1. Voodoo Music
2. Mellow Down Easy
3. Wayfaring Stranger
4. Backwater Blues
5. Mush Mind Blues
6. All Done In
7. Fear
8. Just A Little Bit
9. Zealots Serve Dogmas (Acoustic)
10. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
11. Zealots Serve Dogmas
12. I Am A Sinner

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VIDEOS

BACKWATER BLUES (LIVE 1989)

“these unearthed tapes were recorded in the best studio tucson had to offer at the time and were recently rediscovered and dusted off properly by jim blackwood. and so now, with its scorching tumble, we all get to stumble into celebrating rainer, with this joyous sonic soar that soothes the sorrow of his death 10 years ago. he was my best friend. he was my brother. and he taught without really teaching.”
– howe gelb

OW OM Finished Recorded Products presents Rainer: The Westwood Sessions Volume I. The first of three volumes, we consider these timeless recordings far too precious to be heard by just a lucky handful.

Ten years after his passing, and twenty years after these marathon recording sessions took place, what is captured here is an astounding picture of Rainer in 1987. Self assured, powerful, and brimming with confidence, Rainer is accompanied by his band Das Combo, consisting of bassist Nick Augustine and drummer Bruce Halper. Session producer Eric Westfall also joins in with various instrumental colors.

Presumably, tracks from these sessions were intended as a follow-up to the 1984 album Barefoot Rock with… Rainer And Das Combo, but the tapes were shelved as Rainer moved on in other directions. His next release would not come until 1992 with the purely solo album Worried Spirits.

Taken directly from the original two track master tapes and carefully prepared for their first official release, these recordings are nothing short of stunning.

While there are many highlights to relish here, the closing pieces “Zealots Serve Dogmas” and “I Am A Sinner” (only hinted at on the 1993 album The Texas Tapes) are poised to become the new high water mark of Rainer’s prolific cannon.

“Recorded in 1997 and Released in 2002”

1. Junkpile
2. Where We Are
3. Oasis
4. The Farm
5. Here I Am
6. Arabing
7. Hard To Remember
8. Instrumental #13
9. Instrumental #9 (Wait A Minute)
10. Instrumental #5
11. Instrumental #3
12. Love Is What
13. Joy Is Now
14. Shifting Blues
15. Instrumental #4 (Slight Humming)
16. Instrumental #10 (Chore Ending)
17. Instrumental #6
18. Let’s Pretend To Be Happy

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“Recorded Live in 1997”

1. Improv In E
2. Sometimes It’s Hard
3. Round and Round
4. Powder Keg
5. My Honey
6. Inner Flame
7. Di Lantin
8. Lament of Love
9. One Man Crusade
10. The Farm
11. The Mountain
12. Loosin Ground
13. River of Real Time
14. Time Slips Away
15. Within You Without You
16. One Wrong Turn
17. Rude World
18. God Bless The Child
19. Cheer Down
20. Long Way

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“Recorded in 1996”

1. Here Comes Lilly
2. Rude World
3. The Good Book
4. Pastime Paradise
5. Flashlight
6. One Wrong Turn
7. Bo Weavil
8. De-Railed
9. Don’t Know Why
10. Drive
11. Horse Hair
12. Something’s
13. Story Teller
14. Unseen Enemy
15. Bo Weavil Reprise
16. Lament Of Love
17. All Done In

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“Released in 1995”

1. Rude World
2. Trains
3. De-Railed
4. Lament Of Love
5. Within You Without You
6. The Good Book
7. One Man Crusade
8. Drive
9. Curiouser and Curiouser
10. Voodoo Music
11. Some Things
12. Trouble Hit Me / No Rewind
13. One Wrong Turn
14. Shouldn’t Worry ‘Bout That

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“Originally released in 1995”

1. Within You Without You
2. Curioser And Curioser
3. Ode To N2O
4. Suck Time
5. Cheeseball
6. Opening Aunt Dora’s Box in 6/8
7. Nod To N2O

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“Originally released in 1993”

1. Power of Delight
2. One Man Crusade
3. It’s A Matter Of Taste
4. Merciful God (Adapted From Zealots Serve Dogmas)
5. (Making The) Trains (Run On Time)
6. What’s Wrong Romeo
7. Powder Keg
8. The Mush Mind Blues
9. Drive Drive Drive
10. Another Man
11. That’s How Things Get Done
12. I Am A Sinner

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“Recorded and released in 1992”

1. Powder Keg
2. Limit To It
3. Opening Aunt Dora’s Box In 6/8
4. New World
5. Long Long Way To The Top Of The World
6. Losing Ground
7. Life Is Fine
8. Worried Spirits
9. Tasted Better Going Down
10. Waves Of Sorrow
11. Stone’s Throw Away
12. The River Of Real Time
13. Poor Backslider
14. Funny How Time Slips Away
15. Ain’t Givin’ Up (The New Cooking Blues)

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