Raines took a job outside of music that assuaged his hunger, but never quenched his thirst for making music, and as soon as he could get back into music, he did so. But Raines' interests had shifted to orchestral music, and his MSR Classics' CD, Robert Raines: The Return of Odysseus represents the first fruits of his renewed musical labors and, ironically, Raines first recording, as none of the things he did "back in the day" were ever issued.