Into the River

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Rand's best work yet. A songwriting tour de force that sets the bar for the new millennium's musical examinations of family, love, fear, faith and the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. With sirenic voice and a mastery of guitar and piano, and a treasure trove of talented backup musicians, Rand takes the listener on a buoyant and rhythmic musical journey that keeps us on our toes, always moving, changing, breathing, dancing, ultimately leaving us with hope and joy. Recorded and mixed in the historic Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, on a nine foot Steinway grand piano, the album is produced by tried-and-true team of nine years: Rand and Stephen Hart (Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Bonnie Raitt).

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Once upon a time a pigtailed kid with a big stick stood on a Georgia Mountaintop, singing the birds right out of the trees. At sixteen she began a big zigzag all over this country and beyond: Florida, London, Chicago, Santa Fe, Alaska, the Amazon. Then she hit the Pacific Northwest and a certain wild river captured her heart.

To this river is dedicated Joanne Rands seventh self-produced album. Into the River is all about claiming your life, diving from the head into the heart. "Dive in! The river is yours, the river is now, river of life." In an age of uncertainty, Rand evokes the human values of love, compassion and courage.

During the late 1980s this same river gave Rand the guts to come out as a radical singer songwriter, capturing hearts throughout the US. "Joanne Rands singing raises your hair elegance and fierceness in the same deep breath." Gary Snyder. "Her singing inspires praise usually reserved for healers and saints" Santa Cruz Good Times 2002. She has been performing internationally and recording ever since, weaving her life into her work: from the loss of her brother to AIDS (songwriter, Jordan Rand, whose songs grace her albums), to the birth of her daughter, Georgia. Rand, whose style has been dubbed Psychedelic-Folk-Revival and Acoustic Ritual spins songs of transformation and grassroots power. From audiences of 60,000 to personal appearances for hospice patients, weddings and birthing mothers, Rand moves hearts along a wide spectrum of human existence.

With roots in classical piano, gospel and the politico-folk-rock music of her youth, Rand's career has included performances with Bonnie Raitt, Richie Havens, Janis Ian and members of the former Grateful Dead. During the 1990s Rand anchored Seattle's hometown music scene. At the same time Rand's quartet was voted Best Acoustic Band in Sonoma County by a California reader's poll. With the release of her latest CD, Rand is returning to claim as home the wild river that has fed her soul for almost twenty years and the wildness that sparked her as a kid on a mountaintop.

Number of Discs: 1

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