Rich Creamy Paint
Rich Creamy Paint
Genres: power pop
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About Rich Creamy Paint
Dip into Rich Creamy Paint and you'll come out feeling fine. Warm and fuzzy yet breezy cool. Fond of the past, positive toward the future, and pretty darned pleased with the here and now. Rich Creamy Paint is a band -- a boy, basically. Named after Rich Painter, it's an intriguingly vivid shade of rock: clear, bright, blissed-out, and unpretentious. Rich Painter is someone who's not trying to be anyone he's not (even if, given his age, he's still figuring out who he is). "I'm a real honest guy," Rich says. "This album is my life up to this point." Now 19, Rich has lived the life of a typical teen with a twist or two. Like a songwriting knack natural as grass growing. It just happens -- has since Rich was around 11. He'd do these shows at school in Jacksonville, Florida. He'd make these albums (OK, tapes, but eventually CDs), playing all the instruments; he'd give them to friends, crushes, and his Uncle John in Nashville, a musician himself. Uncle John (that's John Painter, half of the offbeat duo Fleming and John and a multi-instrumentalist/producer who's worked with Sixpence None the Richer and Ben Folds Five) was impressed enough to start mentoring Rich. The songs that just happened started happening more frequently, more fluently; they happened better. So much better that they turned into Rich's debut. "The sessions we did at John's house were good," Rich says. "I went back and sang some vocals again but we kept all the other stuff." Earnest adolescent emotion conveyed with pure, simple charm -- that's the proverbial nutshell on Rich Creamy Paint. The crunchy-sweet rumble of "Telephone Number," the guitar squawk and spark of "Hangin' Out," the clock-tick drumming of head-bopper "A.D.D.," the chiming "High School," and the joyous light-touch harmony of "You Make Me Laugh" fulfill the promise of immediacy, sparkle, and innocence contained in the song titles. (What's in Rich Painter's record collection? If you guessed Matthew Sweet, Ben Folds Five, Weezer, and Built to Spill, you guessed right!) So what does a one-man band do when it's time to go on tour? He gets a little help from his friends. Mark Capon (bass and backing vocals) and Rich have been friends since the ripe old age of eight. They met on the YMCA basketball team, attended classes for the gifted together, and by junior high school had formed their first band, Infestation. When they were freshmen at Stanton College Preparatory school, their entrepreneurial spirit reared its head, so they recorded their first album in Rich's house and sold it to classmates. Mark was also an accomplice in some of Rich's other bands, such as Nintendo Power, Space, and Beever. Rich met drummer Josh Blanton when both were just tots. Josh's dad, Jeff Blanton, played bass in Rich's dad's rock band. Josh's mom, Susan, was the piano player in the band and later imparted her knowledge of the ivories to Rich when he was just five years old. Rich passed down to Josh his treasured child-sized Remo drum kit, which paved the way for Josh to join Rich and Mark in Rich's next band, Nintendo Power. Matt Greene met Rich on the black top -- they became friends while on the seventh grade basketball team at James Weldon Johnson Middle School. Matt introduced Rich to Radiohead's Pablo Honey that year and Rich has respected him ever since. Matt joined Mark and Rich in a three-piece band unofficially dubbed Fretboard and Tom Tom and later played in Beever as well. Keyboardist Mindy Woolson came into the mix a little later than the rest. She and Rich met at Nashville's Belmont University, which is famed for its music program. Rich says of the players he finally put together, "I wanted more professional musicians, but I didn't want a bunch of dorky older guys. They're all trained in music, but I always play by ear." Cool, because book-learned or not, "play" is the operative word when it comes to Rich Creamy Paint. Which is, after all, the whole point. "I want to be a positive influence, take your mind off the negative," he offers. "I want people to get happy." Color your world with Rich Creamy Paint.
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