Into The River

Joanne Rand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 21, 2002)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Homefire Productions
• ASIN: B000088NJ2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #731,703 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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 Rand‚s 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 Rand‚s singing raises your hair ˆ elegance and fierceness in the same deep breath." ˆGary Snyder. "Her singing inspires praise usually reserved for healers and saints" ˆ 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.