From: 29 July 2008
To: 29 July 2008
The Village, South Fort St, 8 pm, £8.00.
Rachel Harrington has been doing things in the wrong order for quite some time. She had extensive radio play before performing her first live show, and she opened for Grammy winners and nominees before her debut full-length record was even a glimmer in her eye. Reared among the Pentecostal pines of Oregon, Harrington’s rural gospel roots shone through on her 2004 living room demo. That humble four-song EP spent 13 weeks on the AMA chart and garnered the Seattle siren stellar reviews. By 2006, Rachel was touring with her songwriting hero, Guy Clark, winning national songwriting awards, and performing at large festivals. Her debut CD, The Bootlegger’s Daughter features some of the Northwest’s finest musicians, and co-produced with two-time Grammy winner Garey Shelton. The cd hit 1 on the Euro-Americana Chart, and climbed into the Top 40 on the Americana Music Association’s radio chart in the US. Rachel is joined by multi-instrumentalist Zak Borden (a solid songwriter in his own right) on vocals, mandolin, guitar and various other weapons of mass destruction.