Album Notes

Americana singer/songwriter Billy Random delivers warm & chiming acoustic-based songs with passionate writing and vocals. For immediate gratification: www.myspace.com/billyrandom2

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With this EP, Billy has crafted an Americana/folk-rock and alt. country, all-acoustic set, though the drums & bass on two of the selections leave no doubt of his rocking roots. Billy's vocals, guitar and harmonica are joined by Laura Kass' fiddle. Tim Luce appears on bass, harmony vocals, and yes, sleigh bells.

Journalist Hank Rosenfeld, also an ex-jock at New York's WXRU and San Francisco's KSAN, calls "Snowtime," "sweet and open and heartfelt and lovely," and lauds it's "Pastoral lyrics."

In "Do You See Her Now," 'crash and burn Jane' miraculously comes back from being the town joke to being it's saving grace; and "Rainbirds," with it's slide guitars and harmonica, is no less a work of nature than the little story it observes.

Billy Random has been tagged by the press for his writing and recordings as well as live solo appearances on both coasts, and a long series of crowded L.A. shows with The Mayflower Slaves:

"Ferocious as an AK-47, loving as a prayer" Lance Loud, Exposure Magazine

"Arresting, heartfelt, lyrical...should not be missed" Tomm Carroll, Copley Newspapers

"Touching...written and performed with vibrancy." Goldmine Magazine

"Passionate and fiercely original" Santa Monica Bay News

"Thought provoking lyrics...intense and intelligent" LA Weekly

"Smart, catchy...works like gangbusters." Tony Peyser, Santa Monica Mirror

"...Sweet and open and heartfelt and lovely. Pastoral lyrics..." Hank Rosenfeld, Santa Monica Sun.
(Journalist and rock historian Hank,(as Henry Rosebuds,)has had a long, seminal career as on-air personality for KSAN, San Francisco, and WXRK in NYC.


Again, Hank Rosenfeld on RAINBIRDS:
"Comes on strong, I like all the guitars...great harmonies at the tail end and great title too...'I think they love each other!'"

Produced by Tim Luce
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