The title track 'Rainmaker' is a gentle acoustic ballad with beautiful chord changes framing a rather whimsical melody - moody and atmospheric in a throwaway sort of sense. next up is 'Give 'em enough Rope' - sidewalk skank providing a pltform for a scatty life, the universe and ain't the government awful rap. Mark's music has a sense of rootlessness and unease underpinning the apparently happy go lucky choruses and loose rhymic structures of numbers like 'crawling from the wreckage' - swampy blues with a twist in the chord sequence. Mark's observations on life continue with 'Life on the Road' complete with a pretend trumpet solo, what more could you want! 'What a Drag' is so sweet it's almost psychotic, the Talking Heads-ish 'Living in the Country' has a country feel with a similar, if more delicate sense of irony. Mark's music gives you a sense that life's either always been this way or that you're so confused you'd given up worrying anyway. Thew lyrics of songs like 'Night and Day' don't go anywhere in particular, because there's no particular place to go - the zen ambivalence blues. This offering concludes with a gently resigned streetcorner rant, 'Have a good Day' - Mark's the boy who couldn't be bothered to ask for more 'cos he knew what it might entail. 'take a godknows pill and check out the worlds ills' - 'Jazz' is the MAK's manifesto underpinned with reptillian gutter jazz-blues.

'Rainmaker' is a very personal observation on the state of the world couched in a reluctant streetwise jazz blues groove. Mark Kelly's songs sink in gently like silage over a freshly ploughed field.
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