On her latest album, A Thing So Real, Israel-based singer Sandy Cash takes a major step forward with a collection that builds on her solid reputation as a crowd-pleasing performer and showcases her talents as a songwriter. A Thing So Real serves up e [+]On her latest album, A Thing So Real, Israel-based singer Sandy Cash takes a major step forward with a collection that builds on her solid reputation as a crowd-pleasing performer and showcases her talents as a songwriter. A Thing So Real serves up eleven literate story-songs that transverse the emotional terrain of modern life with memorable melodies, compelling lyrics, and Cash's trademark comic flair. In this new release (Dec. 2003) Cash reveals a mastery of the style that has endeared her to audiences all over the world.
Recorded at Muso Productions in Jerusalem, A Thing So Real was produced by Mitch Clyman, a graduate of Boston's famed Berklee School of Music. Clyman also produced Cash's first album, Exact Change, in 2000. Heard on folk music radio from California to New Zealand, Exact Change received enthusiastic reviews in Ireland ("a collection of gems" - Nicky Rossiter, Rambles), Canada ("... the power and broad interpretive style of a Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand ...Sandy Cash has a very special gift, that more than a singer, she is an excellent storyteller." - Bob McKenzie, Soundbytes) and the United States ("... a recording well worth seeking out. The world is certainly a far happier and funnier place with Sandy Cash in it." - Roberta Schwartz, FAME Music Reviews).
Exact Change also caught the attention of some of contemporary folk music's leading lights, including Christine Lavin, who featured Cash's music on her website, pointing out Cash's "...impeccable taste, a gorgeous voice [and] an ear for clever lyrics."
A Thing So Real takes on a variety of subjects - the tug of war between independence and intimacy, the joy and chaos of parenthood, and the modern culture of consumerism. Cash's talent for comedy shines through in "The Survival of the Fittest" - an exploration of how Darwinian evolution may help women survive damaging notions about female body image - and "The Madlibs Song" - in which a vacationing psychologist leaves her patient with a fill-in-the-blanks therapy session, with hilarious results.
Two songs on the album relate directly to political events - current and historical. "The Children's Brigade" describes the cynical use of children in war, and the society-wide forces that come together to teach children to
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