MP3 The Burnin Rain - Ritual Medicine Show

Desert wind sweeped sun soaked western psychedelic in the style of (the 13th floor elevators.)

9 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Psychedelic, ROCK: 60's Rock



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The Burnin Rain is the ultimate psychedelic garage band
on this planet, because they play a completely unique
type of almost brain-dead,drug-soaked sixties garage
and acid rock of their own. (Freak Beat Magazine)
England

It's a dark and foul-smelling rainy night.By the flick-
ering light of the last remaining neon tube of smashed
publicity sing watching over an incredibly filthy back
ally in downtown Dallas.Three rats eating from a slowly
disintergating,blackly swollen corpse of a crack addict.
Suddenly a loud metal clatter runs through the deserted
ally in this shunned neighbourhood. The round heavy me-
tal lid of a derelict sewer system is thrown aside by a
enormous force and out of this hellish black hole gulps
a thick, green-glowing smoke. The rats stop chewing on
the rotting meat of the extremities of the corpse and
stare in fascination ant the black hole,from which sudd-
enly rises a dripping wet,shiny black claw holding a
square,flat object.A beam of insane terror runs through
the beady little eyes of the rats that squeak in fear
and gallop out of the ally at full speed. This could
only mean one thing that Rockadelic Records have re-
leased the new record by The Burnin Rain (Ritual med-
icine Show). (Freak Beat Magazine)
England

The Burnin Rain have established them selves completely
as a serious cult band in Europe.This is pure,crude and
unpolished garage-psych as it's ment to be. I think that
"Gwendolyn" must be one,if not the best Rain songs I have
heard so far. The guitar is just incredible and one is
tempted to put it on the level with immortal (Cold Sun)
"Dark Shawdows" album that Rockadelic pressed.Though the
over all atmosphere is completely differnt.With the soul-
fulgrooves of of the song "The Undergroud" the band is al-
ways expanding into different directions. What I like ab-
out The Burnin Rain is that they are immediately recog-
nized as a pure Texas psych band that uses the jug and a
dry guitar sound that places them among the logic heirs
of the stand out band that have been knighted Texas psych
garage greats.Just take the song "Black Cat Night" with
it's circling guitar themes that take you eight miles
higher than all these fake wanna-bees. With primitive
crawling vocals,soaring guitars and swelling organ I can't
think of a better psyche-garage Texas band that I have
listen to that is better than "The Burnin Rain".
(Gregor Kessler Gore Magazine)
Germany

"Currently extant Texas band,but it's psychedelic
roots run deep" (Spin Magazine)
USA

"Burnin Rain is pure Texadelia, a band that would not
sound out of place on an International Artist comp.
This is one hell of a guitar album,which has been
fighting for space hereabouts with the likes of The
Dead Moon for the past month or so.
(Phil McMullen Bucket Full of Brains)
England

Burninâ Rain
by Lyric LaCeile

Mike Pemberton started out as the token âwhiteâ boy playing bass in an all-Black funk band in the late 70âs . It was a memorable experience to say the least. In the early 80âs he joined Deep Ellum band, âModel 12â, with Chris Gore and....A very handsome guy, with a laid-back attitude, Mike eased onto the scene with flair and self-assurance minus the cockiness we could all do without. In the tradition of the â13th Floor Elevatorsâ, âThe Chessmenâ, âMouse and The Trapsâ and âThe Nomadâs meet the âBurninâ Rainâ, brainchild of Mike Pemberton and Mark Migliore, founder, Rockadelic Records, conceptualized in 1988. Using vintage âVoxâ guitars, amps and fuzz boxes they hired Jim Edgerton for vocals , Erich Anderson sounding very Manzarek-esque on Vox Organ and brilliant , veteran rock drummer Chris Gore. In a typically bohemian environment, replete with lava lamps, incense, carpeted walls, in an old brick two-story
four-plex on Worth Street in historical East Dallas, their highly palpable chemistry shaped the sounds that quickly become âBurnin Rainâ.

The first session produced âPiece of your Loveâ, and âAll Night Longâ, (the third
45 rpm on Rockadelic Records), a quick- selling 500 !. Within two months of the bandâs formation, Mark Miglioure and Jim Edgerton split to form their own band, âFish Eye Lensâ. The surviving members located an old high-school pal, Dan Connelly, (formerly of âDanny and The Daylightsâ) to fill out the gap on vocals and lead guitar, producing their first effort, âVisionsâ on the âMind and Eyeâ label, with distribution through Rockadelic Records, Dallas and âResonanceâ of The Netherlands and New York City. The grainy, raw effects on tunes like, âSmoke Stack Lighteningâ were due in part to a classic four-track Crown reel-to-reel recorder and a Gretch guitar owned by Pemberton. Dannyâs natural swagger with the guitar and his organic, coarse, blues-driven voice brushed on the final touches of what would become one of the hippest, most talented bands in Deep Ellum, and the Southwest.

The next 10 months were spent honing their dazzling, vibrant 12-song repertoire. Within a month of pressing, Semiphore Records in Holland heard their music, instantly signed the band, repressing âVisionsâ with 4000 sold as they began recording their second album, âIwaskaâ. Iwaska is a South American vine that local shaman used in ritual ceremonies, inducing a drug-like trance with visions of places they never physically inhabited⦠. Featuring seasoned local Dallas chanteuse Cricket Taylor on the psyche-rock, bluesy, swaying duet with Danny, âDreamsâ, opening with a light rainstorm track layered underneath, âWhat is it that you want, or do you really know, dear? Tell me do you have a dream ? Well find it , chase it, la la la⦠â¦..â Oh, youâll sing along, trust me. âI have let others get to me at times, but I wonât let it stop me, no, Iâll let it inspire me, I willââ¦â¦the sweet echoes of a voice too early taken , Danny Connellyâs haunting layers in harmony plead âDonât let your dreams go too farââ¦..get ready for the chill.

Their third record, âPictures In The Fireâ, was a triumph in its simplicity. Still retaining the raw, edgy sound with a more finessed, mature result, noted especially in the title song, with Pemberton singing, they left you wanting moreâ¦.Their live shows were etched into the memory of those fortunate enough to experience them, from live shows at Club Clearview to the Frye Street Fair, with a sound that endures the test of time, and now anyone can access the beauty of Burnin Rain!

Lyric LaCeile
-Music journalist, Unsigned Magazine, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
-Music Biographer
-Hostess and presenter, UK Featured Artists Site, http://www.myspace.com/lyricuk,