Wishing Well CD release October 10! "Radiate" receiving airplay on 92.9 daveFM!! Buy Less Asleep, now on sale in seven Atlanta record stores, CD Baby AND iTunes! In Decatur/Emory area: Decatur CD, Ella Guru, and Wuxtry. In Little Five Points, Wax n Facts and Criminal. In Candler Park, Full Moon Records. And in Tucker: Circle Sky. The album features Columbia recording artist Brandon Bush (Train, Sugarland).
"One
of the most appealing female singers to emerge from the Atlanta area in
recent years has to be the relatively unheralded Lindsay Rakers. With a
sweet, girl-next-door personality and a knack for penning irresistibly
catchy tunes, she radiates a warmth and sincerity in her voice that
calms your innards and makes you wanna kiss strangers and give to
charity. Supported by an accomplished but pleasantly non-flashy band,
Rakers dwells in conventional pop-rock with slight country undertones
that, interestingly, shine stronger when the band plays live, when they
almost come across like a spunkier version of Sugarland. Only they're
good! Hunt down their excellent, newly-minted CD, Less Asleep, and see
if you concur."
-uncommonly warm and fuzzy words from Jeff Clark of Stomp and Stammer
"Her cut-to-the-chase demeanor and clear-eyed narratives make the Lindsay Rakers Band's live shows and debut album, Less Asleep,
intimate and highly caffeinated experiences. The exuberant Rakers says
she truly enjoys the artist-to-audience exchange. 'I like to know
people and I like people to know about me, and that's why I love making
music,' she says."
-Full text of this great L.V. Smith review here in Creative Loafing
Less Asleep also received a flattering review in The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Lindsay
Rakers has been making up songs and singing them to anyone who'd listen
since she was a toddler, but now she's touching deeper subjects than
her runaway cat (who never came back). She began fronting bands at the
age of 17, when she started playing dive bars with her First Little
High School Band in Pittsburgh, PA. Since moving to Atlanta, she has
become quite at home with the music scene. She has frequented the open
mic circuit as a solo artist, hosted her own open mics, played at Music
Midtown and made her way around the original music club circuit. She
was a weekly feature on 92.9 FM for much of 2003. The Lindsay Rakers
Band played the main stage of Dogwood Festival in 2007, Decatur
Concerts on the Square in 2007 and 2008, and Decatur Arts Fest and
Atlanta Downtown Fest in 2008. The members of LRB just love to play,
and it shows in their energetic live performance.
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