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Happy Rhodes - Find Me

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This is a fan/friend page, and is not maintained by Happy herself. I will pass along messages and remind her to read Comments. - Vickie

FIND ME, Happy's 11th album, and her first since 1998's Many Worlds Are Born Tonight, is now available at CD Baby (see blog for informational note), and iTunes

Sample other songs from the album


If the player above disappears (it comes and goes) you can hear snippets of the other songs at the Song Samples site (just scroll down to the Find Me section).
Happy Rhodes returns after a long absence with Find Me, her latest collection of songs, and it is well worth the wait. Exploring a sound both familiar and new, Happy covers a lot of emotional ground on Find Me. The subject matter ranges from the defiant anthem "She Won't Go", the last thoughts of a dying drowning victim in the title track, the lament of the eternal bridesmaid on "Chosen One" and the sweet tribute to a loved one in "Here and Hereafter."
Happy delivers one of the best songs of her career with the elegant and mesmerizing "Can't Let Go," exploring how the emotional scars of the past can be both a source of inspiration and a curse. The incredible range of her vocal instrument is complimented by a carefully crafted bed of electronics and traditional instruments into a sound that is both unique and incredibly listenable. Nowhere does this seem more apparent than the track "Queen" where she seems to ponder her role as siren to the marginalized, the searching and the broken. Thankfully she seems to be willing to take the mantle, as unwilling as it might be. We'll all continue to be the better for it.
- Jon Wesley Huff

"Charlie" - inspired by Charles Crumb
I can see Charlie
Sitting on his hands
Drowning in his chaos
And formulating plans
If I had stayed that way
(I could have been Charlie)
It would have been me
(Living on meds)
Wishing for a handgun
Or a rope on a sturdy tree
Drawing by Happy Rhodes.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/21/2007
Band Members: Happy Rhodes
Track Listing: 1) One And Many (4:36)
2) Little Brother (4:35)
3) Find Me (5:13)
4) She Won't Go (3:56)
5) Here And Hereafter (4:18)
6) Charlie (4:01)
7) Can't Let Go (5:28)
8) Queen (4:34)
9) Treehouse (6:25)
10) Chosen One (3:45)
11) Fall (4:51)

Influences: Her life
Album Credits: All songs written by
Happy Rhodes

Produced and Recorded by:
Bob Muller at Dangerous Music Studios, NYC

Mixed by:
Mark Owen, assisted by Grayson Elliot Taylor with the exception of "Little Brother" and "She Won't Go," mixed by FAB @ pureMix.net

Mastered by:
Dave Kutch at the Mastering Palace, NYC

Happy Rhodes:
All vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Programming, original artwork

Bob Muller:
Drums, Hand Drums, Percussion, Yang Chin

Hansford Rowe:
Electric Bass on tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10

Teddy Kumpel:
All electric Guitars, plus Tamburica Solo and Acoustic Guitar on track 5

Rob Schwimmer:
Piano

Carl Adami:
Bass on track 9, ostinato on track 11

Jon Catler:
Fretless Electric Guitar solo on track 7

Trey Gunn:
Warr Guitar on track 8

Bon Lozaga:
Electric guitar on track 5

Fab:
Additional programming, string arrangements on tracks 2, 10

Michael Seifert:
Orchestral arrangement on track 7, Additional programmingon track 10

Thanks to:
All the musicians for their generosity and time
Vickie Mapes
Richard Merit
Norm Waitt, Jr.
Mike Delich
The Ectophiles
Nelson Bakerman
Bon and Susan Lozaga
Steve Muller
Chris Muth
Helen Leicht
Sharon Nichols
Robert Bristow Johnson
Charlie Martinez
and
Bob Muller for covering all of his bases in addition to covering mine.
Sounds Like: Fans say her high voice is similar to early Kate Bush, and her low voice calls to mind Annie Lennox or David Bowie.

Other
Happy Rhodes
MySpace
Pages:For those fans looking to put music on their page, here are other Happy Rhodes pages with some more songs.
(Disclaimer: all of them were put up by me)

Record Label: none

My Blog

Find Me **MP3s** now for sale at CD Baby

Update: It would seem that Happy sent the latest batch of Find Me CDs via a slow boat routed through China, because they're not due in to CD Baby until tomorrow, a week after she sent them, then ...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:07:00 GMT

Find Me now on iTunes

You might have to refresh or use the Power Search. It didn't come up for me at first even though I knew it was there because my husband found it on his computer. I had to try a couple of times. If you...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:21:00 GMT

Delicious Agony interview now at the Happy Rarities site

Update: The Delicious Agony interview is now up at my Rarities site. Just scroll down the Table of Contents and you'll see the link. ============================================== The 2-hour special w...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:04:00 GMT

Find Me back in stock at CD Baby

Update November 5, 2007: Find Me is back in stock at CD Baby! As is Many Worlds Are Born Tonight, which has been out of stock for ages. Vickie ================= CD Baby sold all the CDs they had almos...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:42:00 GMT