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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 iTunesSample 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.