Member Since: 6/17/2005
Band Website: www.rainarose.com" rainarose.com
Band Members: jus' me.
Influences: the way the rise of a hill looks like the hip of a woman, your temple-right above your beard, color-blindness, people on buses and trains airplanes and elevators-captives of those who'll start stranger conversations, cold toes, good food made by people who love you, trees that speak to you in soft poems if you listen with ear of a piano tuner, birds-anything with wings, 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, Dar Williams, The Band, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Janis Joplin, Chris Thile, all the amazing songwriters i get to play with at shows and round campfires, Woody Guthrie, my camp counselor Heather, Alex Grey's art, CSNY, Meredith Cushing, Frida Kahlo, The Lovin Spoonful, John Hartford, Rickie Lee Jones, Jeff Buckley, Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Shakespeare (Sir Francis Bacon), Dr. Suess, Jim Brunberg, Jim Henson, Rumi, Hafiz, e.e. cummings, Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, Michael Franti, my father and his un-ending musical knowledge and his brothers, my mother-her poems & her handwriting, my sister-her caring & fierce intelligence, Michael Hedges, the Burlingame open mic, camp Westwind, camp Nor'wester, the Kerrville Folk Festival!!, Jon Self, Kaki King, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, Fela Kuti, Deb Talan, the shadow & the light, & everyone out there doin it.
Sounds Like: listen...
god bless with Green Mountain Grass
Me and John Elliott (a.k.a. The Hereafter)!
this is me with the Everyone Orchestra at High Sierra Music Festival 2007
this is part two where i get kinda wild...
john elliott, anthony da costa, and me!
press quotes:
"Portland native Raina Rose is everything a young female folksinger should be. If occasionally a touch too naive or overreaching in her eagerness to express a surfeit of emotion, she's always so sincere, sweet and disarmingly goofy and such a heckuva singer that one instantly forgives such transgressions with a grin. 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. Next week, she heads to Texas' Kerrville Folk Festival as a finalist in their renowned New Folk contest."
-JEFF ROSENBERG, Willamette Week, May '07
"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
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"Gravity" won't reshape anyone's thinking about the possibilities of singer-songwriter folk/pop, but it could confirm your feelings about the simple pleasures of the form. ...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 blog
Record Label: Threepin Records
Type of Label: None