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"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, winning fans throughout the US. "Joanne Randıs 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 nationally and recording ever since, weaving her life into her work: from the loss of her brother (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, as well as indigenous songs and chants, 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. In 2002 she was proclaimed Sebastopol, CA's Official Folk Singer by the city Mayor.
With the release of her latest CD, Into the River, Rand is moving back to the Siskiyou Mountains, 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.
Accolades
"Inspires praise usually reserved for healers
and saints."
-Santa Cruz Good Times Jan. 17, 2002
"Joanne Rand's singing raises your hair - elegance and fierceness in the same deep breath."
-Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
Exquisite new music. {Her} voice opens the doors of creation."
-Terry Tempest Williams, Author
"Grace and responsiveness flow from her keyboard and intimate voice like fountains, Rand radiates rejuvenation."
-Dirty Linen Magazine, 2000
"Rand plays with a homespun strength...a passion and a grace that is quite distinctive...At times, she brings an Appalachian trill to her ballads; at other times, she'll take her voice down low to a throaty gritty moan."
-Santa Cruz "Good Times" Pick of the Week, 1999
"Joanne is an open book. The kind of book that you just can't put down. At least until the next volume comes out."
-Talking Leaves Magazine 1999
"Great stories and deep feelings!"
-George Winston
"Nothing short of brilliant. Richly talented."
-Santa Rosa Press Democrat
"Electrifying"
-Matrix Magazine
"Lullabies to the universe in a sweetly compelling combination of DRIVE and LOVE."
-Anthem Magazine, 1996
"Gorgeous voice. This woman's voice will take your breath away. Her lyrics are passionately expressive of an absolute commitment to EARTH and WILDNESS."
-Ladyslipper Music Catalogue, 1993
"Joanne Rand's voice is nothing short of fabulous. She's a storyteller as much as a singer in the old troubadour tradition,"
-Sonoma County Women's Voices.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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