Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
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Paul Rishell and Annie Raines are a country blues
-inspired musical duo. They met in 1993 during the recording of Paul Rishell's album Swear to Tell the Truth, and have released three albums as a duo, I Want You To Know, Moving To The Country, and Goin' Home. Moving to the Country won the W.C. Handy Award for "Acoustic Blues Album of the Year" in 2000. They have also recorded and performed as members of John Sebastian
's J-Band, and appeared on the soundtrack to A Prairie Home Companion
.
Country blues
Country blues is a general term that refers to all the acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues. It often incorporated elements of rural gospel, ragtime, hillbilly, and dixieland jazz...
-inspired musical duo. They met in 1993 during the recording of Paul Rishell's album Swear to Tell the Truth, and have released three albums as a duo, I Want You To Know, Moving To The Country, and Goin' Home. Moving to the Country won the W.C. Handy Award for "Acoustic Blues Album of the Year" in 2000. They have also recorded and performed as members of John Sebastian
John Sebastian
John Benson Sebastian Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000...
's J-Band, and appeared on the soundtrack to A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion (film)
A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 ensemble comedy elegy directed by Robert Altman, and was his final film, released just five months before his death...
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Discography
- I Want You To Know (1996)
- Moving to the Country (2000)
- Goin' Home (2004)
- A Night In Woodstock (2008)