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Lipson is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who performs her simple, honest
songs on guitar, ukulele and banjo. Born near Detroit, MI, she spent her
childhood building forts with her brother and sister in the living room,
contemplating the dangers of the dark and pizza deliverers, riding horses
and playing with friends. Rachel first picked up a guitar at age 16 and
a few years later, after having moved to New York, began crafting the
songs that would make up her first album, This Way, which she self-released
the next year.
In 2003 Rachel released a 7" with Rough Trade recording artist Jeffrey Lewis, on Holland's Nowhere Fast record label and self-released her second album Some More Songs. She toured Europe for six weeks with Lewis and Herman Düne in the summer, including the Mofo festival in Paris in July. In the fall, Rachel recorded a new album at Olive Juice Studios in New York for the forthcoming release Pastures on Meccico Records, a UK label founded and run by members of Cornershop. Currently, Rachel is returning to the studio to record the first album of her side project, The Scruffles, with band mate Jeffrey Lewis. In
the last few years, Rachel has collaborated and performed extensively
with Leah Hayes (of La Laque and Scary Mansion), Herman Düne and
others and has played alongside Eugene Chadbourne, Kimya Dawson, Daniel
Rachel
Lipson's music combines a sort of radical simplicity and honesty with
intricately woven narratives. The lyrics seem to have as much to do
with William Faulkner as they do with Woody Guthrie. The music recalls
the earliest folk traditions and yet speaks at the same time to a contemporary
minimal aesthetic. While sometimes the approach is blindingly direct
and at others masterfully oblique, the overall effect is irresistible,
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