Walk On Water = W.O.W.!
by Johnee D'Shea
Rainmaker's debut album, Walk on Water, has slipped through the fingers of worldwide music lovers...until now!
Released originally in 1996, was a brainchild of bassist/songwriter, Johnee D'Shea when he met up with guitarist/songwriter, Mark Ross and vocalist, Christopher Tai in the fall of 1995 after Johnee left his previous band, College Music Journal (CMJ) radio darlings, 1000 Pleasures.
A couple hour jam session in a northeast Minneapolis rehersal space provided fruitful with the albums opening song "Faded Faith" being written that first night together.
With the multiple changing of the drummer position over the next few months, they established themselves with drummer, Matt James, an Austin, Tx transplant, who was a chance meeting in December 1995 at a local club when vocalist, Christopher Tai, meet Matt's wife and ended up talking about music with her explaining how the band needed a new drummer. "My husband is a drummer", she said. The rest is history.
Recorded in the spring of 1996 at world famous, Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN, has been the outlet for mega selling artists of that era. Nirvava, Soul Aslyum, Live, PJ Harvey and Sabastian Bach (Skid Row) just to name a few.
After locking themselves in this 40 acre wooded lot studio for 7 days with no outside influence provided the band with the comfort and energy to create what you now hear...Rainmaker - Walk on Water!
