Gorilla Man 7"
Released July 22nd, 2008
Released July 22nd, 2008
Dead Flowers
Released February 29th, 2008
Released February 29th, 2008
"Sinful Wishing Well"
Caitlin Rose performing Sinful Wishing Well from her album Shotgun Wedding available Summer 2008.
Excerpt from a live review during Next Big Nashville 2007...
Immediately it was clear: this girl is a star. She's still green—and for now, that's part of the charm—but the talent is blinding. A couple notes gave me goosebumps, not to mention the songwriting. Plus, she played "Carmelita" with her dad. How cool is that?
Immediately it was clear: this girl is a star. She's still green—and for now, that's part of the charm—but the talent is blinding. A couple notes gave me goosebumps, not to mention the songwriting. Plus, she played "Carmelita" with her dad. How cool is that?
Lee Stabert · Nashvillecream.com · Sep 2007
Caitlin listed as one of ten to see during Next Big Nashville 2007...
Caitlin Rose, sings like a teenager alone in her room, which is what she was. The 19-year-old's idiosyncratic delivery is bursting with a reedy emotionalism that is perfect for both ironic quips and big, quivering notes. Her quirky, country-tinged pop contains equal parts Bright Eyes and Loretta Lynn—both of them also know how to sound naked when they sing.
Rose's casual wordiness also owes a debt to the confessional singer-songwriter genre, but she tempers it with a clever vintage sensibility—there are moments on her upcoming LP (due out this fall on Theory 8) that could be mistaken for a lost country B-side—secret, spare and extra twangy.
There are plenty of excellent break-up songs—can the world ever have too many?—including the slow burner "Song for Rabbits" in which Rose reenacts the he said/she said of a comfortably fucked-up relationship: "Fall back into my desperate arms / Fall back into this old disaster / Because it's better than spending all your nights alone." Like most of the best, the young songwriter relies on the well-chosen detail: a T-shirt from an old love, the way you still check their favorite TV channels: "It's wrong how much I changed for you / I sit back and watch my channels change just how you want them to."
Another standout, "Heart of this Town," also spins its yarn within the confines of a passionate disaster. It's a country-style back-and-forth duet with Jeremy McAnulty (brother of De Novo Dahl's Joel) about cheatin', drinkin', fightin' and coming back home—each person daring the other actually to end it. The instrumentation is simultaneously old school—pedal steel, banjo—and just quirky enough to be modern: the occasional organ, chiming keyboard or horn section. And, all that aside, Rose is simply captivating. Her relationship to a singer like Lynn goes well beyond the way she swoops up into the big notes—it has more to do with her fragile yet brassy persona: the heartbroken woman who finds a way to sing about it and therefore earns a different kind of victory.
Caitlin Rose, sings like a teenager alone in her room, which is what she was. The 19-year-old's idiosyncratic delivery is bursting with a reedy emotionalism that is perfect for both ironic quips and big, quivering notes. Her quirky, country-tinged pop contains equal parts Bright Eyes and Loretta Lynn—both of them also know how to sound naked when they sing.
Rose's casual wordiness also owes a debt to the confessional singer-songwriter genre, but she tempers it with a clever vintage sensibility—there are moments on her upcoming LP (due out this fall on Theory 8) that could be mistaken for a lost country B-side—secret, spare and extra twangy.
There are plenty of excellent break-up songs—can the world ever have too many?—including the slow burner "Song for Rabbits" in which Rose reenacts the he said/she said of a comfortably fucked-up relationship: "Fall back into my desperate arms / Fall back into this old disaster / Because it's better than spending all your nights alone." Like most of the best, the young songwriter relies on the well-chosen detail: a T-shirt from an old love, the way you still check their favorite TV channels: "It's wrong how much I changed for you / I sit back and watch my channels change just how you want them to."
Another standout, "Heart of this Town," also spins its yarn within the confines of a passionate disaster. It's a country-style back-and-forth duet with Jeremy McAnulty (brother of De Novo Dahl's Joel) about cheatin', drinkin', fightin' and coming back home—each person daring the other actually to end it. The instrumentation is simultaneously old school—pedal steel, banjo—and just quirky enough to be modern: the occasional organ, chiming keyboard or horn section. And, all that aside, Rose is simply captivating. Her relationship to a singer like Lynn goes well beyond the way she swoops up into the big notes—it has more to do with her fragile yet brassy persona: the heartbroken woman who finds a way to sing about it and therefore earns a different kind of victory.
Lee Stabert · Nashville Scene · Sep 2007
Caitlin Rose writes songs, sings them and lives in Nashville, sometimes, all at the same time.
theory 8 will release her debut record, a seven song EP, produced by Andrija Tokic, that contains five original songs and two covers, "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" originally performed by Patsy Cline and the title track,"Dead Flowers" by The Rolling Stones.
The Dead Flowers EP will be officially released in January or 2008. It will be a predecessor to the debut LP, produced by Joel J. Dahl and Jeremy Ferguson, also to be released by theory 8 records in the Spring of 2008.
Caitlin writes songs that make you want to fight.
We're serious.
Official Site:
myspace.com/caitlinrosesongs
myspace.com/caitlinrosesongs