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Miss Massive Snowflake | /
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Powerdove | /
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"an ethereal quality that is driven by Arbogast’s unique riff-based guitar playing" Portland Sentinel
"charged with anger and passion, complemented by driving acoustic guitar arrangements... a refreshingly different album that is worth a listen." Pophatmusic.blogspot.com
"distinct voice set to pissed-off...the message as important as the melody" Terrascope.co.uk
"Armed with only an acoustic guitar ... Rainstick Cowbell makes searing music that's intensely personal ... intense, clear-eyed rants to unhinged exorcisms. It's exhilarating to hear music this raw, and by keeping close to the source, Arbogast makes a kind of folk music that's incredibly heavy even as it sticks to the delicate acoustic-guitar-and-voice template." Portland Mercury
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Scott Arbogast from the defunct Creepy Old Trucks now wields the moniker Rainstick Cowbell. He's left behind the bass and the drummer of his prior outfit, for an emotional excursion on acoustic guitar with tight strumming, severe picking and tense open spaces. His literary lyrics lament heroes past against snapshots of his own raw emotions. Hailed as the Acoustic Agitator, Rainstick Cowbell instigates, castigates and prognosticates about the world's weary state with an open heart and a bitter tone.
Epic in scale, intimate in detail, this is poetry and music intertwined around philosophy, history and ugly truths – laced with fragile hope. Rainstick Cowbell conjures up the great personal/political songwriters, like Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie and Ani D'Franco, if they were more pissed.
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