Today celebrated Minneapolis singer/songwriter Reina Del Cid released "Bernadette," the first song from her new album MORSE CODE out October 4. Reina Del Cid's storytelling prowess shines on the song, which appears to feature a visitor from the artist's past. "It feels like I lost a friend, I find myself wondering, will she haunt my home again, oh my Bernadette."
Reina Del Cid notes that she was finishing up the album and the melody for "Bernadette" came to her and wouldn't leave her alone. "It was almost like a ghost named Bernadette was tapping me on the shoulder and demanding that her story be told. So I booked an extra day in the studio, brought the band back in, and we recorded this one on the fly with no rehearsals."
MORSE CODE was recorded at The Library recording studio in Minneaplis with frequent collaborator Toni Lindgren (guitar), Andy Mark (bass), Nate Babbs (drums) and Matt Patrick (organ), who also serves as producer. Reina Del Cid has amassed a devoted and engaged fanbase with her Youtube channel, Sunday Mornings with Reina Del Cid, which began in 2017. She has amassed over 30 million views and over 127,000 subscribers. Fans eagerly await her posts on Sunday mornings, which range from folk standards to obscure tracks to originals. Those fans turn out to catch her live as well as she performs in the US and abroad. A full list of tour dates is below, and additional shows will be announced soon.
Long before she adopted the moniker Reina del Cid and developed a music career online, Rachelle Cordova was a quiet bookish kid from Fargo, ND. In the summers she tended sugar beet crops with her dad, writing down lyrics and poems in a notebook on the long drives out to beet fields scattereed across North Dakota and Minnesota. As an honors student at University of Minnesota, she met Toni Lindgren, a skilled guitarist from Fond du lac, WI, and the two formed a musical bond that has spanned eight years, four studio albums, countless tours, and over a hundred Sunday Mornings videos.
1. Goodbye Butterfly
2. Bernadette
3. Sister Don't Cry
4. Morse Code
5. Come Back Over
6. No. 19
7. Common Man
8. Mile in Your Shoes
9. Rubik's Cube
10. All Time Low
11. Blue Sky Armageddon
12. Hold Me Before I'm
8/13: Berlin, Germany - Music & Frieden
8/14: Kobenhavn, Denmark - Drop Inn
8/15: Luneberg, Germany - Salon Hanson
8/16: Koln, Germany - Die Kantine
8/17: Amsterdam, Netherlands- Bitterzoet
8/18: Paris, France - The Bellevilloise
8/20: London, UK - Bush Hall
8/21: Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
8/22: Glasgow, UK - Stereo Cafe Bar
8/23: Belfast, UK - The Menagerie
8/24: Dublin, Ireland - The Workman's Club
9/20: Duluth, MN - Prove Gallery
9/27: Rhinelander, WI - Project North Festival
Photo courtesy of Reina Del Cid
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