Album Notes

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With a personal and often autobiographical honesty, yet with enough universal imagery to broaden the emotional impact, Perry fits neatly into no particular genre but has an immediate appeal. Musically, her song craft encompasses folk, country and pop, and gray areas between, to suit the spin of a particular song.

Such strengths helped earn Perry her first notable success when Tom Russell covered the song “Yosemite” in 2003, with Nanci Griffith. It was the winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, among other songwriting awards. Of the song--and its creator--Russell said: “It slapped my heart around like a good song should…watch out for Rain Perry. She writes with her heart, and she’ll blindside you with her art.”

Rain is the product of a restlessly creative lineage: her mother was a songwriter, whose song “Kind of a Woman” was cut by Nancy Sinatra, and who separated from Rain’s free-spirited screenwriter father, became a born again Christian and then died at the age of 27. Rain went on to be raised by her itinerant, proudly counterculture father.

In her early 20s, Rain was afflicted by Rheumatoid Arthritis and was forced to retreat from music for a spell, devoting herself to raising children and other non-musical modes of expression. But her musical muse wouldn’t let her be. The results on her upcoming album show the freshness and the maturity of her vision.