ALESSANDRA ROSE
RODEOMOTHH
Wild Horses
The Big TakeoverAlthough this cover of "Wild Horses" is not featured on the record, it is inexorably linked with RODEOMOTHH. Rose had opened for Duff McKagan at an event in Seattle, and his encouragement that night helped convince her to record the album.
Once in a blue moon you come across an artist that stops you in your tracks. Manette, WA’s Alessandra Rose is blessed with an instrument of penetrating grace, her voice a siren song wrapped in silk and incense. Bright as a brass bell and edged with a warm glow of whiskey and woodsmoke, it is resonant, radiant, and absolutely hair-raising.
On her new LP RODEOMOTHH, Rose has built a work of expansive, beguiling, psych-tinged anthemic rock & roll. Whale-song leads howl up from the depths as rolling waves of organ crash against the rhythmic cliffside. Shimmering chords echo through distant canyons, while thundering percussion rumbles along hard-pack mountain roads. Taken as a whole, RODEOMOTHH is a masterwork. A heavyweight of a record, both intentional and exceptional is arrangement and execution, and ready to take its place in the canon of iconic recordings.
RODEOMOTHH was recorded at Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN, with Grammy-winning producer / engineer Mitch Dane (The Blind Boys of Alabama). In addition to Rose on vocals and acoustic guitar, the record features guitarist Courtlan Clement (Marc Bourssard), Kevin Whitsett (Sam Williams) on bass, drummer Paul Eckberg (Amy Grant), and Charlie Lowell (Jars of Clay) on piano and synth. It was mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White).
Thematically, the secret to RODEOMOTHH is hidden in its name. “It’s an anagram of motherhood” explains Rose. “Every song tells a part of my journey of being a mother.” Regardless of gender or parental status, these songs of unrestrained loving, free of consequence, speak to the soul. Indeed, the tales of falling in love and the work it takes to maintain that, of the pure joy of new life and the tearing sadness of life lost, are deeply, universally, human.
- SHOWS -
1/7 | Seattle WA | Tractor Tavern | 7pm |
1/27 | Bellingham WA | The Blue Room | 7pm |
3/16 | Vashon WA | Snapdragon | 7pm |
4/19 | Seattle WA | Barboza | 7pm |
6/14 | Yakima WA | Music in the Vines | 7pm |
7/20 | Seattle WA | Sunset Tavern | 9pm |
7/27 | Carnation WA | Timber Music Fest | 3:50pm |
8/17 | Bremerton WA | Rock the Dock | -- |
9/11 | Seattle WA | The High Dive | 8PM |
10/11 | Seattle WA | The Sunset Tavern | 8:30PM |
10/26 | Key Center WA | Madrona Music Fest | -- |
11/13 | Portland OR | The Showdown | 7PM |
11/15 | Tacoma WA | The New Frontier | 8PM |
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11/03 | Seattle WA | The Triple Door | 7pm |
10/19 | Seattle WA | The Sunset | 8pm |
8/27 | Bremerton WA | Kitsap Fair | 4pm |
8/26 | Bremerton WA | Kitsap Fair | 6:30pm |
8/25 | Fort Warden WA | Thing VIP Lounge | 6pm |
8/19 | Marymoor Park WA | CHOMP! | 12:20pm |
8/13 | Tokeland WA | Tokeland Woodfest | 1pm |
8/12 | Southworth WA | Tonyfest | 3pm |
8/5 | Bremerton WA | Taste of Kitsap | 3:30pm |
7/22 | Seattle WA | Bite of Seattle | 3pm |
7/01 | Shoreline WA | Darrell's Tavern | 8pm |
6/3 | Bremerton WA | Wayzgoose Kitsap | 1:30pm |
5/27 | Ballard WA | Conor Byrne | 8pm |
5/20 | Everett WA | Fisherman's Village Music Fest | 5pm |
4/2 | Vashon WA | Vashon Theatre | 5pm |
3/11 | Seattle WA | Neptune Theatre | 8pm |