The Rainwater LP is Citizen Cope's fourth studio album, released 8 February 2010 on Amazon MP3, and digitally released elsewhere on 9 February 2010, and in-stores on 2 March 2010.[1]
The album is produced by Cope (Clarence Greenwood) and it is the first record released under his own record label - RainWater Recordings Inc. He explained the reason for releasing it himself: "I kept hearing things like 'Retail's gonna need you to do this,' or 'The artwork has to be like this.' I don't want to be led into those confines anymore. I want to be able to do it my own way."[2][3] The album's title is partially a reference to the commoditization of music, with musicians contractually obliged to provide a certain number of "LP"s; Cope stated "Now I'm not obligated to any record company, so I thought it was a nice play on that."[4] The album was recorded between Brooklyn Recording (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) and The Document Room (Malibu, CA) during the course of 2009 and in between Cope's extensive touring.[1]
Cope worked on the album with musicians such as drummer Paul "Buggy" Edwards, legendary bass guitarists Michael "Funky Ned" Neal,[1] and Preston Crump,[1] keyboardist James Poyser (who previously has worked with acts such as The Roots, Jill Scott, and John Legend) and percussionist Bashiri Johnson.
The song "Keep Askin" was released as a free download on 14 June 2009 from the Citizen Cope website and announced as the first song from the forthcoming album.[5]
On 19 January 2010, the first official single from the album, "Healing Hands" was digitally released via digital service providers.[6]
^ abcdSclafani, Tony (2010) "Citizen Cope The Rainwater LP", Prefix, retrieved 2010-02-09
^Hall, Tara (2010) "Citizen Cope adds to 'Rainwater' winter run Archived 2010-01-21 at the Wayback Machine", Live Daily, January 19, 2010, retrieved 2010-02-09 NOTE: DEAD LINK December 26, 2015
^Same link referenced via Internet Archive/Wayback Machine december 26, 2015
^Oksenhorn, Stewart (2010) "Citizen Cope takes the long view of making an album", Aspen Times, September 3, 2009, retrieved 2010-02-09
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