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Sarah Harmer - You Were Here Audio CD

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Sarah Harmer Band: Sarah Harmer
Title: You Were Here
Rating:
Release Date: 2000-08-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Around This Corner 2: Basement Apt 3: Hideout 4: Capsized 5: Lodestar 6: Weakened State 7: Don't Get Your Back Up 8: Open Windows 9: Uniform Grey 10: Coffee Stain 11: You Were Here 12: Everytime

Another Canadian Gem
Sarah Harmer has never been afraid to explore different types of music or instrumentation from album to album or even song to song. This is a great CD from a gifted Canadian vocalist and Musician. . . that is evident on this well-crafted CD.

The lead off song "Around this Corner" is my favorite track on the CD. It will having you singing along after just a play or two. What other pop song can you think of off the top of your head that has a clarinet solo in it?

Other highlights include "Basemant Apartment," "Uniform Gray" and Coffee Stain. " This is a wonderfull listen from start to finish crafted by a great artist. Listen to all of her CD's and see for yourself the versatility that she has. Even better, if you have the chance. . . catch her live show! You will not be sorry you spent the money on the ticket.


Fantastic.
While there are some very good songs on "All of Our Names", for me, this is far and away the more complete work. I recently picked up this album and loved it so much that I bought her newer album too.

If anyone out there enjoyed Pater Malick's collaborative album "Chance & Circumstance" this work has a similar variety of songs and styles from the stand-out hit "Basement Apartment" to the initially quirky but ultimately superb "Lodestar" - a song that must be listened to the whole way through.

I'm a picky soul and there aren't too many albums that have made it 'uncut' onto my iPod, this is one.


Kingston's Queen
Sarah Harmer is another addition to the growing list of artists to come out of Kingston, Ontario (see. Tragically Hip, Bryan Adams, Dan Akroyd, Zal Yanofsky). The frontwoman for the local band Weeping Tile remakes their hit "Basement Apartment" for this CD. The current version was a major hit in Canada (Juno award) and wound up on several progressive and college stations playlists in the US. While sometimes lyrically somber, Harmer shows her versitilaty in offering many different musical styles. Highlights include "Lodestar". . which is a smooth acoustic number (guitar and acoustic bass) that conjures up images of floating on a moonlit night sipping a Creemore on Lake Ontario. Those who were lucky enough to pick up her first CD "Songs for Clem" will no doubt be impressed at her development on her sophmore effort.


One of the BEST CDs.
I picked up the CD and just decided to buy it. I was walking through a local CD store a few years ago and saw Sarah Harmer's face looking at me. I haven't regreted it for one second. I LOVE this CD. Her voice is beautiful. Her songs are catchy. She has since become one of my favorite artists. I wish she had many more CDs.


a more earthy Sarah McLaughlin
Her authenticity and musical sensibility is evident throughout this fine CD. Sarah Harmer is more down-to-earth, and some would say, less self-centered, than fellow Cannuck femme singer Sarah McLaughlin. The song-writing is also quite good.

I try to limit 5-star ratings to excellent discs (apparently unlike so many gushing fans of musicians on Amazon), but this one comes close. . . a refreshing antedote to cotton-candy MTV/MuchMusic fluff.
Cheers.


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