Kathryn helped provide musical support to Carol during the CD project and Kathryn's talent caught the ear of Louie Swift of Swift Music Group, the producer, who asked who was on the piano. Swift asked for a demo CD from Mickey. Swift's musical resume includes working with a litany of well-known entertainers and their record companies, including Alabama, Conway Twitty, The Ink Spots, George Jones, John Berry, Jim Stafford, Waylon Jennings, Barbara Fairchild, The Rondells, The Lettermen. He also worked on two of Elvis Presley's albums and wrote the back liners for two of them.

Kathryn Mickey is featured on the cover of her new CD, cut this year.

Swift contacted Mickey and offered to produce her music, saying she was producing a new sound that no one is doing in Nashville at the moment. Mickey said she and Ken mulled the project over extensively, before taking their entire family to Nashville to cut the music in June of this year. The Mickeys are the parents of two boys.

"It's very exciting for us. I think it's going to hit it, I really do," Kathryn said of her project. She said her music style is closest to Lori Line, who is considered one of the top female pianists in the country.

Kathryn is at the piano in the project, but got lots of musical support in the background from Nashville veterans. Doug Carter was on the keyboard and Paul Arntz was on the base. Both have played with Lee Greenwood. Jim Pace is on the drums and Ron Treat is the engineer.

Kathryn said her CD has already been played on TV twice and will air on radio stations in the South, where gospel music is more popular.
Her music is available at www.kathrynmickey.com.

Ken Mickey was not exactly a stranger to Nashville. He and several people from Thompson Garage Doors attended the International Door Association show there in 2005.

"The irony was that we stayed in the same hotel, just about six blocks from Swift Music Group. We had no idea how close we were during IDA," Ken said.

	Ken Mickey and his wife Kathryn pose with their two boys in front of her father's racecar recently at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Mickeys are a family for all seasons, with Kathryn recently cutting a CD in Nashville.

Born in San Jose, CA., Kathryn started taking piano lessons at the age of eight. She received a scholarship from the University of Nevada, Reno and graduated from UNR with a degree in music. She currently teaches music at a private school in Reno to grades K-12 and has developed a music program there.

The Mickeys are a unique family, even without the recent addition of a musical CD. Ken and his father-in-law Mike Reyman regularly are part of a race team that holds the world speed record for a roadster. They race at least a couple of times a year at Bonneville Speedway, located near the Utah-Nevada border.

Kathryn and the two boys were recently part of a group that accompanied Ken and her father to the track for the latest attempt at a new world record in September of this year.