Rachel Blumberg

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Rachel Blumberg is a Portland, Oregon native, and luminary of many locally based indie bands, including Sissyface, Boycrazy, Norfolk & Western, The Minders (briefly), M Ward and The Decemberists.

She spent most of 2007 lending her drumming and singing talents to the touring Omaha indie band Bright Eyes on the Four Winds and Cassadaga tour. In 2007 and early 2008 she recorded new records with Norfolk & Western, M. Ward, and Jolie 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 of Nada Surf, Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists, and Laura Veirs.

Contents 1 Performing discography 1.1 Norfolk & Western 1.2 Boycrazy 1.3 The Decemberists 1.4 M Ward 1.5 Douglas Shepherd 1.6 Corrina Repp 1.7 She and Him

[edit] Performing discography

[edit] 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)

[edit] Boycrazy

• Last Thursday +2 (7", Magic Marker Records, 2000)
• Foreign Words (LP, Magic Marker Records, 2001)

[edit] 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)

[edit] M Ward

• Transistor Radio (LP, Merge Records, 2005)
• Post-War (LP, Merge Records, 2006)

[edit] Douglas Shepherd

• Type Foundry Sessions EP (EP, self-released, 2001)

[edit] Corrina Repp

• The Absent and the Distant (LP, Caldo Verde Records, 2006)

[edit] She and Him

• Volume One (LP, Merge Records, 2008)

v • d • e The Decemberists Jenny Conlee · Chris Funk · Colin Meloy · John Moen · Nate Query Rachel Blumberg · Jesse Emerson · Petra Haden · Ezra Holbrook · David Langenes · Lisa Molinaro Studio albums Castaways and Cutouts · Her Majesty · Picaresque · The Crane Wife EPs 5 Songs · The Tain · Picaresqueties · Connect Sets · Live from SoHo Singles "Billy Liar" · "16 Military Wives" · "O Valencia!" · "The Perfect Crime #2"