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Rainravens - Garden Rocket
- Garden Rocket, by Rainravens, is best described as a country acoustic rock album. It has slow songs that will wrench your heartstrings and upbeat ones that will make you toss away your cares and get on the dance floor.
“Good Luck Charm” has light-hearted acoustic guitar play throughout with drum work mixed in. There is tender harmonizing in the background as the vocalist muses that he isn’t someone who stays in one place for long, but eventually he will come back home, with lyrics like, “Stick around, stick around. I can’t stick around…Got a story I ain’t got time to tell. Gone for good, gone for good, I won’t be gone for good. Just listen for that old high lonesome sound. When you hear that train I’ll be comin’ back around.” The chorus does have harmonica work which adds to the downhome feel.
“Ruby” is the quintessential song about a woman with whom the vocalist is infatuated. The intro has harmonica and drum work that is harder than the previous track. This might symbolize the angst he feels toward the subject of the song. As is the formula for such songs, the woman has done the vocalist wrong, but he cannot stop loving her, as he croons such lyrics as, “Ruby is my was my ain’t my baby no more. She broke my heart like it ain’t broke before. I loved that girl, she never treated me right. Wonder where she is tonight. I been long gone I been a fool since the first time I saw Ruby at the swimming hole.” It seems the vocalist was smitten the first time he saw Ruby and even though she played with his emotions, he cannot seem to erase her from his heart.
On “Highway Prayer,” there is little instrumentation outside of the acoustic guitar play. The intro is reminiscent of the 1994 Richard Marx hit, “Now and Forever,” with its slow and precise strumming. The band is in the background harmonizing in low voices, almost brooding, as the vocalist sings contradictory lyrics about his home town, such as, “Don’t take me back…Spent my whole life tryin’ to get somewhere. Oh oh take me back there. Don’t take me back there where I’m from. Loneliness all that I recall. Drink the water, couldn’t breathe the air. Oh oh take me back there.” This song could be one in a motion picture where the main character is vacillating if he or she should return to their roots and could touch the souls of many listeners who share a similar dilemma.
Garden Rocket, from Rainravens, has straightforward tracks that speak clearly and succinctly to listeners. The band lays their intentions and feelings for all to see, and listeners will enjoy hearing their thoughts broadcasted in song.
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Added: 6-May-2007
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