I hope you find a place for this white trash girl in your heart now that I will be on your CD shelf. And I hope you find a way to embrace the trashiest parts of yourself!
Love & Kisses,
Candye

Candye Kane: vocals
Preston Hubbard: upright and electric basses
Damien Llanes: drums
Jeff Ross: electric and acoustic guitars
Riley Osbourne: piano and organ keyboards
... and many guest musicians, among them "The Texas Horns".
Produced by Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff (Marcia Ball, W.C. Clark, Pat Boyack)

Release date

1/2005

Release Notes

Trash: Refuse; Rubbish; Discards; An object one has thrown away; Something unwanted or worthless; Something spoken or written that is viewed as absurd or meaningless; Literature or art that is considered offensive; A term that deliberately insults somebody's moral or social position.

"From my humble introduction into this world, I have either felt like trash, been treated like trash or been surrounded by it. As an adult, I have sought out other people's trash in Goodwills and thrift stores and glammed myself up with shiny and feathery discards - the trashier the better. Being a white trash girl is not an insult to me: it is a culmination and a celebration of my entire life. I was born in North East L.A. to a father who was in prison for embezzlement and a mother who was a hard-working pack rat. In spite of her efforts, we spent my early years on and off welfare and food stamps. My parents collected trash. My artist step-dad made elaborate collages from other people's refuse. My mom dug through dumpsters for treasures. Their entire house and much of mine is cluttered with the collectible trash of junk and antique stores. I became a gang banger at 15 and a mother at 17 and earned my first real money posing for trashy magazines like Juggs, Floppers and Hustler. When I finally had the courage to pursue the musical career I had always dreamed of, I was rejected and written off repeatedly by record executives as absurd and meaningless, just like the true definition of the word "trash."
Trash is not an insult to me. It is the hard-earned badge of success that has sustained me when no one believed in my talent but myself. It is an honor to be called a trashy broad in the tradition of legends such as Divine and Gypsy Rose Lee. The term "white trash girl" has the tricky implications that there are also brown and black and yellow trash girls too and that we are all united in our consumption and creation of trash. One girl's art is another girl's trash is another girl's art. Now you can decide whether the music you hold here is trash or art. Today, it might be art and tomorrow when its sells on Ebay, it will be trash.
What better place to make my CD than Texas where people are low-down and proud of it, in the big, friendly Texas style? Big hair, big jewellery and big ranches have always been a Texas cliché. When everyone else thought I was trash as a singer, there was one man in Texas who gave me a chance to sing on his record label over ten years ago – Clifford Antone. So I returned to Austin to make this, my 7th CD with some of my old friends, Stuart Sullivan, Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff, Preston Hubbard and Jeff Ross and some of my new friends, Damien Llanes and Riley Osbourn. The songs on the CD are a mixture of originals and well-chosen covers - they are not all "trashy." Some are sure to be considered "offensive" ("Masturbation Blues") and others may be considered "treasures" ("Misunderstood"), by the different people who listen to them. Consider this CD a personal glimpse of my trashy inner world. Here are songs that I wrote and some are co-written by each of my now almost grown sons. Songs about strong women who make no apologies ("Estrogen Bomb"). Women who break hearts, ("Queen of the Wrecking Ball") yet seek out love and peace just the same. Women who are proud of their size ("Big Fat Mamas") and their sexuality ("Mistress Carmen").
I hope you find a place for this white trash girl in your heart now that I will be on your CD shelf. And I hope you find a way to embrace the trashiest parts of yourself!
Love & Kisses,
Candye

Candye Kane: vocals
Preston Hubbard: upright and electric basses
Damien Llanes: drums
Jeff Ross: electric and acoustic guitars
Riley Osbourne: piano and organ keyboards
... and many guest musicians, among them "The Texas Horns".
Produced by Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff (Marcia Ball, W.C. Clark, Pat Boyack)

 

Tracklist

1. White Trash Girl
2. Estrogen Bomb
3. What Happened To The Girl
4. What A Day For A Daydream
5. Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style
6. Queen Of The Wrecking Ball
7. Misunderstood
8. I Wanna Do More
9. It Must Be Love
10. Work What You Got
11. I Could Fall For You
12. Mistress Carmen
13. Masturbation Blues
14. Let There Be Peace On Earth