Hailing from the Canadian prairies, Rae Spoon set out to tour the world in his early twenties. Back then his music was mostly country oriented but on his fourth album, the up-coming superioryouareinferior , Spoon has a gone towards a more advanced sound, blending the country with bluegrass, indie rock and experimental nuances. As a young transgendered artist, Rae Spoon has found inspiration in the darker sides of being open about his identity, resulting in some of the most beautiful songs I've personally heard in a long time. He blends hope with fear, reassurance with [...]
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Rae Spoon is a transgender folk/indie singer/songwriter from Calgary, Alberta who describes his own brand of music as "cowboy-folk that's armed to the teeth with punk rock attitude." Rae Spoon made his entrance into the music world at the age of twenty as one of the world's only transgender (born female, now identifies as male) country singers. Spoon has toured Canada, Europe, Australia and the USA and performed with an impressive list of artists, including The Be Good Tanyas, Annabelle Chvostek (of the Wailin' Jennys), Melissa Ferrick, Natalie Merchant and Earl Scruggs. Spoon has also been featured [...]
rae spoon , whose bio & promo materials tout him as one of the world's only transgender country singers and whose voice reminds us not overmuch but somewhat of joel thibadeau of death vessel , has a new album out, his first in two years, called superioryouareinferior . musically, spoon has branched out on this latest album from straight forward country & folk to incorporate elements of rock & glam & electronic experimentalism. rae spoon - bones in a museum [...]
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Rae Spoon . Where do I start? He is prairie-born, a product of the 80s. He is one of the world's only transgendered country singers, and in his early twenties, he hit the road to cross Canada, Europe, Australia and the USA, where he found that not every door was open and welcoming, just as not every mind was open and accepting. He hid out in Eastern Germany for a winter and penned some songs about his experiences criss-crossing Canada and it's highways. The product is Superioryouareinferior , a beguiling album, like it's [...]
myspace I am not an expert in every music genre, but really who can be? For example, I am relatively unfamiliar with trans gender folkers from Alberta, especially those switch it up and start dabbling in indie rock anthems, country and every genre in between. As a result, well, I wasn't up to speed on Rae Spoon until I talked to my buddy Ken at the Azeda Booth show (side note, Azeda Booth are fan-f*cking-tastic. Seriously, the record is beautiful but the live show transforms the slow moving, orchestrated electro [...]
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