Corinne West and Rachel Harrington

Genres: Americana , Country

Description

There’s power in Corinne West’s voice. It aches and soars and has a velvet and grit electrical charge. And when she wraps it around songs, something special happens.

Corinne’s interest in music with a story was sparked by her grandfather who taught her to two-step in honky-tonks when she was 11; and futher informed by an array of adventures when she left home to travel across America on a converted school bus at 15 guitar in hand and wonderlust in full force. That nomadic journey with a cast of artists and activists led her to the creative musical road she now travels.

As a songwriter Corinne brings a subtle and sophisticated pen to her own hybrid of acoustic music ~ roots, rock, folk, and progressive country with a sprinkle of blues. From soulful ballads to hard driving road tales, laments to liberations, she evokes artists as wide ranging as Natalie Merchant and Johnny Cash, while crafting a sound and vision uniquely her own.

For more information, visit http://www.corinnewest.com

For Audio clips: http://corinnewest.com/music.php

Reared among the Pentecostal pines of Oregon, Rachel Harrington has been doing things in the wrong order for quite some time She'd had extensive radio play before performing her live show, and she was opening for Grammy winners and nominees before releasing her first record. Now, hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2007 debut, The Bootlegger's Daughter, Rachel presents City Of Refuge.  Filled with characters seeking respite, escape or salvation, City Of Refuge farms personal and mythical stories from the American West, including tales inspired by the memoirs of prostitutes during the Alaska Gold Rush, the cantankerous Harry Truman of Mt. St. Helens, and short story writer (and fellow Oregonian) Raymond Carver. No wonder Performing Songwriter Magazine has called Harrington, "The right combination of temerity and twang."

For more information, visit www.rachelharrington.net