Fresh off of an 18-date tour and performing with Bruce Springsteen at Asbury Park's Sea Hear Now Festival in September, indie rocker / multi-instrumentalist Rachel Ana Dobken plays Brooklyn Bowl this Friday in support of The Parlor Mob.
On sharing the stage with Springsteen during Sea Hear Now's pre-fest kickoff party, Dobken says, "I was invited to play with Danny Clinch and Bruce Springsteen the night before at legendary Asbury Park club the Stone Pony. Danny and I spoke with Bruce before this special jam and we all agreed to do a cover of Little Walter's 'My Babe.’ To say it was a thrill and an honor is an understatement. Let’s just say I ended up sleeping 3 hours that night and waking up to play the festival in a blissful trance."
Dobken’s new album Acceptance was co-produced by Erik Romero of The Front Bottoms and Paul Ritchie of The Parlor Mob in conjunction with Dobken. The record features guest appearances from Blind Melon co-founder & guitarist Rogers Stevens as well as Preservation Hall Jazz Band saxophonist Clint Maedgen. It pulls from indie rock, psych and soul influences—think Angel Olsen, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Beach House, boygenius, Rayland Baxter—while it charts a journey of authentic self-discovery
“Acceptance is a culmination of frustration, struggle, yearning and beauty that led me to the understanding that—whatever we are searching for, whomever’s love and approval we desire, whatever we seek on our journey—all answers come from within. From accepting and loving ourselves wholly for who we are, darkness and all. Accepting the circumstances of our realities, embracing them and leaning into them. There’s a comfort and a beauty in that. Acceptance always to what is and will be.”
Dobken (drums, guitar, vocals, keys, producer) is a powerhouse musician. Described as “My Morning Jacket meets Amy Winehouse,” she’s been featured at Relix, New Noise, Chorus FM, American Songwriter, Glide, WXPN, The Pop Break, Guitar Girl, RIFF, Broken Color, Last Day Deaf, Alt77, Grateful Web, The Aquarian Weekly & more. She worked closely with iconic music photographer Danny Clinch as music director of his Transparent Gallery in her hometown of Asbury Park, N.J., and has shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon, Rayland Baxter, Blind Melon, Incubus’ Ben Kenney, Robert Randolph, G. Love, Nicole Atkins, Tash Neal and many more.
