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RACHEL WILL RISE

by David Heavenor

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RACHEL WILL RISE

When I was learning guitar back in the day I would often go to concerts and come back buzzing to play songs I'd heard ( e.g. Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen) and sometimes motivated to write as if something was transferred in the experience.

This hasn't happened for a long time until I went to see Rachel Ries playing in the members' room at The Arlington Baths in Glasgow in April 2015.(Sounds of the Suburbs promotion). She was last on a bill of three (Zoe Graham and Jenn Grant ). Various elements seemed to coalesce into a song. She played an electric guitar but it was amplified through a tiny amp or speaker creating a sound very reminiscent of Joni Mitchell's sound when she used an electric guitar but still had the acoustic feel. (an electrical light through a string under strain); she was devastatingly honest in talking about songwriting and travelling and her search for meaning in her life.

I found myself thinking of so many people who have chosen this life of constant travel, which I see so much working in a music venue, but there's some miraculous interchange between audience and artist which feeds some profound thing on both sides.

Throughout the evening somehow the image stuck of someone shaking off a false image or people or a situation that hold you back from being true to yourself. Then working on the song I remembered a Bob Fox and Stu Luckley Song 'Canny at Neet' a traditional song from the North East of England so these verses crept in and seemed at home.

Her album is called Ghost of a Gardener with the song Ghost whose cover is a 'an explosion of flowers.' these two images also cropping up in the song .Rachel told me she booked her own gigs and we discussed Joni Mitchell's early career when she did exactly that. So the song is really about any number of songwriter's who somehow open that magical door through music to 'the deeper meaning.'

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RACHEL WILL RISE


So still in the room and Rachel will rise
A song in her hands, a ghost in her eyes
A restless release, a haunting refrain
For she’s got no one to hide behind again


The story will break, a meaning will rise
A shadow will dart through the rose in her eye
An electrical light through a string under strain
For she’s got no one to hide behind again


A world to explore, a fate under stress
An explosion of flowers on a pale cotton dress
Step onto the bus, no need to explain
That she’s got no one to hide behind again


The sheep’s in the meadow, the kye in the corn
A bird in the nest, the trout in the burn
Canny at neet, bonny at morn
And she’s got no one to hide behind again


A sister in song, a brother in verse
Heal me of my ache, cure me of my curse
Fashion my heart, imprint on my brain
For I’ve got no one to hide behind again.

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released April 18, 2015

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David Heavenor is a Scottish singer songwriter based in Edinburgh Scotland. He has produced 8 albums plus 3 EP's.

I'm Watching Rosanna. ' An insightful song....beautifully written and observed. Iain Anderson. BBC Radio

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