(Modern folk / Harp / Pop) Dee Carstensen - Discography (5 CD) - 1995-2005, MP3, 192 kbps

01 Time
02 Before You
03 Underneath My Skin
04 Love Thing
05 Angel
06 What A Little Love Can Do
07 To You From Me
08 Hemingway's Shotgun
09 Stay
10 This Time Around
11 The Light

01 Be My Man
02 Pandora's Box
03 The Map
04 Hurricane
05 The Boy Was In Trouble
06 The Last Time It Mattered
07 Saviour
08 Take A Chance
09 By The Wayside
10 Holding Back An Ocean
11 Come Down In Time
12 Farewell, With Love

01 This Time Around
02 Waterhole
03 Before You
04 Finally Free
05 The Light
06 The Wish
07 Angel
08 For What It's Worth
09 The Last Time It Mattered
10 Somewhere Over The Rainbow

01 Harp Interlude
02 Bless My Child
03 This Night
04 I Sing You A Song
05 Vibraphone Interlude
06 I Have The World In My Arms
07 Sweet Dreams
08 My Little One
09 Amy's Angel
10 Oboe and Mandolin Interlude
11 Can You Hear A Lullaby
12 No Small Wonder
13 Cello Interlude
14 Man On The Moon
15 Mick's Song (Rockabye Baby and Me)
16 Violin, Cello and Guitar Interlude

01 Cocoon
02 Fly Away
03 Patch of Blue
04 Parking Lot
05 The Bravest Thing
06 Details
07 Eviction
08 Do You Still Want This Dance

As the daughter of Professor Dr. Edwin L. Carstensen, a biomedical engineer in University of Rochester, NY, Dee was influenced by her father and his musical talent on piano and clarinet. Dee and her four siblings began to take music lessons, with Dee first playing piano.
At the age of eight, Carstensen was selected as one of five children tapped by the Eastman School of Music's experimental program to study harp with a classical harpist from the New York Philharmonic. Although the program only lasted one year, Dee studied the harp for nine. She also developed an interest in singing and songwriting, which eventually caused her to move from the conservatory path to a career as a singer-songwriter.
Carstensen's singing and songwriting talents were discovered by vibist Mike Mainieri, who became her husband in 1993. Her debut album Beloved One, released in 1993, included guitar work by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.
Her second album, Regarding the Soul (1995), integrated her singing, songwriting and harp-playing. The Map (1998) was a collaboration with Mainieri. Their first child, Ruby Anna, was born on November 19, 2000.
Dee also recorded a children's album, Can You Hear Lullaby (2001), which featured guest vocals Everett Bradley, Curtis King and Julie Dansky and instrumental work by her husband.
Dee went back into the studio and recorded a solo album, Patch of Blue, which was released in 2005. Unlike previous work, all eight songs were originals, except Fly Away whose music was co-written with her husband who played vibraphone on the album. Patch of Blue did not include any guitar work. Instead, it featured Dee's harp and vocals, with backing from the Tosca String Quartet [1] and several woodwind players.
Dee was the first pop singer to participate in the Lyon & Healy Jazz and Pop Harp Festival (1999), sharing the stage with jazz harpists Park Stickney and Deborah Henson-Conant. Dee plays a Lyon & Healy electric harp in her recordings and live performances. Her incorporation of harp in singer-songwriter and pop music also influenced the new generation of young singer-songwriter-harpists, such as Joanna Newsom and Habiba Doorenbos.