On the last day of the Mayan Calendar I happened to be on a Greyhound Bus from Nashville to Atlanta. I took notes and later wrote this song...all true stories....only the names have been changed (or should I say, invented). Here I am playing with my band at my 24th Oregon Country Fair performance! Barry Sless (guitar), Tim Randles (keyboards), Brad Cox (drums), Ken Braziel (bass). Ed Mellnik (videography). Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUiYvWUb_YY&feature=share&list=PL-TL7Lh8NZN-a3OHp2rnMG7va1mavSiKg / video collage link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0pujwsekxA&feature=share&list=PL-TL7Lh8NZN-a3OHp2rnMG7va1mavSiKg

Greyhound Rapture, Live @ Oregon Country Fair 2013

performed by Joanne Rand (vocals & guitar), Tim Randles (bass), 
recorded by Tim Gray (Myrtletown Records), recorded & mixed by Piet Dalmolen (Universal Balance Studios) Dec. 2013, 

AULD LANG SYNE, -Joanne Rand

Stay Awhile 
©2023, Joanne Rand, Homefire Productions, BMI
All songs written, arranged, and produced by Joanne Rand.
Mix production by Stephen Hart, Two Rock Digital, Petaluma, CA
Recorded at Universal Balance Studios, Piet Dalmolen, Arcata, CA. 
Joanne Rand (piano, acoustic guitar, vocals), Tim Randles (Bass), Piet Dalmolen (electric guitar), Rob Diggins (violin), Greg King (photo).
Thanks to Stephen Hart for 30 years of exquisite creative collaboration! 
Thanks to all the musicians, to Piet, & to my family for their love & support.

Song Order
1.	Wanna Come Home	3:33
2.	Up All Night		4:35
3.	Yo Heave Ho		3:32
4.	Take Me back		4:02
5.	DNA Song		5:14
6.	Yellow Roses		2:29
7.	Homefire		4:36
8.	Slow			4:56
	TT			33min
Come in, "Stay Awhile" and listen to some tunes:
These songs are written for you, in response to the swirl of changes around us. Changes (personal, political and world change) are the inspiration for these songs and my attempt to help our world slow down, find its balance, and "reclaim its humanity." I write because it is my form of coping, my therapeutic affirmation. Thanks for listening!
Wanna Come Home (pop folk)
I woke up from a spotlight dream early in the pandemic, jumped out of bed and wrote this song. It just spilled out all at once.
Up All Night (classical, folk)
I wrote this song this year when my Dad, he's 99, had to spend the night all alone in the hospital and I was unable to get to him. I stayed up all night with a candle and wrote this song.
Take Me Back (country folk)
This song came out of frustration with the way this country is being torn apart and a desire to see us unified. Thinking back on the world I grew up in (last century).
DNA Song (classical, alternative)
I wrote the lyrics to this song during three separate long hikes into the same ancient redwood grove, literally writing as I was hiking back out during the setting sun. Each time I returned, I'd write more verses. The melody was "given" to me by the trees themselves.
Yellow Roses (Spanish style)
This song was written several years ago for my sister. Never published or performed, it's has stuck with me through the years, and I included it here at the urging of my daughter. It's her all time favorite.
Homefire (spiritual folk love song)
This song was cowritten with my first husband in 1986, and has served as a spiritual hearth for me all of my adult life. "Keeping the homefire burning." Homefire is the name of my label.
Yo Heave Ho (Sea shanty)
A song about the cycle of life and the desire to last forever! I wrote it while hiking by the sea. When sang it to my mom (she's 97) at her kitchen table, she cheered every time I got to the chorus.
Slow (Meditative)
I wrote this song in 1982 when I quit my traditional "career path" and moved to a remote farm in SW Colorado to be a singer-songwriter. I'd wake at dawn and watch the red-gold sun rise over the mesa. This song surfaced again for me during the long covid quarantine, as life slowed down immensely. I find that I like the slower, simpler pace.

06 Homefire

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https://joannerand.bandcamp.com/album/southern-girl-2

The genesis for this song is a midnight conversation with my teenaged daughter about what makes us feel most alive and in-the-moment/ in-the-eye-of-the-needle. She said for her it is jumping into the cold ocean.... it was after watching The Great Gatsby. (It ends with that line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past.") This is a cheer, an anthem to help us find that moment, the eye of the needle, and ride it.
lyrics
LIFE IS AN ENDLESS LIST OF THINGS TO DO
BUT DON’T LET IT MAKE YOU
SAD AND BLUE

CAUSE NOTHING IS EVER GONNA GET BETTER UNLESS YOU TRY
SO HERE’S MUD IN YOUR EYE
GO FIND THE PRIME IN LIFE

BEEN ADDICTED TO CHANGE ALL MY LIFE
I’VE USED IT TO REARRANGE ALL MY DOUBT
TILL I FIND OUT…
---
HEAR THAT CRAZY ENGINE ROAR
I’VE BEEN RUNNING HARD
I FORGET WHAT FOR

RUNNING TOWARDS A GREEN LIGHT
SPITTING OUT THE PIECES
OF MY FRIGHT

BEEN ADDICTED TO CHANGE ALL MY LIFE
I’VE USED IT TO REARRANGE ALL MY DOUBT
TILL I FIND OUT…
---
TOO MANY THOUGHTS INSIDE MY HEAD
SPLINTERED IN A MILLION SHARDS I SAID:
I CAN’T GET NO SWEET RELIEF

I GOT NO AXE TO GRIND
JUST GOING SLOWLY OUT OF MY MIND
SOMEBODY PLEASE RESCUE ME

EYE OF THE NEEDLE EYE OF GOD
GOTTA REMEMBER WHAT MAKES LIFE GOOD
JUMP IN THE OCEAN, PLAY ON THE SANDY BEACH
credits
from Southern Girl, released August 26, 2015
• Joanne Rand- Acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboard, clarinet (Monkey Puzzle Tree, LA Squirrel), shaker • Bradley Dee- Drums & percussion (Cripple Creek, Thicker than Water, LA Squirrel, I Love It) • Jonathan Kipp- Drums (Mud in Your Eye, Monkey Puzzle Tree, Maid of Constant Sorrow, Ginseng Sullivan, Red Rose) • Tim Randles- Electric Bass, keyboard (Woodstock) • Piet Dalmolen- Electric & slide Guitars • Rob Diggins- Violin © &P 2015, Joanne Rand, Homefire Productions, BMI
•Produced by Joanne Rand with Stephen Hart & Piet Dalmolen. •Mixed & mastered by Stephen Hart (Two Rock Digital, Petaluma, CA) •Recorded & pre-Mixed by Piet Dalmolen (Universal Balance Studios, Arcata, CA) •All songs by Joanne Rand except: Cripple Creek & Maid of Constant Sorrow (traditional), Red Rose (lyrics by Robert Burns, melody traditional Scottish), Woodstock (Joni Mitchell, SONY ATV Tunes LLC OBO Siquomb Publishing), the Monkey-Puzzle Tree (lyrics Jordan Rand) & Ginseng Sullivan (Norman Blake, Blake & Blake Music)
license
all rights reserved

Mud In Your Eye, Joanne Rand

This song woke me up at 5:00AM to be written. It is about the dreams of a child growing through the years. Full CD available at: https://joannerand.bandcamp.com/album/roses-in-the-snow-drought
Produced by: Joanne Rand, Stephen Hart, Piet Dalmolen
Joanne Rand: Vocals, acoustic guitar, bass
Tim Randles: piano
Rob Diggins: violin
Piet Dalmolen: electric guitar/bass
www.JoanneRandMusic.com

Roses In The Snow & Drought © Joanne Rand 2017

In 1994 this was one of my first international artist remix. Björk had just left her Sugarcubes band to go solo, and she was only mildly know back then. I was commissioned to remix Human Behaviour by Island France who were releasing it domestically. I did 2 sets of mixes and they were grouped on a single promo 12" that was pressed to only 500 copies making it a pretty rare item today. She apparently didn't like the remix much and it stayed commercially unreleased. Luckily for me, I had a chance meeting with David Morales at the time and gave him 2 copies. Months later I was told he and DEF mix partner Frankie Knuckles were killing it in the NY clubs. Thanks to them my name got out of France and it kickstarted my carreer outside of my country.

Björk  - Human Behaviour Dimitri From Paris Underground Behaviour Remix 1994

You don't have to

Written and performed by Robynne Calvert 2011

You Don't Have To- Robynne Calvert (Original)

from "Stories from the Inside Out (Nashville Sessions)", ©2013  Joanne Rand
Purchase a download at: http://joannerand.bandcamp.com/track/torch-of-freedom

Written, Arranged & produced by Joanne Rand. Mix Production: by Stephen Hart (Two Rock Digital, Petaluma, CA). Recorded: In a private studio in Nashville, TN. Additional recording: Piet Dalmolen (Universal Balance Studios, Arcata, CA).

Vocals guitar, Joanne Rand; Piano & bass, Tim Randles

Torch of Freedom

Band
Gabe Piolo - Vocals/Acoustic
Drums - Ive VIllanueva
Bass - Harrold Go
Keyboards - Ryan Goan
Electric Guitar - Makko Abreu and John Apura

For gig updates and other stuff you can go to these pages:
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Lyrics:

Verse
These days have been rough
where everything felt flat
green lights turn red
there's no time for me to catch up

These days were crazy
maybe i was just too lazy
six feet under the ground
holding on to what ever i find

Pre Chorus
no wonder why
you ended up
in this paper i am holding onto
see the dead end ahead?
i'm not convinced 
that you are who you are

Chorus
Throw me all of your lies
still i know that i'll be fine
falling colors behind 
you are not who you are
throw me all of your lies 
still i know that i'll be fine
cause i know, cause i know

Verse 2
These days have been rough
where gravity's pulling me down
in a blink of an eye
next thing i know you are gone
These days were crazy
nothing you said was easy
six feet under the ground
holding onto whatever i find

These Days (Demo)

Words and music by Jordan Rand (1953-1994)
Performance and arrangement by Joanne Rand
© 1997, Joanne Rand, Homefire Productions, BMI

Southend Story

Kickstart Rand's 16th CD@ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joannerand/launch-joanne-rands-16th-cdroses-in-the-snow-and-d

Touring nationally for thirty years, Joanne Rand "continues to push the art pedal to the floor," NOW mixing her 15th CD of original songs, "Southern Girl." "Stories from the Inside Out," released in 2013 was recorded during her 2012 musical apprenticeship with a master in the U.S. music capital. Rand has appeared with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Weir, John Hartford, and recently earned a BFA in Music Composition. Rand’s 2010 CD release was submitted for Grammy nomination by San Francisco Recording Academy’s President.  You can't keep this woman down, her last five CDs were released in the past five consecutive years and she continues to tour the U.S. "Whatever muse inspires Rand only seems to grow stronger with time" - Eugene Weekly.
            Writing and playing music since childhood in the Deep South, Rand cut her performance teeth playing bluegrass in Alaska and spun musical magic with natives in the Amazon. She spent six formative years touring from her remote homestead in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, fully launching her career in California’s North Bay Area, where she remains revered as one of the region’s finest independent artists. A North Bay Bohemian readers’ poll voted her “Best Acoustic Band,” and calls Rand a “legendary…longtime local hero.”  In the 1990s Rand helped anchor Seattle's thriving music scene, collaborating with her songwriter brother, during his last years of life. Residing now in Arcata, CA, with her family, Rand teaches music, and continues to tour. 

PRESS QUOTES

•	“Excellent voice - spot on arrangement” - Solent Records, U.K. 
•	" her delivery and ability to fill a room with emotion, as if she is delivering a private performance directly to your heart, make her shows very special. Book this woman, she's fantastic." –M.Nassar concert producer, 2012
•	“Grab an umbrella…soak in a true talent.”-Weekly Volcano, Olympia, WA, 2012
•	“A 22 caliber pistol with a 45 caliber slug in it” –Joel Tepp (Bonnie Raitt side man) 2012
•	"celebrated musician, composer and teacher. From stripped-down folk songs to lush, textured rock arrangements, she makes consistently engaging, perceptive, universal music." -SFStation.com, 2011
•	“Through her songs, Rand traverses love, politics, conservation, spirituality and life with a seasoned-to-perfection voice, that, according to Terry Tempest Williams, ‘Opens the doors of creation’.” -Santa Cruz Weekly, 2010
•	 “Thank you for being so good” –Janis Ian
•	“Great stories, deep feeling.” –George Winston
•	“Rand’s voice raises your hair, elegance and fierceness in the same deep breath” –Gary Snyder
•	“Angels walk among us” –Patti Cathcart (Tuck and Patti)
•	 “Rand Radiates rejuvenation” -Dirty Linen Magazine

06 Homefire

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