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"All of the music on this CD is exceptional...very highly recommend it." — Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com
Watching For Rain debuted at 3 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 New Age/Ambient/World Radio/Internet Airwaves Chart for February 2009 and moved up to 2 in March 2009.
Instrumental pianist Anne Trenning titled her third recording Watching For Rain, as a metaphor indicating a time of hopeful anticipation. “As our world continues to face the challenges of economy, war and the environment, we find ourselves looking toward new opportunities, for rain to come and refresh the earth, and for growth and positive change to occur.”
Trenning explains, “In a broader sense, it seems many of us are hoping for our world to enter a period of healing; we want to be part of a cleansing transformation — which is why I chose the analogy of rain. I wanted the music on this album to reflect new beginnings, and to offer emotional encouragement during this time of anticipation and hope.”
Watching for Rain contains ten originals plus the Welsh folk melody “The Ash Grove,” the traditional spiritual “I Want To Be Ready,” the modern gospel “H. I. A. T. W.,” the Don Schlitz-Paul Overstreet country classic “When You Say Nothing At All” and a 37-second benediction-like coda of Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released.” Trenning also offers a new arrangement of the Celtic-spirited “Eden Hall” that originally appeared on her first recording. Her new material ranges from the grand and stately “The Welcome Song” (featuring a piano-cello-violin trio) to the Americana minuet-feel of “Carolina Moon.” “You and Me” is about the evolving nature of relationships. “A Prayer for the World” is both reverent and soulful.
I was listening to the these musicians while making Watching For Rain...
Calobo, Buddy and Julie Miller, The Subdudes, Willis Alan Ramsey, Sophie Milman, Loggins and Messina, Dip Ferell and the Truetones, Travis Tritt, Hal Ketchum, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Trisha Yearwood, YoYo Ma and Friends, The Allman Brothers, Jimmy Thackery, Tres Chicas, Fleetwood Mac, The Bodeans, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty, Nickel Creek, Bruce Horsby, Buddy Greene, Vince Gill, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dixie Chicks, Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel, Tuck & Patti, Mindy Smith
Some of my favorite writers are...
Ron Rash, Lee Smith, Celia Rivenbark, Dave Barry, Garrison Keillor, Robert Morgan, Charles Frazier, Kaye Gibbons, Pam Houston, David Sedaris
Some of my favorite Charlotte restaurants are...
Harper's, The Pizza Peel, John's Country Kitchen, Dish, Revolution, Eddie's Place, Dolce, Mimosa Grill, The Diamond, 131 Main, Pewter Rose, Amelie's Bakery, Foskoskie's, Intermezzo, Great Harvest Bread Co., Nova's Bakery, Gus Sir Beef, The Flying Biscuit, Lulu's, Pike's Soda Shop, Rooster's, Simmons, The Penguin, Manzetti's, Cuisine Malaya, Leo's Deli, The Roasting Company, House of Pizza, and K&W Cafeteria!
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