Mandi Rae
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Mandi Rae

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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"Tapestry II"

Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised everywhere else, Mandi Rae grew up in a military family and embraced the challenges that a traveling childhood provided, as evidenced in her songwriting, her personality, and her ability to relate to just about anyone. Her musical influences began with Southern gospel from her mother and classic rock such as Pink Floyd and Three Dog Night from her father. Her songs can be described as "Folk rock" or "Acoustic Rock".

Mandi Rae's second CD titled "Gettaway" will be released October 1st. She's backed by her band "Westover Water" featuring Nick Timkovich - Bass, Michael Smith -Drums, and John Burke - Lead Guitar.

The CD release party for Mandi Rae and Westover Water is Sunday, October 1st at 8:30 at Oasis

You can listen to her interview at:
http://www.wbhm.org/Tapestry/bands/MandiRae_and_WestoverWater.html - wbhm


"B&W city paper"

Mandi Rae is a pleasant, rustic gal who still sounds like she should be playing the Crystal Pistol, and Rachel Loy remains a charming hippie gal with a scary fondness for dance music. (Thursday, November 2, at The Nick.) - J.R. Taylor


"Tapestry WBHM"

Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised everywhere else, Mandi Rae grew up in a military family and embraced the challenges that a travelling childhood provided, as evidenced in her songwriting, her personality, and her ability to relate to just about anyone.

Rae's musical influences began with southern gospel from her mother and classic rock such as Pink Floyd and Three Dog Night from her father. But her current musical influences include a mix of roots, bluegrass, and americana music. She describes her songs as "folk rock" or "Americana," while someone once said that she, "...sounds like she is just singing what she's thinking, like she's having a conversation with you."

Later, Rae taught herself to play the guitar, then banjo, and that's when she says that her songwriting really took off. Starting with an open mic night at The Moonlight Music Café, she quickly became a popular fixture in Birmingham, has opened for her personal musical favorites, The Avett Brothers, and has recorded at Quad M Studios in New Orleans.

"Unaffected" is the title of Mandi Rae's new 14 song CD. It's her with a guitar, banjo, and harmonica delivering her music with powerful simplicity.

Mandi Rae plays the Moonlight Music Café January 12th.

http://www.wbhm.org/Tapestry/bands/Mandi%20Rae.html - www.wbhm.org


"Here Comes Mandi Rae"

Mandi Rae from Birmingham is one of the young performers who is posed to take back country music from the over commercialized grip of the Nashville establishment and give us a genuine taste of the sincere, straightforward narrative and powerful voices of the real south. Full of humor and straight to the point, Mandi Rae has a natural affinity for entertaining and has been a refreshing break in my own music listening of late. Go to www.mandiraemusic.com and to www.myspace.com/mandirae and get an earful of Mandi Rae's punchy tunes and home-made philosophy. -- Robin Merritt of The ArtFRONT - The ArtFRONT


"Chattanooga City Times"

Scenic City Sounds: Mandi Rae in Studio 99
Friday, November 10, 2006, at 12:00 a.m.

Filed by M. Trevor Higgins

Birmingham songstress Mandi Rae was in town last night to catch some music, and she was kind enough to stop by the studio and play a few songs for us. She's got a new album, "Gett Away." You read right, Gett has two Ts. She explains why, and then plays two tracks off the album for us. Also tune in for a rare Robert Stack name drop.

E-mail at Trevor Higgins at thiggins@timesfreepress.com

- Trevor Higgins


Discography

Album Title: Unaffected (2005)
Includes 14 Original Songs. Played on radio stations in across the southeast.

Album Title: Gettaway (2006)
Includes 14 Original Songs. Played on radio stations throughout the southeast.

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Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised everywhere else, Mandi Rae grew up in a military family and embraced the challenges that a traveling childhood provided, as evidenced in her songwriting, her personality, and her ability to relate to just about anyone.

Mandi’s current musical influences include bands such as The Avett Brothers and Iron and Wine but, as with every true romantic, she is open to all good music. She describes her songs as “folk rock” or “Americana,” while someone once said that she, “…sounds like she is just singing what she’s thinking, like she’s having a conversation with you.”

She abandoned piano lessons when she was a little girl because, as she puts it, “My parents pushed me so hard I developed a hatred for performing in front of anyone.” But the seed had been sown. Later on she taught herself to play the guitar, then banjo, and that’s when she says that her songwriting really took off. Starting with an open mic night at The Moonlight Music Café, she quickly became a popular fixture in Birmingham, has opened for her musical heroes, The Avett Brothers, and has recorded at Quad M Studios in New Orleans, LA.

“Unaffected” is the title of her first 14 song CD. It’s her with a guitar, banjo, and harmonica delivering her music with powerful simplicity. Her lyrics are peppered with a wry wit and “seen it all” wisdom that belies her tender age of 21 and they ride on relentless strumming, like the rhythm of a train that is starved for more track.

In October 2006 Mandi Rae now joined by her backing band Westover Water released Gettaway, a 14 song CD featuring songs with hints of pop, rock, bluegrass, folk, and a little bit of everything else mixed in. Mandi Rae and her band successfully toured the midwest and west coast in support of Gettaway. Upon release the CD was featured on WBHM's local music radio show Tapestry. Since the release of Gettaway, Mandi Rae and Westover Water have been selling CD's and playing shows at a wide variety of venues in Birmingham and throughout the South East.