QUOTES Angela Kaset - Sanctuary (Winter Harvest Records) "At last, after penning tunes for numerous country artists, Angela Kaset has wrapped her own warm evocative voice around an impressive collection of material. With the album, Sanctuary, Kaset presents sophisticated songs that venture far beyond the boundaries". - LA Times Syndicate "Angela always makes sure the song is the star, but they never shine so brightly as when she sings them herself'. - Don Schlitz (writer of 30 #1 songs) "The 11 songs on Sanctuary, are torchy, sultry, haunting -for most, she (Kaset) sounds as if she is draped across a piano bar and surrounded by smoke... Nothing sugary though -these are heart wrenching masterpieces about tortured souls, strong women in and out of love". - Sunday Tribune Review "Angela Kaset is a big voiced, sultry vocalist who accompanies herself on piano. She wrote or co-wrote all 11 cuts here. Kaset is a prime example of rapidly expanding Nashville." - BiIIboard "After club performances, in the country/folk mode, she (Kaset) has reinvented herself as an inventively produced alterna-pop chanteuse. And for that, we salute her with this issue's DISCovery award. Seek this out, it's one of the best pop efforts I've heard outta this town". - Robert K. Oermann "Kaset is one of Nashville's finest singer/songwriters and has perfected her skills as a wordsmith and storyteller. The 11 tracks on 'Sanctuary' speak for themselves with their powerful narrative and insightful lyrics. The songs display a wide range of emotions and themes and are presented with Kaset's seductive charm and intense, yet haunting vocal stylings". - The OracIe REVIEWS Nashville's Flipside This record is why I love hanging out at the Bluebird Cafe. It's always fascinating to hear how songwriters envision their own work, especially if it has been made popular by someone else. Angela Kaset has approached some of her material made more famous by others, as well as some songs she will, no doubt make famous herself. Of course "Something in Red" is here, and the bar e- bones arrangement Kaset favors makes the desperation of the song seem even more so. The sparse instrumentation not only lends to the gray mood of the record, it brings the lyrics to the forefront. Kaset is a great lyricist, so be sure to pay careful attention to the masterpiece "Cinderella" which eloquently describes the beauty and bittersweet pain of a moment of glory. The sultry nature of the ballad "Jones For You" is humorously set off by the choice of drug slang to describe her feelings for her love. When you throw in great performances by some big name friends (Dave Pomeroy, Craig Krampf, Kenny Greenberg, Roy Vogt, etc.), you've got the perfect record to blast on a dreary Sunday afternoon. And you don't even have to worry about being shushed. - Joey Butler Music Row Magazine Walking through the Tower of London at midnight. Spooky, ethereal, ectoplasmic. Oh yeah and hauntingly beautiful. Seek this out: It's one of the best produced pop efforts I've heard outta this town. Kaset is best known for writing Lorrie Morgan’s hit "Something In Red." - Robert K. Oermann Focus On Sesac More than 80 music industry executives attended a dinner held by SESAC during MIDEM '99 at L'Amandier in Moutins, France. Dr. Wayne Bickerton, chair- man, SESAC International, and Pat Rogers, sr. vice president, writer/publisher relations, SESAC, served as hosts for the event, which included performances by SESAC- affiliated singer/ songwriters Angela Kaset and Kieran Kane. Kaset was in Cannes promoting her album "Sanctuary"; Kane, promoting "Six Months, No Sun." The Hollywood Reporter April 22, 1997 Making the Connection. The hottest new acts are surprisingly fresh and original as labels drop their copycat ways. Several songwriters working out of Nashville are writing hits and furthering their own careers as artists. Jim Lauderdale's been a favorite writer of George Strait for a few years now, and Matraca Berg has also walked that line. Angela Kaset, who records for the independent label Winter Harvest, recently had a handful of compositions on the country charts, including "Hopechest," recorded by another new face, Stephanie Bentley. And Kim Richey, who has been signed by Mercury , penned Trisha Yearwood's recent hit, "Baby, I Lied." " Anytime you get your name out there, they know that you're alive and it's very validating especially to somebody like me who does something different," Kaset says. "Every time someone takes a chance on one of my songs and they do well on the charts, it gives me another day to live artistically." - Darryl Morden Billboard May 3, 1997 Best known for having written the country hit "Something In Red" for Lorrie Morgan, Angela Kaset is a big-voiced, sultry vocalist who accompanies herself on piano. She wrote or co-wrote all 11 cuts here, any number of which could be hits for country singers. Kaset is a prime example of the broadening of country's base in a rapidly evolving Nashville. Think Phoebe Snow as a country singer. Nashville Banner Family songs ring true, strike gold. Country Music Week drew to a sweet close with sentimental devotionals of parent-child relationships prevailing at the SESAC Country Music Awards. Angela Kaset was named SESAC's country songwriter of the year on the strength of her compositions Daddy's Little Girl (as recorded by Kippi Brannon) and The Hopechest Song popularized by Stephanie Bentley), songs first inspired by her children - that touched an emotional chord with listeners. "I wrote The Hopechest Song after I sent one of my daughters off to camp," Kaset explained after the formal awards dinner Thursday night at SESAC's headquarters on Music Row. "I started to realize my kids were growing up and going away. There is a similar meaningfulness about Daddy's Little Girl. Both songs are about real emotions, and nothing touches people more than kids. It so happens that Butterfly Kisses took everything by storm this year. I guess it was a theme whose time had come." Kaset -who is perhaps best known for penning Lorrie Morgan's 1992 hit, Something In Red performed The Hopechest Song on piano in front of more than 250 music business professionals in attendance Thursday night. She, as the other winners, was given her award by SESAC President and Chief Operating Officer Group Bill Velez and SESAC Senior Vice President Pat Rogers. "I look forward to waking up every morning with the hope of saying something that perhaps will make someone's life a little better or change our world in some small way," Kaset said during her acceptance speech. Kaset's publisher, Purple Sun Music - a division of Ten Ten Music Group - was named SESAC's 1997 Country Publisher of the Year. "Angela is not afraid to say what she feels and I'm not afraid to publish it," said Jewel Coburn who co-owns Ten Ten Music Group with her husband, Barry Coburn. "Most of the label heads and producers in town are fans of Angela. For us, it's really just about finding those artists who are going to make her songs believable." "While alot of people are looking for uptempo radio hits, Angela will sometimes be writing the ballad which hits home for a lot of people. She tends to connect with most people. Bentley, who turned Hopechest into a hit, agreed. "I first heard Angela perform The Hopechest Song at the Bluebird Cafe and it totally jerked the tears out of me and everybody else in that wonderful little place," the singer said following dinner. "You could have heard a pin drop, except for the sniffles around the room. It was such a powerful and beautiful song; I asked her that night if I could have the song for my album. "Every time I sing this song it touches people's hearts, especially mine. I'm thankful that there are people like her around who write such beautiful songs for people like me to sing." - Michael Gray       design • maintenance• commerce by echomusic