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Critics warmed to her
release, CANDY & DIRT (1999), which Heather released on her own imprint
Impossible Records. The New Yorker Magazine described her as a "...guitar-slinging,
spiky-haired New York City transplant from Jacksonville, Texas with a
wispy, smoky voice and a serious talent for writing compelling songs."
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Billboard, Stereo Review,
Interview, and Request were but a sample of other publications weighing
in on the charm of her sophomore project. In 2000 Heather teamed with
manager Mike Maska and together they brought her new project, REAL, to
Nashville's Eminent Records. Mike encouraged Heather to experiment
with co-writing and introduced her to songwriter Bruce Brody (who worked
with Rickie Lee Jones on her Artemis release, It's Like This). Heather
says she didn't want to seem difficult, but inside she felt herself to
be a loner who couldn't share her work with a collaborator. "I was
as shocked as anybody," she says, "that we immediately
wrote a really great song!" Heather penned two of the album's tracks
with Brody and also included her first cover, the Willie Dixon tune "Spoonful."
REAL
represents a breakthrough on many levels to Heather. As a songwriter she
feels more focused on musiciality and melody; she's balanced her sharply-drawn
tales of outsiders with unabashed love songs; and she's reached the point
in her career when she can fully trust her own artistic instincts. She's
excited by this new departure from second-guessing and self- criticism.
"You can't know the future," she says, "but you can have
faith -- wonderful things can happen.
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