Songs for Clem
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Songs for Clem is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter by Sarah Harmer, credited to Harmer and Jason Euringer, and released in 1999.
HistoryEdit
The album was never intended by Harmer for widespread release, but as a 1998 Christmas gift for her father, Clem Harmer. It features Harmer's personal, home-recorded renditions of several of her father's favourite pop and country standards.<ref name="AM" /> Upon hearing the recording, Harmer's friends and family convinced her to release it independently. She did so in 1999; following her commercial breakthrough in 2000 with You Were Here, the album was re-released under Harmer's new major label distribution deal with Universal Music Canada.<ref name="AM" />
Clem Harmer subsequently appeared on Sarah's 2005 album I'm A Mountain, contributing backing vocals to two songs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ReceptionEdit
Template:Album ratings Allmusic music critic Johnny Lofthus wrote the album feels "lovingly handmade, with cover art right out of a child's Father's Day art project and an immediate, field-type recording quality that features accompaniment from crickets and a passing rainstorm. This isn't to say it's lo-fi; on the contrary, it's crystal clear." and that "... it's a true sentimental journey for people inspired by their parents to love music."<ref name="AM" />
Track listingEdit
- "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe) – 2:07
- "Tennessee Waltz" (Redd Stewart, Pee Wee King) – 2:52
- "Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:53
- "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:00
- "Oh Bury Me Not" (Traditional) – 1:25
- "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" (Traditional) – 3:22
- "Shine on Harvest Moon" (Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes) – 2:13
- "Trouble in the Fields" (Nanci Griffith, Rick West) – 4:02
- "Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams) – 2:32
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin) – 3:45
- "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Ben Homer, Bud Green) – 2:44
- "O, My Beloved Father" (Giacomo Puccini, Giovacchino Forzano) – 2:07
PersonnelEdit
- Sarah Harmer – vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
- Jason Euringer – bass, guitar, background vocals, slides
- Spencer Evans – clarinet, piano, background vocals
- Benji Perosin – trumpet
ProductionEdit
- Produced by Sarah Harmer
- Mastered by Jan Turney and Graeme McCann
- Engineered and mixed by Robin Aube, assisted by Tom Lawless<ref name=MapleMusic>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Photography by Kelsey Finlayson