Rachel Innes has been interviewed by David Prudames (
The
Guardian),
a brief excerpt
features below ..
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he interview
took place @ The Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton, prior to an exhilarating set
by Just Bizarre
a
nd Rachel's inaugural set with
Doug Hoekstra.
US alt-country rising star Doug Hoekstra has
travelled a long way to get his music in front of a sympathetic audience -
from Nashville to Brighton in fact.
In Sunday night's gig he was
joined by the city's rising daughter Rachel Innes, wrapping
her soulful vocals around his simple yet perfectly constructed songs, which
provided eloquent evidence for why Hoekstra's already bagged three Grammy
nominations.
Innes has a voice that fits
neatly between Aretha Franklin and Portishead's Beth Gibbons,
while Hoekstra takes his cues from a long-line of country-ish confessors,
from Hank Williams to Bruce Springsteen. And he's not the only one.
Everywhere, it seems, the country credos of the dog done and died are being
dressed up for the urban consumer in a way that's more New York City than
Nashville.(David Prudame and Stephen
Dowling, Guardian Unlimited, Tuesday May 21, 2002)
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On
the second night of their Scottish jaunt Rachel & Doug Hoekstra appeared
on BBC Radio Scotland's 'Celtic Connection'. The interview and session is
archived @