About This:

"The CD is no warm, fuzzy rhapsody to motherhood. One encounters no angels on puffy clouds, no woodland creatures spouting folksy homilies. [The title] refers to the cause for which the songwriters contributed, but also to the songs themselves, written by mom songwriters to help other moms examine and cope with their daunting role."
- The Boston Globe

"Since every song delves into the mother-child relationship, the CD has more flow and cohesion than most multi-artist benefit discs. The CD's most eloquent song is Karen Taylor-Good's "Heart of My Heart," a gorgeous ballad about a teen's alienation and a mom's longing for the child she once felt she knew."
- The Boston Herald

CD Features:
Diane ZeiglerAlso available on CD Freedom
Sara Hickman
Laurie McClain
Ramona Silver
Lori McKenna - Also available on CD Freedom
Suzzy Roche
Ashley Cleveland
Barbara Kessler - Also available on CD Freedom
Eliza Gilkyson
Karen Taylor-Good
Rachel Bissex
Jan Luby - Also available on CD Freedom
Tish Hinojosa

Producer's note:
"Hope: Mothers Helping Mothers" is my "mix tape" for moms. As I compiled this record, the title took on another meaning: these songs were helping me. I remembered the joyful but sometimes difficult transition into my new role as a mom three years ago, and the few discoveries I made that truly pulled me through at times: Anne Lamott's "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year" and "Mothers Who Think," an on-line column on Salon.com. I was relieved to find a virtual support group in the common observations and feelings of other women at various stages of raising children, but found there were few expressions in contemporary music of the kinds of emotions I was now roller-coastering through. It is my hope that this compilation honor mothers, their children, and mothering, this most common of careers, in all it's joy and complexity and hope.
- Barbara Kessler

About Project Hope:
Project Hope maintains a stance of "struggle and joy" which is "dedicated to ending family homelessness and building a community that promotes self-reliance and interdependence." The work of Project Hope includes providing shelter and support for single mothers and their families, (in 1998, they sheltered 22 families), operating a food pantry, running a children¹s center, developing minority owned child care micro enterprises to provide critically needed childcare services to women transitioning from welfare. Other programs include adult education and community development. More information on this dynamic and worthwhile program can be found on-line at www.prohope.org