Imagine Diana Ross growing up in Saskatchewan and you may start to get a feel for Carrie Catherine’s sassy songwriting and seductive sound, known as “green-eyed soul” and celebrated on Venus Envy. . .

Using sassy songwriting and electric guitar, Carrie Catherine (Horachek) has a way of seducing audiences with engaging stories and a dramatic vocal style. Her new album Venus Envy (November 2005) delves even further into her version of “green-eyed soul” where this prairie-born musician’s affection for Diana Ross and Al Green becomes most apparent. Both the sounds and the stories are soulful, as Carrie Catherine transforms pedestrian events into poetic songs that audiences relate and respond to.

For Venus Envy, Carrie partnered with John MacArthur Ellis (Jeremy Fisher, The..