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Gracie Vandiver & Friends

Trail Of Light

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

"Trail of Light" received an Entertainment Industries Council 2008 PRISM Award! The songs on Trail of Light reflect the journey from alcoholism and addiction to a new life in recovery. It's a compilation CD that includes music from a variety of very talented independent artists and award-winning songwriters, including Paul Williams, Mary Gauthier, Jon Vezner, Jack Sundrud, and Sharon Vaughn, offering many different vocal styles and musical genres. The first twelve songs lyrically address the emotional twists and turns on the path, reflecting "What it was like," "What happened," and "What it's like now." The fifteen-song journey concludes with "A vision for you," offering songs of hope and inspiration to maintain solid footing in day-to-day recovery.

Gracie Vandiver

Gracie Vandiver

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Award-winning songwriter and producer Gracie Vandiver offers some of her favorite songs she’s penned about self-discovery, recovery, and transformation in her self-titled CD. Sit back, close your eyes, and enjoy listening to these five “unplugged” guitar-vocal recordings of singer-songwriter tunes in their purest form.

Voices From AFAR

Voices From AFAR

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

This (first) Voices from AFAR CD was recorded to raise funding and awareness for the American Foundation For Addiction Research (AFAR). Inspired by their own experiences, the songs on this CD were all written by artists in recovery to honor the entire journey to freedom. As witnesses of the movement from despair to hope, depression to joy, insanity to sanity, it is their hope that these songs will touch you in a positive and meaningful way. The Voices from AFAR have traveled the country with Dr. Patrick Carnes performing this music in recovery seminars.

Voices From AFAR

Voices From AFAR - Saving Katy

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Saving Katy is the second compilation CD from Voices From AFAR. It features new acoustic arrangements of some of their earlier recorded songs, as well as some fresh new ones. Saving Katy captures the live performance sound of its members, Sherrie Phillips, Vee Maurice, Boh Cooper, and Paul Jefferson.

Just Ray

Learning To Live Again

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

For over twenty years, Ray W. crafted songs for various Nashville publishers, accumulating sixty-four cuts and three top ten singles with such artists as Brooks & Dunn and Lonestar. In 2000, Ray returned to his hometown in Georgia to regroup after getting into recovery, realizing he not only had to change playgrounds and playmates, but the type of music he wrote as well. He’s always written songs about life as he sees it and now that includes life in recovery.

Laura C.

The Gift Of Brokenness

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

The Gift of Brokenness is a raw and honest musical journal of one woman's recovery from drugs and alcohol. Dark and haunting at first, this body of work quickly explodes both in tempo and spirit, as you actually hear light pour into Laura C's blackest places. Produced by four-time Grammy winner, Randy Miller; Co-Produced by Sandy Stewart (Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac)

Sonia Lee

Chance To Start Over

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

2006 Kerrville New Folk Finalist, Sonia Lee, has been sober for over eleven years. Anyone who has ever needed a chance to start over will find hope and inspiration in her newest CD. It is filled with authenticity and recovery to soothe and comfort your spirit. The CD's title track, Chance To Start Over, is the Sober Cafe Podcast's theme song.

Russell Ballew

Recovery Music Volume 3

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Drawing from his personal experience with addiction and recovery, Russell Ballew bears his heart and soul on his latest recovery music CD. The songs are personal and yet universal to anyone facing addiction and its fallout.

Stefan Wever

The Gardener

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Folk 'n Roll / Americana

The Gardener deals subtly with the wreckage that addiction creates, the sadness that addicts and alcoholics feel, and the awakening one feels when finding a higher power in which we can trust and rely. Wever, who wrote all the music, sang all the vocals, and played piano, is backed by some of the best studio musicians and recorded at a premier studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Two tracks on this 11-song CD aren’t about recovery, but hey, sometimes you just gotta lighten things up a bit.)

Mary Lyn B.

Twelve Songs

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

"Twelve Songs" is a compilation of songs that have been inspired through the 12 steps of recovery. Each song uniquely relates to a corresponding step. Mary Lyn's journey of recovery is reflected in songs that will bring strength and encouragement to anyone at any stage of recovery. Mary Lyn has performed at recovery festivals, conventions, and private fundraising events across the United States.

Patrick Haggerson

(Recovery Spirit)2

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Recovery Spirit was first released in 2002 by Chris Compton and Patrick Haggerson. This second edition reflects six years of performing the concert for various levels of recovering audiences. This version has seven new additions, five original and two folk songs arranged to express the spirit of Step 9 & Step 10. All (Recovery Spirit)2 pieces are offered as musical expressions which explore and celebrate the changes experienced in the working of each step.

Lori Wagner

Rockovry

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Rockovry is straight from the heart, written by a calling from a higher power to put some fun and excitement into recovery from addictions. The songs on Rockovry, all based on slogans from 12 step programs, have driving guitars, lots of bass, drums, and a female vocalist who gives it all she's got.

David Zasloff

Courage & Wisdom

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Courage & Wisdom contains five spiritual songs fully arranged with orchestra and choir, including beautiful new music for The Lord's Prayer and The Serenity Prayer.

Robin Richardson

Wild Bird

Genres: Folk 'n Roll / Americana 12 Step / Recovery

The songs on Wild Bird contain stories of the possibility and hope of healing and health. Recovering from an eating disorder, alcoholism, and incest, Richardson knows that nothing is too big, dark, or difficult to overcome and then be turned into a source of wisdom and strength.

John Totaro

Vice Presidential Pardons

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

In a 12-song journey entitled "Vice Presidential Pardons," critically-acclaimed songwriter John Totaro's lyrics delve into living one day at a time (he calls it 'one beat at a time'). John writes about life - - his life - - the blurry alcohol daze and the first three years of sobriety.

Andrew Pace

Out Of Darkness Into Light

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Urban

Andrew Jerome Pace is best known for his work as the drummer "Babe" Pace for C&C Music Factory, the 1990's sensation that gave us the hit song, "Gonna Make You Sweat / Everybody Dance Now," which sold over 8 million copies. Pace, a Certified Addictions Counselor, created a self-help urban / R&B CD with bittersweet lyrics in spoken word, that reminds us of the pain of drug and alcohol addiction and the joy of recovery.

Kleen

Grace & Grit

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

KLEEN is a way of life. KLEEN is looking and seeing spirit at the heart of things. KLEEN is perseverance in the face of temptation and adversity. KLEEN is forever awakening to miracles. KLEEN is the edge of the street married to acceptance, hope, faith, and love. KLEEN is believing. KLEEN is grace with grit. KLEEN is we got your back—you’re never alone, never again. KLEEN is the music.

Michael Purington

I Think I’ll Quit Drinkin’ Today

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

While most country musicians write and sing about drinking, Purington sings about not drinking. Michael & The Messengers are five fun-loving sober guys recording songs about recovery and all that goes with it.

Michael & The Messengers

People With No Last Names

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Michael Purington’s first CD, "I Think I'll Quit Drinkin' Today," was all about The Guy. "People With No Last Names" is all about The People who are there waiting when The Guy decides to get sober.

Michael & The Messengers

Promises

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Michael & The Messengers offer 24 songs on their newest CD, "Promises," marrying music to the message of recovery and making the message easy to digest and more fun. Their songs are packed with joy, humor, and deep emotion. The message is simple: quit drinking and learn to live sober.

Paula Hawley

The Voice Inside

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

In her own words, "The material for The Voice Inside came from sharing my spiritual journey in the Sunday chapel service at Cumberland Heights, a Nashville area treatment center for drug and alcohol dependence. What has turned into a sort of ministry for me started through the horror of watching my own brother nearly die from drug abuse."

Paula Hawley

That's The Truth

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

That’s The Truth includes thirteen songs specifically about the spiritual side of recovery. Paula’s clear voice and authentic delivery are soothing to the spirit. This CD is another spiritual tool that reminds us there’s power greater than ourselves, and life is so much easier just by “letting go.”

Bill Z.

Slowbriety

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

The songs on "Slowbriety" range from soft southern classic rock (ala the Allman Bros.) to Bob Dylan with a country flavor, to high-powered (well, more like higher powered) rock 'n roll reminiscent of Dire Straits. Drawing from his 20+ years of experience in recovery, Bill Z. wrote or co-wrote many of these songs. Bill Z. is also the founder of 12StepRadio.com, where songs from many of the CDs for sale at Sunlight Of The Spirit Music are played on the Internet 24/7.

The Serenity Songs Project

Twelve Steps To Freedom

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

Crafted around the principles of the twelve-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and its many related organizations, Twelve Steps To Freedom is recorded in a variety of musical styles from pop, to R&B and country. Recovering lyricist and producer, Mary Dawson, enlisted the help of composer/arranger, Bruce Greer, and the artists on the CD, to bring her songs to life. Grammy Award winner, Cynthia Clawson, is featured on this album as well as six other gifted vocalists including Babbie Mason, Jessy Dixon, Joe Bright, Tommy Clawson, Patti Berry, and Bruce Greer.

Healing Songs by Various Artists

Healing Songs

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Christian / Gospel

Healing Songs was originally designed as recovery music for ACA, ACOA, co-dependents or anyone in recovery from any and all abuse issues. It has since become a resource for inner child work and healing for self and family. Healing Songs is for all Christians who want to deepen their faith and/or want to use this music in their ministry to help others.

Greg Tamblyn

Shootout At The I’m OK, You’re OK Corral

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Positive / New Thought

Greg Tamblyn, NCW (No Credentials Whatsoever), has been a successful singer, songwriter, speaker, and humorist for over twenty years. He has an irreverent sense of humor, and has a special interest in the relationship of music, laughter, and lifestyle to physical and emotional well-being. The first six songs on this CD are clever, with inspired lyrics about pop psychology and self-awareness. The next five are rockers and ballads about the power of love, emotional and spiritual growth.

Selfish Steam

Lost In Recovery

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

"Lost In Recovery" received an Entertainment Industries Council 2009 PRISM Award! Selfish Steam is the real deal; They've been there, done that, and are standing on the other side. Their music was written from their own life experiences and engages audiences of all ages with their heartfelt ballads and upbeat rockin' tunes. Lost In Recovery is the followup release to their popular Version 4.0 CD.

Selfish Steam

Version 4.0

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

In May of 2002, Selfish Steam received a Prism Commendation Award and a Prism Certificate of Merit (sponsored by the Entertainment Industries Council and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation) for their "Outstanding contribution accurately depicting drug and alcohol addiction in a music/music video recording." Dubbed by the media as "Friends in Recovery with Music that Touches the Soul," Selfish Steam's all-original music is written from their own life experiences.

Lee Domann

Songs For Ebby T.

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Lee Domann, an award-winning songwriter, has songs recorded by a variety of artists including Kathy Mattea, The Bishops, and Riders In the Sky. Lee's style is reminiscent of Garrison Keillor, of NPR's The Prairie Home Companion. His music will make you laugh, cry, cheer, remember, and know. The message in these 10 songs will be familiar to many persons within the rich variety of 12-Step programs currently available.

Leah Clark

Road of Recovery

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Leah has found a new joy in her music since she got sober and asked God to change her life. This four-song EP radiates that joy and highlights Leah's God-given talents.

Jim W.

One Man's Walk

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Jim W.’s journey out of his own personal hell and into a community of recovery has become the substance of "One Man's Walk," 12 songs chronicling the amazing changes the Twelve Step Recovery Program has brought into his life. Each song is dedicated to one of the twelve steps. Exploring the simple spiritual tools that have helped Jim and countless others to break the chains of addiction, these songs - these stories, shed light on one man's walk - out of despair.

Mark Elder & Friends

Just For Today

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

Mark Elder (and a few of his good friends) recorded this CD of songs based on the twelve steps. All of the songs are composed by Elder. You'll notice some rock, reggae, and R&B mixed in with a little experience, strength and hope.

Gail DeWitt

Conscious Contact Vol. One: Where Spirituality & Recovery Meet

Genres: Meditation 12 Step / Recovery

Conscious Contact Volume One: "Where Spirituality & Recovery Meet" is a step-by-step process to walk you from a place of addiction and/or loss to a place of wholeness and freedom. Whether or not you are in 12 step program, this CD will walk you through the wonderful principles embodied in the 12 steps and explain their spiritual or metaphysical application. This CD is about creating a life that works for everyone – beginning with creating a life that works for you.

Andy Anderson

If I'd Known I'd Live This Long

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery

This album by the Australian actor and former Missing Links singer/drummer is full of songs about drinking, loving, losing, and no longer drinking. They're sometimes boppy a la 50's rock, occasionally kinda Hawaiian and usually fairly countryish.

Hawai'i Island Performing Artists

We Are 'Ohana, Songs Of Hope

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery World / Cultural

We Are 'Ohana is a stunning compilation of much of Hawai'i's best talent, coming together to make music and to fight the scourge of drug addiction. Most of the artists performing on the CD are in recovery, including songwriter/musician/producer Gregg Perry.