- Rachel Blumberg
Rachel Blumberg is a
Portland, Oregon native, and luminary of many locally based indie bands, includingSissyface ,Boycrazy , Norfolk & Western,The Minders (briefly),M Ward andThe Decemberists .She spent most of 2007 lending her drumming and singing talents to the touring Omaha indie band Bright Eyes on the
Four Winds andCassadaga tour. In 2007 and early 2008 she recorded new records with Norfolk & Western,M. Ward , andJolie Holland .In addition to drums and singing she plays ukelele, banjo, accordion, piano, and other various stringed, electronic and/or percussion instruments.
She is also a visual artist and has shown her work in Portland, Oregon and Omaha, Nebraska. Notable musicians who own her work include
Jonathon Richman ,Matthew Caws ofNada Surf ,Jenny Conlee ofThe Decemberists , andLaura Veirs .Performing discography
Norfolk & Western
* "Centralia" (LP,
FILMguerrero , 2000)
* "Winter Farewell " (LP, FILMguerrero, 2002)
* "Dusk in Cold Parlours " (LP,Hush Records , 2003)
* "If You Were Born Overseas " (LP, self-released, 2005)
* "The Unsung Colony " (LP, Hush Records, 2006)Boycrazy
* "
Last Thursday +2 " (7",Magic Marker Records , 2000)
* "Foreign Words " (LP, Magic Marker Records, 2001)The Decemberists
* "
Castaways and Cutouts " (LP,Kill Rock Stars , 2002)
* "Her Majesty The Decemberists " (LP, Kill Rock Stars, 2003)
* "The Tain " (EP,Acuarela Discos , 2004)
* "Billy Liar" (Single, Rough Trade, 2004)
* "Picaresque" (LP, Kill Rock Stars, 2005)
* "16 Military Wives " (Single, Rough Trade, 2005)
* "Picaresquities " (EP, Kill Rock Stars, 2005)M Ward
* "Transistor Radio" (LP,
Merge Records , 2005)
* "Post-War " (LP, Merge Records, 2006)Douglas Shepherd
* "
Type Foundry Sessions EP " (EP, self-released, 2001)Corrina Repp
* "The Absent and the Distant " (LP,
Caldo Verde Records , 2006)he and Him
* "Volume One " (LP,
Merge Records , 2008)
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