Candace Asher

Candace Asher | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Crazy Wisdom Music
• ASIN: B00004YN3Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #859,402 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Every Time Your Heart Breaks

2. A Face in the Crowd

3. That Old Car

4. I’m Looking Forward

5. At the Hands of a Man

6. One Tender Tear

7. More Than Just a Vase

8. Thankless Children

9. If I Met You Now

10. Something in Me

11. Slow Dancing

Editorial Reviews

Richie Havens, Recording Artist/Songwriter

"Watch out for her! I have watched Candace grow into an incredibly dedicated and talented singer/songwriter!"

Product Description

Candace Asher’s self-titled debut CD contains eleven original songs written or co-written by Candace. Stylistically, Candace walks the line between Americana and contemporary country. In each song, the quality of Candace’s voice is equally matched by the music and lyrics she writes.

Candace’s belief that life is a spiritual journey about love and healing comes across with a sense of the soul that is all too rare. As her voice twists and turns, listening to her CD is like flipping through the pages of a photo album. Refreshingly, Candace shares her joys and sorrows of days gone by with lyrical focus, musical variance, vocal purity and an appealing optimism.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful CD - A Talented Performer, September 12, 2000

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DENNIS B MARTIN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candace Asher (Audio CD)

I first heard and saw Candace Asher sing some short clips as part of a London-based TV documentary, "Women in Country Music/Naked Nashville". She was included in a segment with Nashville artists Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea and Suzy Boguss. Candace was featured as an up and coming writer and singer of significance. Her voice and songs immediately caught my ear and I bought her CD as soon as it was commercially available over a year ago.

Candace can hold her own with any of the major talents in Nashville as both a singer and writer. She has her own wonderful style and sound that shows none of the "cookie-cutter" approach to country music that crowds the radio these days. Her performances stir a variety of emotions, she sings from the heart, and her lyrics hit me every time I listen to the CD. I can enjoy her music and take away an uplifting message or new meaning every time I listen. Even after more than a year, this is one of a few CDs that I always have with me wherever I go. I have become an unabashed big fan of Candace.

If I had to pick my favorite cuts (a difficult choice to make), my two favorites are probably "Something in Me" and "One Tender Tear". Both tell wonderful stories with important messages. In "Something in Me" she speaks to me about trusting that inner voice that we too often are not able to hear clearly but more often than not would lead us where we want to go - it's important to reach out and go for our dreams. "One Tender Tear" (my personal favorite for both the tune and the lyrics) tells me that everyone deserves to find the treasure of a true love.

This CD contains a variety of songs that have a nice flow to them and thus makes it a wonderful collection to listen to over and over. Candace is the real deal and this CD was a must for my collection. You also do not necessarily have to be a fan of country music to enjoy this CD - you just have to appreciate and enjoy good music. Way to go Candace!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who needs boundaries?, October 27, 2000

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Cletis Carr (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candace Asher (Audio CD)

Genre-hopping seems to to have become something of a national pastime of late. Rather than search for the words to describe what one is hearing, it's often easier to simply put it into a prelabeled box. Unfortunately, a lot of great music slips through the cracks that way.

Candace Asher's debut is one of those gems that you may miss if you blink. That's because the 11 (largely self-composed) songs aren't so heavily genre-laden as much as they are a recipe: a little blues here, a sprinkle of jazz there, a spoonful of folk, add some classic rock & roll - there are a lot of elements that make up this engaging songwriter. She's in a class of her own, and walks a fine tightrope amongst many of her contemporaries.

As another reviewer has mentioned, I too first saw Candace on the Women In Country/Naked Nashville doco while living overseas. She frequently performs around Nashville in-between tours, and it's great to see an artist of her calibre tough it out in a town notorious for ignoring individuality and tenacity.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Candace Asher - A Pace-Maker for the Country Heart, September 13, 2000

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Ken E. Richardson (Zanesville, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candace Asher (Audio CD)

I have a handful of CDs that travel with me like a pace-maker. The Candace Asher CD is one of those. It has a sense of the soul that is all too rare. Take this to the bank - She's gold.

Candace Asher probably never did well with coloring books or paint-by-number canvases. True artists cannot be confined or limited. They are compelled to color outside the lines. Candace Asher is that kind of person.

It is rare that I am so impressed with an artist's entire CD. There are usually one or two really hot tunes, several mediocre, and a few that detract from the others. Asher's collection goes from one great song to another. With each song I get the feeling, "I can identify with that...I know that emotion."

Throughout the CD, the listener is taken on an incredible journey with the heart. One is reconnected with the fires that once kindled in the passion for living, a passion that we all too soon abandon in favor of existence.

Remembering a time when couples would pick a song to call their own, I have rediscovered that magic moment in time in Candace Asher's music. Every one of her selections touches a nerve, ...a heartstring. It's so easy to get attached to her beautiful voice, lyrics and music, as she melds contemporary country and pop.

The touching words of "That Old Car" softens the toughest of hearts as it describes an old car in the drive, and how it symbolizes freedom. That Old Car, if only it would start, would take a young woman far from her troubles and heartache. It is but one of 11 beautiful stories. Others, such as "More Than Just a Vase," A Face in the Crowd" and "Every Time Your Heart Breaks" are songs you want to hear again and again.

As I said earlier, "Candace Asher's CD travels with me like a pace-maker." Her music reminds me that my heart still beats beneath it's callousness. It takes some pretty powerful music for me to make that statement. Candace Asher IS "powerful music."