Sunday, March 22, 2009

Raina Rose - End of Endless False Starts


1 Are You Still in Love With the World?
2 Desire
3 The King’s Flashlight
4 Blind Cyrus
5 Air & Water
6 The River
7 Misaligned Tires
8 This Ain’t My House
9 Not Not Love
10 Starts With a Low Hum
11 End of Endless False Starts
12 I Would Like to Kiss Everyone (Bonus track)


RAINA ROSE was born on the day the music died. She sings folk-borne americana songs of long travels, fictional characters, time that plays tricks and governments that play tricks. She was a 2007 Kerrville New Folk Finalist, received honorable mention in the 2006 Telluride Troubadour Compettion, and played at High Sierra Music Festival in '06 and '07. The Austin based sinner/songwriter tours nationally and is seeking label interest for her third album "End of Endless False Starts".

"Her voice is clear and sweet, recalling at times Suzanne Vega or Dirty Martini's McKinley, and even -- when she opts for a slip-and-slide sort of phrasing popular with young female folkies these days -- Ani DiFranco. She is most compelling when she gets serious, as in the ruminative See You Singing, on which her multitracked vocals create a haunting effect, or the dark literary vignette Back Alley Butcher.... Suffice to say, this moth has taken wing." -Marty Hughley, Entertainment Editor, The Oregonian

"Portland native Raina Rose is everything a young female folksinger should be...From her late duo the Gypsy Moths to her latest and best-yet CD, The Prophet, the Panhandler, and the Moon, her vocal, guitar and songwriting chops continue to flourish."...www.cdbaby.com

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