The Rainwater LP is Citizen Cope's fourth studio album, released 8 February 2010 on Amazon MP3, and digitally released elsewhere on 9 February 2010, and due in-stores on 2 March 2010.

The album is produced by Cope (Clarence Greenwood) and it is the first record released under his own record label - RainWater Recordings Inc. He explained the reason for releasing it himself: "I kept hearing things like 'Retail's gonna need you to do this,' or 'The artwork has to be like this.' I don't want to be led into those confines anymore. I want to be able to do it my own way."Hall, Tara (2010) "", Live Daily, January 19, 2010, retrieved 2010-02-09 The album's title is partially a reference to the commoditization of music, with musicians contractually obliged to provide a certain number of "LP"s; Cope stated "Now I'm not obligated to any record company, so I thought it was a nice play on that."Oksenhorn, Stewart (2010) "", Aspen Times, September 3, 2009, retrieved 2010-02-09 The album was recorded between Brooklyn Recording (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) and The Document Room (Malibu, CA) during the course of 2009 and in between Cope's extensive touring.Sclafani, Tony (2010) "", Prefix, retrieved 2010-02-09

Cope worked on the album with musicians such as drummer Paul "Buggy" Edwards, legendary bass guitarists Michael "Funky Ned" Neal, and Preston Crump, keyboardist James Poyser (who previously has worked with acts such as The Roots, Jill Scott, and John Legend) and percussionist Bashiri Johnson.

The song "Keep Askin" was released as a free download on 14 June 2009 from the Citizen Cope website and announced as the first song from the forthcoming album."", citizencope.com, retrieved 2010-02-09

On 19 January 2010, the first official single from the album, "Healing Hands" was digitally released via digital service providers."", citizencope.com, retrieved 2010-02-09

Critical reception

Alex Henderson of Allmusic gave the album a 3.5/5 rating, calling it "one of Greenwood's more consistent efforts". In the view of Hays Harris of Richmond.com , "The mix of rock, folk, blues and hip-hop elements" on the album formed "a defining portrait of considerable depth".Harris, Hays (2010) "", Richmond.com, February 5, 2010, retrieved 2010-02-09 Nancy Dunham of The Washington Examiner described it as an album that is "easy to fall in love with", calling it "Cope at his finest".Dunham, Nancy (2010) "", The Washington Examiner, February 4, 2010, retrieved 2010-02-09

References

Category:2010 albums

Category:Citizen Cope albums

Artist/Band Information

Citizen Cope is the pseudonym of Clarence Greenwood, an American musician. Greenwood was raised in Washington, DC and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

History

In 1997, Greenwood was featured in The Washington Post weekend section.

After releasing his demo tape, Cope was signed to Capitol Records, where he recorded Shotguns. In 1998, he was dropped from Capitol, without releasing the album.

In 2000, Greenwood signed with the DreamWorks Records label, which released his first album in September 2002, Citizen Cope. To promote the record, Greenwood toured as an opener for Nelly Furtado. He performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, in 2002.

The Washington Post did a large feature on Cope in early 2002, calling him "the city's most soulful export since Marvin Gaye."

In October 2002, Carlos Santana released his record titled Shaman. Greenwood wrote and produced one of the tracks on that album.

After the release of Citizen Cope, Greenwood felt that the label "mishandled" the record. Tension between the label and artist prompted Greenwood to buy out his contract with the label, using the advance he received from his next label, Arista Records and RCA Records, to do so.

In September 2004, Citizen Cope released his second record, The Clarence Greenwood Recordings. The album has sold more than 300,000 records to date, with over 700,000 single downloads. From 2004 through 2010, Citizen Cope has undertaken a heavy tour schedule.

In 2005, Cope continued to tour the United States promoting his second major-label record. In April, his song "Son's Gonna Rise" began appearing in a Pontiac commercial and was distributed as the album's second single.

On September 12, 2006, Citizen Cope released the album Every Waking Moment.

In early 2008, Citizen Cope parted ways with RCA records.

The song "Let the Drummer Kick" was featured in the 2008 Acura TSX commercial early that year.

In early June 2008, Citizen Cope announced a special one off solo show at the London Luminaire in Kilburn on the 2nd July.

He made an appearance on Dido's 2008 album Safe Trip Home, collaborating on a track called "Burnin' Love".

Throughout 2008, Citizen Cope sold more than 100,000 tickets in North America alone (festivals and colleges not included), performing more than 120 shows.

Cope finished his highly successful US solo acoustic tour in December 2008. Citizen Cope is set to go back on tour, with his full band, in late January through the end of February 2009. He is currently touring and promoting his latest album, The Rainwater LP, released through his own label, RainWater Recordings, on February 8, 2010, elsewhere digitally February 9, 2010, with the physical CD released March 2, 2010.

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Use in other media

*"Sideways"

**Featured in the episode "My Jiggly Ball" of the television series 'Scrubs'

**Featured in 2006's Trust the Man

**Featured in 2008's Ghost Town

**In the television series, One Tree Hill

**Featured on Entourage, episode "The Cannes Kids"

**Featured in 2009's "So You Think You Can Dance"

**Featured in 2010 Italian Film "Baciami Ancora" directed by Gabriele Muccino.

*"Holdin' On"

**Played during a scene in the 2005 film Prime.

*"Awe"

**Featured in 2007's "Entourage"

*"Deep"

**Featured in episode of "One Tree Hill".

*"If There's Love"

**Featured in 2002 episode of TV series "Smallville".

*"Left for Dead"

**Featured in 2007 TV episode of "Criminal Minds".

*"Brother Lee"

**Featured in a commercial for ClickNET, a Romanian ISP.

**Plays in trailer for the 2008 film "What Just Happened?"

*"Nite Becomes Day"

**Featured in the movie Fracture.

**Featured in festival film 5 Up 5 Down.

**Featured in TV series "Starved."

*"Pablo Picasso"

**Featured in 2006 TV series "6 Degrees."

**Featured in TV series "Starved."

**Featured in TV series "Related".

*"Penitentiary"

**Played in the Series Premiere in 2005 of the CBS TV Series Criminal Minds

*"Son's Gonna Rise"

**Featured in Pontiac commercial.

**Featured in AXN Portugal commercial.

**In the television series, One Tree Hill on May 10th, 2005.

**In a trailer for television series Sons of Anarchy in July 2009.

**In an HBO/Cinemax commercial.

*"My Way Home"

**Featured in 2005 TV series "Summerland".

**A scene in the 2006 film Trust the Man.

**Featured in festival film 5 Up 5 Down.

*"Bullet and a Target":

**An episode of HBO's hit series Entourage ( Season 2, "Blue Balls Lagoon")

**Featured in 2005 Film "Hit List".

**An episode of Showtime's series Sleeper Cell (Season 1, "Target")

**The end credits of the 2006 film The Sentinel.

**In a 2006 episode of the CBS TV Series Cold Case.

**A scene in the 2006 film Trust the Man.

**Featured in 2006 TV series "Starved.

**A scene in the 2007 film Alpha Dog.

**Featured in 2007 promo commercial for 24/Degree".

**In the end credits of the 2006 film 16 Blocks.

**In the soundtrack of Seasons, a mountain biking film by The Collective, during a section by rider Andrew Shandro.

**In the soundtrack of The Tangerine Dream, a 16 mm ski film by Teton Gravity Research.

**In the soundtrack of The Hit List, a ski film by Matchstick Productions.

**Featured on rapper Rhymefest's album Blue Collar

**Sampled by rap group Bliss N Eso on the Album Flying Colours

**Featured in the 2008 snowboarding movie Chuch!

**In the movie "Frothing", when Joel Parkinson surf

**Featured in 2009 HBO special Pacquaio/Cotto 24/7".

*"Let the Drummer Kick"

**in the final scene of "Entrance Wound", an episode from the CBS TV series CSI: Miami

**In the films Accepted and Coach Carter.

**Featured in 2003 Episode of "CSI: Miami".

**In a 2005 episode of the CBS TV Series Cold Case.

**On the hit Fox show So You Think You Can Dance in a contemporary dance routine by Neil Haskell and Lauren Gottlieb in season three. The next day, the track reached #50 on the iTunes Top 100 Singles Chart. It was also used for a solo routine by Jeanine Mason in season five.

**The HBO series Entourage during the fourth season finale "The Cannes Kids." Entourage also featured the song "Awe" during the second part of the third season's (3B) episode "The Prince's Bride".

**Featured on the album Radiodread by Easy Star All-Stars with his cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police".

**Featured in a 2008 Acura TSX commercial.

**Featured in an episode of NBC's drama series "Kingpin"

*"Awe" (Instrumental)

**Featured in an episode of HBO's Entourage

*"Left For Dead"

**Featured in Season 2 episode 22 (legacy) of Criminal Minds.

*"Hurricane Waters"

**Featured in the documentary Trouble the Water.

**Featured in 2005 festival film Midsummer Dream.

*"Back Together"

**Featured in 2006 episode of "One Tree Hill.

Discography

* Cope Citizen (1992)

* Citizen Cope (2002)

* The Clarence Greenwood Recordings (2004)

* Every Waking Moment (2006) #69 U.S.

* The Rainwater LP (2010) #111 U.S.

Other contributions

*Live at the World Café: Vol. 15 - Handcrafted (2002, World Café) - "If There's Love"

*Vocals on "Karma Police" from the Easy Star All Stars album "radiodread" which is a complete reggae/dub cover of Radiohead's "OK Computer".

*"Way Down In A Hole" - Tom Waits cover

References