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Rand Reynolds : Patient Master
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Unsettling Hillbilly Noir music of dark themes and dead on big guitar sounds.
Genre: Rock: Roots Rock
Release Date: 2007
Patient Master Record Label: RescueDisk recordings
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Patient Master 4:53 Album Only
The Mountain 4:26 Album Only
It's a Town 2:43 Album Only
Cadillac 3:58 Album Only
Bathsheba Baby 4:39 Album Only
Anger anger 4:30 Album Only
First Frost 4:40 Album Only
Steam 4:32 Album Only
Blonde 3:16 Album Only
Black and Blue 4:00 Album Only
Black Cat Bone 5:12 Album Only
Snuff 3:29 Album Only
Everything but 3:29 Album Only
Thorn 3:09 Album Only
Deadeye Dick 4:11 Album Only
CottonLand 3:05 Album Only
Love -- Today 2:34 Album Only
End My Life 3:42 Album Only
2 Yawning Waitresses 3:13 Album Only
Hunt 4:48 Album Only
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Album Notes

Indiana's uncompromising singer/songwriter Rand Reynolds has hurled his Hillbilly Noir format furiously forward with yet another cd that is successfully ambitious in its scope, and may well be an aesthetic watermark for this new and, obviously, driven artist. Patient Master, with its underlying menace and desolate overtones, is frightening, revelatory, and is clearly carved from Reynolds' own clear visions and startling observations. This is a work that speaks...no, screams volumes. As Reynolds says, "The characters are all prisoners of their vices: Strippers, dope fiends, alcoholics, serial killers, wife beaters, washed up country singers, finger pointers, generic sinners and saints who just kept on trying -- they all know their masters are patient, unrelenting and, at times, disguised." Patient Master is deeply resonant, powerful and profoundly unsettling. (All song previews and lyrics are on Reynolds' website.)

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REVIEWS

Patient Master
author: William E Handy Jr
Rand Reynolds seems intent on keeping his side of the street clean and clearing away the wreckage of his past. This is a man who is not afraid to admit what he did wrong, and then make public gut-wrenching amends through his music. You will hear brutal honesty similar to Johnny Cash’s pleadings near the end of his life. Every song that Rand Reynolds records seems to be an invitation to witness a past disaster or share in a future hope in Rand’s life. Sometimes I feel like he’s making a deep confession and it’s me listening behind the screen. Other times I feel he is asking me to watch his back and bolster his courage. His guitar playing is unrestrained with emotional timing shifts, changes in intensity and muscular bending of notes. His playing is in honest partnership with his vocal skills… You will experience firsthand the raw emotion that Rand Reynolds is so bravely putting down. Rand has already produced an impressive body of work. After becoming familiar with all of it, I am amazed at the consistent brutal honesty and high emotional content.
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