| Songs for Clem | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Sarah Harmer |
| Cover: | Songsforclem.jpg |
| Released: | 1999 |
| Recorded: | 1998 |
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| Length: | 32:00 |
| Label: | Cold Snap Records/Universal Music Canada |
| Producer: | Jason Euringer, Sarah Harmer |
| Prev Title: | This Great Black Night |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | You Were Here |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Songs for Clem is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter by Sarah Harmer, credited to Harmer and Jason Euringer, and released in 1999.
The album was never intended by Harmer for widespread release, but as a 1998 Christmas gift for her father, Clem Harmer. It features Harmer's personal, home-recorded renditions of several of her father's favourite pop and country standards. Upon hearing the recording, Harmer's friends and family convinced her to release it independently. She did so in 1999; following her commercial breakthrough in 2000 with You Were Here, the album was re-released under Harmer's new major label distribution deal with Universal Music Canada.
Clem Harmer subsequently appeared on Sarah's 2005 album I'm A Mountain, contributing backing vocals to two songs.[1]
Allmusic music critic Johnny Lofthus wrote the album feels "lovingly handmade, with cover art right out of a child's Father's Day art project and an immediate, field-type recording quality that features accompaniment from crickets and a passing rainstorm. This isn't to say it's lo-fi; on the contrary, it's crystal clear." and that "... it's a true sentimental journey for people inspired by their parents to love music."