Rachel Wearsch

Artist Information

Biography

Rachel Wearsch has been playing and studying music since the age of 12. Although she has performed many different styles of music, her style is a combination of traditional country, bluegrass, folk and blues music. Rachel writes and performs all of her own music. She plays the piano, guitar, bass (electric & acoustic), mandolin and lap steel. Throughout her career she has opened for many top artists including Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Loretta Lynn, Ray Stevens, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Vern Gosdin, Clint Black , Alan Jackson, Aaron Tippin, Bill Monroe, Little Jimmy Dickens, Southern Pacific, Ricky Scaggs and The Judds. Recently, she was added to the 2008 Indie Music for Life CD and was a top 5 finalist in www.singeruniverse.com's vocalist of the month competition. She also has a master in music education with a classical piano/choral empahases. Check out Rachel's new album entitled "Life of Love" that she produced and engineered herself.Rachel grew up surrounded with music. Besides having a very musical family, Rachel's parents owned (and still do) a facility called "The Music Barn" which housed a weekly jam session for local country musicians. Instead of a having the typical hobbies of a teenager, Rachel performed professionally full time while she finished school. She has always loved to play different instruments, write songs and spend time with other
musicians.

Instrumentation

Rachel-piano or keyboard, acoustic guitar and mandolin
Acoustic and electric guitarist
string bass/electric bass player, pedal steel & drums
pedal steel
drums

Discography

Songs from Rachel's latest album have been getting air play on many public and college radio stations. Streaming and downloads are available at rachelwearsch.com, itunes, mp3.com, snocap, soundclick, folkalley.com and many more.
She also has CD's available on cdbaby.com

Links

• myspace

Audio

• Someday
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• He's Not You-demo
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• Guilty
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• So This is Love-Live @ The Kent Stage
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• Just Go On
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• Money Honey-live
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• Stay with Me
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• When I'm with You-demo
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Lyrics

• When it Comes to You
• Another Lifetime Ago
• Just Go On
• When I'm with You
• Words
• Count on Me Baby
• It's About Time
• Now I've found Home
• Down in My Heart
• So This is Love
• He's Not You

Video

Into the Mystic

Photo Gallery

Press

• CMJ Radio 200 [+ Show ]
  

  10/16/07 CMJ Radio 200 - Top 30 - WSCA-LP 106.1FM 1 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers Matador 2 JOH...10/16/07
  CMJ Radio 200 - Top 30 - WSCA-LP 106.1FM
  
  1 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers Matador
  2 JOHN VANDERSLICE Emerald City Barsuk
  3 DAN BLAKESLEE Lincoln Street Roughs Peapod Recordings
  4 EVERYBODYFIELDS Nothing Is Okay Ramseur
  5 DEVENDRA BANHART Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon XL-Beggars
  6 GO TEAM! Proof Of Youth Subpop
  7 BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS Lifeline Virgin
  8 MOTHER & THE ADDICTS Science Fiction Illustrated Chemikal Underground
  9 AUDREY RYAN Dishes And Pills Folkwit
  10 RACHEL WEARSCH Life Of Love
  11 VARIOUS ARTISTS Guilt By Association Engine Room
  12 JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala Secretly Canadian
  13 CAVE SINGERS Invitation Songs
  14 PELLE CARLBERG In A Nutsell Twentyseven
  15 IRON & WINE The Shepherd's Dog Subpop
  16 ROBERT POLLARD Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love/Standard Gargoyle Decisions Merge
  17 MANNEQUIN MEN Fresh Rot Flameshovel
  18 CASS MCCOMBS Dropping The Writ Domino
  19 FIERY FURNACES Widow City Thrill Jockey
  20 SHOUT OUT LOUDS Our Ill Wills Merge
  21 MORNING RECORDINGS The Welcome Kinetic Loose Thread
  22 WOODEN SHJIPS - s/t Holy Mountain
  23 JOSE GONZALEZ In Our Nature Mute
  24 EARLIMART Mentor Tormentor Majordomo
  25 OLD TIME RELIJUN Catharsis In Crisis K
  26 SEA WOLF Leaves In The River Dangerbird
  27 THE GOOD LIFE Help Wanted Nights Saddle Creek
  28 FIRE ENGINES Hungry Beat Acute
  29 VHS OR BETA Bring On The Comets Astralwerks
  30 LEWIS TAYLOR The Lost Album Hacktone
  
  
  Rachel-Your songs are magical and your delivery of them is soulful! :)
  

• Bill Wence Promotions [+ Show ]
  

  Just listened this morning and you have a wonderful voice. I love the songs and this is a fine albu...Just listened this morning and you have a wonderful
  voice. I love the songs and this is a fine album. You definitely fit in the Npr/Americana/roots formats.
  
  

• Radioindy.com review 5/3/08 [+ Show ]
  

  radioindy.com review - May 3, 2008 “Life of Love” by Rachel Wearsch is best described as a delightf...radioindy.com review - May 3, 2008
  “Life of Love” by Rachel Wearsch is best described as a delightfully refreshing country/folk album. The style is contemporary and the music is memorable. Listeners will surely remember these tunes and more importantly, be able to relate to the emotions expressed through these poetic lyrics. This CD is a strong reflection of the heavy emotional atmospheres of love and heartbreak that are trademarks of great country tunes. The sax solo on “Just Go On” gives a fine touch to a well-performed piece. The piano intro on “You Gave Me Your Love” and the sensuous presentation of its graceful lyrics simply touches the soul. The toe-tapping up-beat in “Count On Me Baby” will get your blood pumping and make you want to get up and dance. This is a very innovative and creative work of art. What’s more, this collection is nicely polished with professional production. It is sure to be a worthwhile addition to you collection of country CD’s. http://www. radioindy. com/bands/4279/
  

• WFSS FM Fayetteville, NC [+ Show ]
  

  Rachel, what a beautiful voice you have.. would love to be able to spin your music on our show Acous...Rachel, what a beautiful voice you have.. would love to be able to spin your music on our show Acoustic Planet.. We are an NPR station in Fayetteville, NC..

• Teacher has voice of an angel [+ Show ]
  

  The Chronicle Telegram- Alicia Castelli - September 23, 2007 ELYRIA — A local junior high school mu...The Chronicle Telegram- Alicia Castelli - September 23, 2007
  ELYRIA — A local junior high school music teacher is making an international name for herself as a musician thanks in part to the Internet.
  Rachel Wearsch, a choir and general music teacher at Eastern Heights Junior High School in Elyria, has been playing one instrument or another since she was 6. She loves introducing music to her students, but these days she is busy marketing herself and her own music on the Internet.
  “It’s some folk music mixed with country and blues. It’s pretty eclectic,” Wearsch said. “It’s all songs I wrote.”
  
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  Rachel Wearsch
  Wearsch got her master’s degree in music education from the University of Akron and has been teaching seventh- and eighth-graders for seven years.
  And within the last few months, she created a Web site — www.rachelwearsch.com — where she showcases her work and sells her CD, titled “Life of Love.”
  As if that weren’t enough, Wearsch also is married, with two children and two step-children.
  “I grew up in a very musical family,” she said. “I was surrounded by it. My parents had a farm in Medina, and my dad decided our barn needed to be the music barn. I started studying classical piano at age 6. We had musicians over all the time for jam sessions. Music has always been a huge part of my life.”
  Wearsch’s parents, avid country music fans, introduced her to a variety of music and musicians. In addition to the piano, Wearsch also plays bass, mandolin and guitar, and is studying the lap steel.
  “I sing and play, and I started playing professionally at age 12,” she said. “That was a full-time job for me then, in addition to school. I played with different bands at festivals and in clubs. I was young, but my parents were very strict and were always with me. It was a lot of fun.”
  Wearsch has opened locally for some high-profile names, including Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Clint Black and The Judds.
  Do her students know they are learning from a local celebrity?
  “Not really,” Wearsch said. “Maybe a little, but I try to keep that very separate. I love my teaching job. I’m so lucky to be able to do something that I love.”
  After she set up her Web site, Wearsch started getting international recognition.
  “I’ve gotten a good response,” she said. “Quite a few public radio stations and a few Internet stations are playing my songs. I love looking at comments from people in Germany and Ireland who’ve downloaded my music. I’m getting to talk to people from all over the world. It makes the world a smaller place for me.”
  What was it like opening for Emmylou Harris — one of her favorite artists? “It was a thrill,” Wearsch said.
  Wearsch said she loves that she gets to share her love of music, which was so much a part of her childhood, with her students.
  “Teaching is totally different from performing, but it’s very rewarding,” she said. “I was a shy child, and singing and performing was a way of expressing myself and my feelings.
  “For my students, I want them to have that same experience. I want music for them to be a way to express themselves in a positive way. It’s very cool.”
  Fan quotes posted on her Web site indicate her listeners feel the same way. There’s everything from “the voice of a country angel” to the rather concise “you freakin’ rock!”
  Fans can purchase songs or her CD on her Web site, or sites including MP3.com, payplay.fm, cdbaby.com, itunes.com and others.
  

• Greatful Dread Public Radio [+ Show ]
  

  Your music is beautiful... proficiently played and gorgeously sung. How do we add you to our playlis...Your music is beautiful... proficiently played and gorgeously sung. How do we add you to our playlist?
  
  Rachel, I just compiled this week's GDPR Hottest Hundred, and "Life of Love" came in at exactly 100. Congratulations!
  

• momentumworldwire.com [+ Show ]
  

  "I need to get you together with some singers - some legends, some that need to become legends. You ..."I need to get you together with some singers - some legends, some that need to become legends. You sound beautiful...and I'm particular. WOW."
  

• Kit Carson McGuire KRIM FM Arizona [+ Show ]
  

  I'm so excited after listening to Someday and Just Go On! Truely amazing and something to make Emmyl...I'm so excited after listening to Someday and Just Go On! Truely amazing and something to make Emmylou a bit jealous

• WXOU Rochester, MI [+ Show ]
  

  You're very talented! I know we have at least one or two shows that play your kind of music. You sho...You're very talented! I know we have at least one or two shows that play your kind of music. You should submit a CD to our music director at:
  
  WXOU
  c/o Music Director
  69 Oakland Center
  Rochester, MI 48309
  
  

• WUSC FM Columbia, SC [+ Show ]
  

  think you've got a great voice. If you have some music to send, it would get airplay on our station... think you've got a great voice. If you have some music to send, it would get airplay on our station. We have several Americana shows, and a lot of the free-format shows play a healthy dose of Americana as well.
  

Setlist

Rachel's set list varies tremendously depending the venue. Lately, most of her performances have been in promotion with her latest album.

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