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Influences
your temple right above your beard, color-blindness, people-all of em, cold toes, good food made by people who love you, trees, piano tuners, seven seas, birds, strings, family, and mostly-Love, deep and true love, shallow stones under water love, love like a fire, love like a hurricane, love like a soft warm breath...
The Beatles, Ani DiFranco, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, The Band, Woody Guthrie, Dar Williams, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Chris Thile, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli, Dan Bern, Janis Joplin, Patty Griffin, Chopin, Radiohead, my camp counselor Heather, Alex Grey, CSNY, Meredith Cushing, Frida Kahlo, The Lovin Spoonful, John Hartford, Rickie Lee Jones, Jeff Buckley, Dave Carter, Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Shakespeare (Sir Francis Bacon), Dr. Suess, Jim Brunberg, Wilco, The Andrews Sisters, Dolly Parton, The Grateful Dead, Greg Brown, John Prine, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Josh Ritter, Jim Henson, Rumi, Hafiz, e.e. cummings, Gary Snyder, Tom Robbins, Mary Oliver, Michael Franti, Stan Rogers, Tim O'Brien, Shawn Colvin, Michael Hedges, Jon Self, Kaki King, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, Fela Kuti, Deb Talan, the Burlingame open mic, Camp Westwind, Camp Nor'wester, the Kerrville Folk Festival and most importantly all the amazing songwriters i get to play with at shows and round late-night whiskey drunk campfires, the musicians i play with who keep me learning, my father and his brothers, my mother, my sister, the shadow and the light.
* Kerrville New Folk Finalist, 2007 * Telluride Troubadour Compettion - honorable mention, 2006 * Raina has played at High Sierra Music Festival in '06 and '07.
Press Quotes
"Raina Rose’s new disc, End of Endless False Starts, features some fine acoustic-guitar picking from this Austin-based artist and, with its rootsy undercurrent, will certainly perk the ears of folk-pop enthusiasts. But its collection of musical novellas is really what sets this album apart from Rose’s singer-songwriter contemporaries, as these 12 stories enrapture the listener from first play."
- L. Bowen, TOP 12 DIY in PERFORMING SONGWRITER MAGAZINE, May '09
"Rose's sprightly vocal delivery and sage wordplay hint at the depth and wisdom of an ageless soul"
- Dan Bolles, Vermont's weekly entertainment mag, Seven Days
"If more clarification is needed, try this one: On the same day I received End of Endless False Starts I also received the mucho hyped discs by U2 (No Line On The Horizon) and Van Morrison's Live Astral Weeks. Two weeks later, she's still in my player alongside the new offerings by Neko Case and Eilen Jewell. Those other guys are up on a shelf somewhere."
- Mike Jurkovich, Folk & Acoustic Music ExchangeYou jumped on every song like a cat, broke my heart, made me laugh and I knew that I could brag about you to anyone and feel completely justified..." - Jonathan Byrd
"I never cease to be amazed at the depth of what you're doing Raina" - Nels Andrews"The lovely Raina Rose is the shining light in the up and coming folk scene. Her new release “end of endless false starts” is as beautiful as she is." - Night Flying Publications, Nanny Paddock"If a bottle of champagne could sing, it would sound a lot like Raina Rose: positively effervescent, sparkling with youthful exuberance -- she's a joy." - Tracy Grammer"Her voice is clear and sweet.... Suffice to say, this moth has taken wing." - Marty Hughley, Entertainment Editor, the Oregonian"The fact of the matter is that, like Paul Simon after Simon and Garfunkle, Raina Rose has the strength to stand alone, performing music she's written, and her audiences will sit up and take notice." - Linsel Greene, NW music scene blogger"There goes the Courtney Love of folk music!" - Multi-instrumentalist Joel Tepp [after meeting me for the first time while i was riding on a luggage cart drinking whiskey out of a flask i had in my boot at a Folk Alliance conference]."There has to be space for hope somewhere in there. And Raina Rose, her tongue not-so-firmly in cheek, is a mischievous tease who enlightens you without insulting your intelligence. Her music is joyful, buoyant, exhilarating, and radically silly. It's smart, grin-inducing artistry that's thankfully grounded in the real world." - Dr. Scott's Pulp Culture blogIn My Own Words ... i am an aquarius, aquarius rising with a gemini moon. I was born the day the music died (that's february 3rd). i love the pacific ocean more than just about anything in the world, except for maybe music. maybe i love them the same. i try to be at home wherever i am, but i am still learning that trick. when i was a wee girl, i wanted to be a rock star, a hair stylist, and a truck driver, and i've gotten to do all of that, so now i'm trying to figure out why i do the things i do. i tend to make generalizations about myself, only to feel guilty when i break them. i am confidently insecure. i am a leaf borne upon the wind. i believe in love and i know we are all made of love. i don't like myself when i am drunk. i love myself always, this is a new thing. i try not to be afraid of the immense creative power we all get to tap into when we want. I write songs because i have no other way of expressing my actual emotions. i am becoming more and more free and less and less encumbered. i think you're so beautiful. the first guitar i bought myself is blue, and her name is Babe the Blue Axe. i really like tea. i used to smoke a lot of green. now i don't. music has saved my life on many occasions. i only date musicians, and that is why my mother and sister think i am crazy. my father is a musician. i love you lots and lots and don't ever doubt it. i dig change and crisis, because they open the world up to brave new adventures. i am so blessed. My favorite movie is The Dark Crystal. My favorite foods are watermelon and avocado, but not together. i am overwhelmed by the beauty in the world every single second of every day. i am prone to ramble in prose. my real name is raina rose klein mcclellan. small children call me Waina. i am learning how to stand up for myself. i fall in love way too easily. i fall out of love way too easily. i'm learning how to believe that i deserve what i want. i make a huge effort to communicate using correct grammer. i want to come back in my next life as a seabird so i can swim and fly. if you hurt my feelings, i will try my best not to hurt yours back. i love ethiopian food. i am making generalizations about myself right now...shit.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Raina, i find myself in a most unfortunate situation. you're playing gigs all the time in Austin while i'm in Seattle, and then when i move to Austin in January, you're going back to the Pacific NW! the irony is killing me.
i hope that someday our schedules will synchronize, but until then, your music is both beautiful and inspiring.
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Metal Greetings from Texas..... Just letting everyone know that the INB's full length Bastards Forest cd is available for free download at www.mp3.com/inbreed we are also on twitter www.twitter.com/inbreed665 Thanks again, rock on and have a killer week!!!! Jason/INBREED
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