No Rain, No Rose

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No Rain, No Rose
No Rain No Rose John Craigie.jpg
Cover by Ben Moon
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2017
Genre Folk, indie folk, Americana
Length51:50
Label Zabriskie Point Records
Producer John Craigie
John Craigie chronology
Capricorn in Retrograde...just kidding...Live in Portland
(2016)
No Rain, No Rose
(2017)
Scarecrow
(2018)

No Rain, No Rose is the fifth studio album by folk singer-songwriter John Craigie. [1] [2] It was released on January 27, 2017, and recorded in his living room in Portland, Oregon, with the help of other well-known musicians around Portland such as the Shook Twins and Gregory Alan Isakov. [3] [4] This album describes John Craigie's life as a traveling musician and explores the sense of home that he found in Portland after moving from Los Angeles. [5]

Contents

The comical banter heard within the tracks demonstrate some of the album's influence from Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken . [6] Other influences include The Rolling Stones [7] with the album's folksy cover of "Tumbling Dice".

The title of the album comes from the old Buddhist saying "No mud, no lotus", meaning bad things are necessary in order for good things to happen. [8] John Craigie captures this sentiment throughout the album, and since Portland is the "City of Roses", he symbolizes his hometown as the lotus from the saying, or in other words, one of the 'good things' that has come from hard times. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1Virgin Guitar3:47
2Broken2:55
3Highway Blood4:27
4Rough Johns3:53
5Savannah5:16
6Bucket List Grandmas3:48
7Tumbling Dice5:14
8Michael Collins3:43
9Live with Less3:25
10Light Has Dimmed4:10
11I Am California5:13
12Interlude1:00
13All The Salt4:59

Personnel

Production

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