Member Since: 4/6/2007
Band Website: charisselowe.com
Band Members: Charisse Kahler, and as 'The Kahlers' with husband Steve
Influences: I was influenced as a singer by many of my dad's favorites because that's who I heard growing up. He listened to jazz, and I heard Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Keely Smith, Billie Holiday, and my favorite, Maxine Sullivan. Singer-songwriters? Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, Tom Rush, Chris Smither, Paul Geremia, Susan Werner, and Shawn Colvin. Favorite singer? Maura O'Connell!!!
Sounds Like: I've been told I sound like, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Bonnie Raitt, and Maura O'Connell. It seems to depend on who the listener likes best..Here's a review of my first CD, "Places I've Been...People I've Known, by Alan Burgebuhr. Alan writes jazz reviews for Cadence magazine, but has developed a CDBaby jones, and found my CD. Here's what he said:“ Although I write mostly about jazz/cabaret vocals for Cadence Magazine, my musical interests reach beyond those categories. Usually, I find singer/song-writers of little interest. I find their songs too often strained and cliché laden, as though they all learned to write songs by subscribing to the same song-writing correspondence course.
And, there's Charisse Lowe Kahler and her CD. Her perspective is so damn honest and uniquely human - and her turn of phrase so often breathtaking. "Arms Around Me Still" moves me to that point that my vision is compromised by a certain effusion from some sort of ducts operating in my eyes. There are lines in other songs - both speaking about "grace" - that thrill me.....literally. One occurs in "What I Need To Know." - "..days of anger, days of grace/one day at a time, heart to heart and face to face." The other is at the end of "Lime Green Sweater," when "having met the devil, and retained his grace/but fell asleep with a smile - On his face" I took those lines very personally.I come away from each separate listening of this CD with new images etched in my mind. "Bare trees like black lace hemming the edge of the sky," struck me the last time. She is a poet… And her singing voice, her phrasing - all delicious. I consider myself very fortunate to have found this CD in my nocturnal wanderings into the CD Baby catalog's innards. Please accept my sincere thanks."
Record Label: MollyDog Music
Type of Label: None