Howlin Rain
Live Rain
Recorded in various locations on the 2012 worldwide tour, Live Rain features vintage Howlin Rain originals including "Roll on the Rusted Days," "Dancers at the End of Time" and "Hung Out in the Rain," plus "Phantom in the Valley" and an eleven-plus-minute version of "Self-Made Man," both off their most recent full-length The Russian Wilds. The album showcases the most honed and bombastic Howlin Rain line-up to date: songwriter Ethan Miller (lead vocals / guitars), Earthlesss Isaiah Mitchell (guitars / backing vocals), Drunk Horses Cyrus Comiskey (bass/ backing vocals) and Raj Ojha (drums). Live Rain was recorded by David Streit and mixed by Tim Green. "A great rock guitarist needs a signature affectation. Ethan Millers happens to be an abrupt up-strum that, combined with a backward stagger, probably makes him something of an onstage hazard to his bandmates. When he really gets into it, as he does with elemental regularity, the Howlin Rain leader resembles a spasmodic marionette under the influence of a power greater than himself-call it the power of rawk. With his long, thinning hair and big black beard, Miller also sometimes resembles a defrocked rabbi on the run. And when he opens his mouth, the history of classic arena-rock vocals passes before your ears in a full-throated wail, embracing the combined spirits of Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Leslie West, Greg Rolie and the ghost of Freddy Mercury." -The Village Voice.