True, which National Public Radio called one of the top unsigned bands to see at SXSW. More recently, Harvey was recognized by the Nashville Songwriter Association International as “One to Watch.” In 2024, Harvey co-wrote a song with Evan Westerlund titled, “I Hope You Find Your Gold,” which was selected by NSAI to appear in the Bob Kingsley Top 40 Playlist.
His 2025 album Anywhere But Here stands as a high-water mark: a collection of restless, contemplative songs that wander through memory and landscape with equal reverence. His songs are rich with the details of small-town life—loneliness, redemption, long drives through open country—and his voice, equal parts weathered and tender, carries the quiet conviction of someone who’s lived every word he sings. With a deep respect for tradition, Harvey’s work is influenced by artists like Neil Young, Guy Clark, Elliott Smith, Steve Earle, and Jackson Browne, yet remains distinctly his own—rooted in the desert canyons and rivers, as well as the midwestern gravel roads that have shaped his life. Kyle Harvey’s music offers the rare gift of stillness, inviting listeners to slow down and feel the spaces between the notes.
Solo, and in various bands, Harvey has been fortunate to share the stage with Gregory Alan Isakov, Bright Eyes, Frank Black (of The Pixies), David Rawlings, Darrel Scott, Steve Poltz, Will Hoge, Deerhunter, Daniel Johnston, The Mountain Goats, David Bazan, The Old 97’s, Spoon, Jeffrey Lewis, The Faint, Superchunk, Ben Kweller, William Elliott Whitmore, Eric Bachmann (of Crooked Fingers and Archers of Loaf), Anders Parker, Jeremy Messersmith, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Grayson Capps, Noel McKay, Simon Joyner, A.A. Bondy, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Great Lake Swimmers, Mason Jennings, Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver), Cursive, Art Alexakis (of Everclear), Charlie Parr, The River Arkansas, Willy Tea Taylor & The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, Mates of State, Dave Dondero and many more.
Harvey is the author of two collection of poetry, including There Without Being There (BlazeVOX [books], 2025) and Cosmographies (Cuneiform Press 2022). A finalist for the Colorado Book Award and winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, his work has appeared in A Dozen Nothing, American Life in Poetry, Dream Pop, Empty Mirror, Heavy Feather Review, Pilgrimage, Poems-For-All, Positive Magnets, Think Journal, The Wallace Stevens Journal and elsewhere. He is the editor of Neeli Cherkovski’s Selected Poems 1959-2022, as well as Coolidge & Cherkovski: In Conversation.
His documentary film, It’s Nice To Be With You Always: A Film About Neeli Cherkovski, premiered at the Omaha Film Festival in 2020. Kyle lives with his wife and children in Fruita, Colorado, where he manages Lithic Bookstore and designs books for Lithic Press.
