Candace Asher CD

"Watch our for her! I have watched Candace grow into an incredibly dedicated and talented singer/songwriter!" Richie Havens, recording artist/songwriter"Love can pick the pieces up, every time your heart breaks." "There's something I'm trying to reach, I once thought it was something in you, but it's something in me." These lyrics are sung straight from the heart on Candace Asher's self-titled CD. Candace brings a fresh approach to contemporary country-pop artistry. "My songwriting partners and I strive for lyrics that are both entertaining and meaningful. I like to sing songs with messages that are close to my heart". Musically, Candace combines a range of influences. The resulting sound on Asher's first disc is uplifting and refreshing; accessible, yet unique. Candace is the kind of artist who listens to her muse."I think life is a spiritual journey about love and healing. I strive for my work to reflect that." Buzz McClain of the Washington Post concurs: "Candace brings to her music the authenticity lacking in most -- heck-- all of today's country-pop. She sings from somewhere most of us have covered over to keep from feeling."Raised in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, Candace began her career in the late 1980's in New York City. While working the club circuit, two of her songs earned airplay on New York (folk and country) radio stations WBAB and WYNY. Shortly before moving to Nashville in the mid 1990's, Candace had a production deal with New York's Planet Studio. "After listening to the producers criticize my country inflections, I declined their offer to resign me. Something in me knew Nashville was my next stop." Since Candace has been in Nashville, she's become a regular at the world famous Bluebird Cafe, she has performed in Nashville's Tin Pan South Songwriting Festival, the NeA Extravaganza, and in benefits and fundraisers for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Rape and Sexual Abuse Center of Tennessee. Candace is currently serving her second term as a board member alternate on the Songwriter's Guild of America's Steering Committee. She is also a charter member of the Americana Music Association.Along with artists Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea, Suzy Boguss, and Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Candace was featured in a London-based documentary, "Women in Country Music/Naked Nashville", which continues to be broadcast all over the world. Her inclusion in this BBC/Southbank program, according to the producers, was to identify Candace as an up and coming writer and singer of significance.Most recently Candace is enjoying her broad global appeal as evidenced by her debut CD's domestic and international radio airplay. Spring of 2000 her song That Old Car was the CD's first cut to open doors for Asher at US radio. Serviced to 100 stations, Asher's That Old Car was chosen off her CDas the opening track for the AFIM's (Association for Independent Music) first ever Americana compilation. "That Old Car is the one cut that stood out on the AFIM Americana sampler." - Doug Rogers, WJMQ, Wisconsin Candace's CD's visibility on the internet continues to introduce her work to journalists and DJ's in search of new independent releases. In recent months Asher's CD has been receiving substantial airplay in Europe. In November her CD was favorably reviewed in Belgium's popular Dag Allemaal magazine. As 2000 wraps up, Asher's CD has been voted into the #6 spot for the year's top 20 CD's on the prestigious Holland program The Real Roots Café. Candace is extremely proud to share this top 20 status along with a number of artists whose careers she's long admired: Emmy Lou Harris, Allison Moorer, Steve Earle and Neil Young, to name a few.The track "A Face in the Crowd" taken from Asher's CD is included on the 2001 International Country Music Association's (ICMA) first-ever country compilation CD. It will be promoted throughout the spring of 2001 to over 500 radio stations internationally.Asher is currently planning t